Cybersecurity
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Chi Kang, deputy director for Operations in NOAA’s Cyber Security Division, talked about how the agency made the pandemic shift to large-scale telework and how its modernizing legacy network systems.
September 22, 2020 -
This week on Federal Tech Talk, Nicholas Chaillan, The Air Force's Chief Software Officer, joins host John Gilroy to discuss Platform One and Cloud One, and why they are creative and innovative approaches to improving software for the service.
September 21, 2020 -
Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee say roughly 17,000 community care providers were also potential victims of the VA data breach, which the department made public earlier this week. VA on Friday said just 13 of those providers were truly impacted by the breach, and six had payments diverted.
September 17, 2020 -
The intelligence community expects information warfare to be the next big disrupter as the cyber domain becomes more contested, and industry becomes part of the national security attack surface.
September 17, 2020 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the federal government’s cybersecurity threat advisor, and the FBI, its cyber enforcement agency, are improving lines of communication between government and industry and making it harder for hackers to do their jobs.
September 17, 2020 -
Ty Schieber, the chairman of the CMMC-AB, and Mark Berman, the chairman of the communications committee, are leaving the CMMC Advisory Board unexpectedly.
September 16, 2020 -
As technical director of DISA’s Infrastructure Directorate, Bryon Doyle said his job is to have an oversight of the organization’s architecture.
September 15, 2020 -
The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act would NIST to best practices for device security. The Office of Management and Budget would create guidance for agencies to meet or exceed those standards.
September 15, 2020 -
The focus may be about to turn from whether its supply chains are cyber secure to how reliant contractors are on foreign sources of supply.
September 15, 2020 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs has identified 46,000 veterans as potential victims of a recent cybersecurity breach involving one of its online applications.
September 14, 2020 -
John Harrison, senior cyber security solutions architect at Criterion joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the cybersecurity challenges that federal IT officials face during the Covid-19 pandemic.
September 14, 2020 -
Agencies early in the coronavirus pandemic scrambled to scale up their IT infrastructure to handle mandatory telework and enable secure access to networks remotely.
September 14, 2020 -
Federal contractors have sensed a certain sluggishness in the government's pace of awarding contracts during the pandemic. Now, a review of this phenomenon finds it's more pronounced in the intelligence community.
September 11, 2020 -
The President Management Fellows (PMF) Program is planning to offer its upcoming class the chance to take a cybersecurity aptitude and attitude test, with the goal placing high-potential finalists in program analyst positions at participating agencies.
September 10, 2020 -
Education Department CISO Steven Hernandez said the council wanted to plan for the next five to 10 years of agency network priorities and how to prepare for an emergency.
September 08, 2020