Cybersecurity
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The first pathfinders are expected to be announced in 'the next few days,' just after rules that pave the way for CMMC took effect.
December 03, 2020 -
Blockchain in recent years generated plenty of hype in the federal contracting community, but technology never resulted in many agencies moving forward with the technology.
December 02, 2020 -
The Defense Department has established a concept it calls the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture. It's supposed to govern investment decisions and make sure systems across the military services work together.
December 02, 2020 -
Eric Trexler, vice president of Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure at Forcepoint, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss how the federal goverment's cybersecurity efforts are being affected by the pandemic.
December 02, 2020 -
As the definition of a job in the field continues to grow and evolve, agencies like the FBI have been forced to get creative in how they're recruiting new cyber talent.
December 01, 2020 -
Traditional approaches need to evolve and agencies, and really all organizations, need to improve their resiliency to not only survive a cyber attack, but come out the other side better for it.
December 01, 2020 -
With a vaccine still on the horizon, and a presidential transition now underway, projections on contract spending for 2021 are murkier than usual.
November 30, 2020 -
This week on Federal Tech Talk, Marlin McFate, CTO Public Sector at Riverbed Technology, joins host John Gilroy to talk about network visibility and the results of a recent survey issued by his company.
November 27, 2020 -
Members have had online hearings and meetings by the thousands. But the only remote voting allowed was by proxy.
November 25, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Defense's head of cyber policy is warning that the Pentagon's cyber force is still not enough to protect the U.S. and its allies.
November 24, 2020 -
This week on Federal Tech Talk, Enrique Oti, chief technology officer for Second Front Systems, joins host John Gilroy to talk about innovation in the federal government with a focus on national security.
November 19, 2020 -
A veterans group has teamed up with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to help a particularly vulnerable group of veterans identify disinformation and stop its spread.
November 19, 2020 -
While the election appears to have impacted fewer state CIOs, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ membership continues its “churn” according to executive director Doug Robinson.
November 19, 2020 -
The president ousted Christopher Krebs, a Trump appointee and director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in a tweet saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate.”
November 17, 2020 -
A long serving chief information officer at both the EPA and NASA, Renee Wynn recently retired. But she's hardly out of the picture. Among her post-federal pursuits, she has become a fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration.
November 17, 2020