Cybersecurity
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In the last couple of weeks, GAO has reissued reminders on open recommendations. It's a long list.
May 14, 2020 -
Public Technology Institute's Alan Shark described the coronavirus pandemic's impact on local governments operations, challenges and success stories.
May 14, 2020 -
The coronavirus pandemic multiplied the need for agency wide telework capabilities and that also means more security concerns. Venice Goodwine, chief information security officer for the Agriculture Department, said her agency took a phased approach with capacity tests across different mission areas.
May 12, 2020 -
A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked the Defense Department for more details about its plans to continue to provide a technology and cyber leadership program after the Pentagon ended its 30-year-old CIO development curriculum.
May 12, 2020 -
This week on Federal Tech Talk, Stuart Itkin, vice president of Marketing and Product Management at Exostar, joins host John Gilroy to discuss a new approach to acquisition called Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).
May 12, 2020 -
The Department of Homeland Security has created a new, derived alternative credential for both new and existing employees and contractors who need access to the agency's networks but can't physically visit a DHS facility to replace or get a new personal identity verification (PIV) card during the coronavirus pandemic.
May 11, 2020 -
Just as there's no shortage of cybersecurity threats there's no shortage of companies and products to try and help you counteract them.
May 08, 2020 -
Suzette Kent, the federal chief information officer, said nearly a year to the date of launching the new shared services strategy, the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is armed with a strategy and $25 million.
May 08, 2020 -
Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Chris Bogdan joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to talk about what the federal government is doing to protect data that originates from satellites.
May 04, 2020 -
GSA and DHS award a $276 million contract to CGI-Federal to modernize the current shared services platform and add new capabilities for small and micro agencies under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program.
May 04, 2020 -
Bill Marion, who left federal service after 28 years including the last four years as the deputy chief information officer of the Air Force, said the next deputy CIO will have a long list of priorities including continuing network modernization, transforming risk management and ensuring the service has a digital workforce.
May 04, 2020 -
The Army got into trouble with an important cybersecurity contract when it made a classic mistake of not awarding it on the basis it said it would.
April 30, 2020 -
NASCIO's midyear conference will go virtual May 4-5. Executive Director Doug Robinson explained developments and rationale resulting from the coronavirus, plus highlights from agenda and schedule of events.
April 30, 2020 -
The Defense Department has not one but three cyber hygiene initiatives. But they're incomplete and no one is reporting what's going on.
April 29, 2020 -
Deputy chief information security officers at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office say they are in the middle of expanding and maturing their approaches to cybersecurity.
April 24, 2020