Cybersecurity
-
GSA and DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told agencies that the Zoom for Government platform, which runs on a government community cloud and has received a Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) moderate level approval under the cloud security program known as FedRAMP, is an agency’s best option.
April 08, 2020 -
Cybersecurity threats have spawned from those taking advantage of the pandemic. Federal Drive got an update on the issue from Crowdstrike's James Yeager.
April 08, 2020 -
Geoff Orazem, managing partner at Eastern Foundry, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how the Small Business Innovation Research initiative compares with other vehicles, and the three levels for SBIR participation.
April 06, 2020 -
The House, after some initial reluctance, is taking steps for members and their staff to work remotely more easily during the coronavirus pandemic.
April 06, 2020 -
Agencies expected to award 58 task orders under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract by March 31, but instead awarded 10, putting the $50 billion program on a path similar to the last telecommunications transition debacle.
April 06, 2020 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will release a telework-focused temporary Trusted Internet Connections 3.0 directive to give agency networks some relief as more employees are working remotely.
April 03, 2020 -
On this edition of CyberChat, host Sean Kelley discusses with Ronald Nielson what it takes to develop a mature cybersecurity posture.
March 30, 2020 -
Renee Wynn, the NASA chief information officer, is retiring after about 30 years in government and is leaving the space agency on track to fix long-standing IT governance challenges.
March 27, 2020 -
With seemingly everyone teleworking, the only way people can meet is through some awkward application or another. Teleconferencing can also mean fresh cybersecurity challenges.
March 27, 2020 -
The Defense Department signed its agreement with the CMMC Accreditation Board, kicking off the training for third-party assessors and the release of the necessary documents to help vendors prepare to meet the standards.
March 27, 2020 -
In May, DHS awarded its new CDM dashboard contract which was intended to bring better scalability, performance, visualization and analytics to agencies.
March 26, 2020 -
If nothing else, the long-running Huawei situation shows the importance of considering the supply chain when it comes to cybersecurity.
March 26, 2020 -
The Defense Health Agency looks to collapse multiple legacy health IT networks used by military hospitals and clinics into a single modern network.
March 26, 2020 -
Nebraska's CIO Ed Toner uses a unique centralized risk mitigation and compliance team comprised of former agency personnel from compliance, cyber, security privacy and related fields.
March 26, 2020 -
Aside from technical issues like capacity, federal IT and cybersecurity officials say management and workplace culture issues remain a persistent challenge in maintaining regular operations through telework.
March 24, 2020