Cybersecurity
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DHS directed agencies on Jan. 22 to take four steps to protect against DNS tampering attacks, including adding multi-factor authentication to servers and software.
January 28, 2019 -
Last year the Senate passed a protection bill but nothing happened in the House. Now Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) has co-sponsored a new bill he hopes will have better prospects.
January 25, 2019 -
People in financial trouble can be cybersecurity risks. Take those 800,000 federal employees on furlough or working without pay. Aubrey Turner, from Optiv Security, joined Federal Drive to discuss those risks.
January 25, 2019 -
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said he hoped for more bipartisan support in 2019 for major issues like cybersecurity and transportation.
January 25, 2019 -
As cyber and supply chain issues continue to evolve, the success of the federal procurement system is contingent upon the government’s ability to secure and defend the nation’s digital information infrastructure.
January 25, 2019 -
The Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), an IT firm that gets about 50 percent of its work from DoD, says its bills are starting to add up due to the partial government shutdown.
January 25, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, agency leaders are being asked to provide a list of what programs will be effected if the current partial government shutdown goes into March and April.
January 24, 2019 -
Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey said velocity and agility requirements are causing agencies to change their technology delivery models through cloud and hyper-convergence.
January 23, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Homeland Security Department says a series of incidents have tampered with agencies domain name systems (DNS) on their websites.
January 23, 2019 -
Michael Friedrich, chief architect at Cyxtera Technologies – Federal, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how authentication is being using to protect high value data sets from cyber attacks. January 21, 2019
January 21, 2019 -
Several agency CIOs and IT executives told Federal News Network that their systems and data are well protected, but the loss of the contractor workforce could be devastating.
January 21, 2019 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement highlights provisions in the Multiple Award Schedules program for federal customers that provide a readily available, streamlined process mirroring the commercial market through its thousands of contracts that provide tens-of-millions of items.
January 18, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, two senators asked the Transportation Security Administration for its plan if staffing shortages and call outs continue.
January 18, 2019 -
National Guard cyber teams are helping with police networks, elections and national missions.
January 18, 2019 -
Margie Graves, the deputy chief information officer of the government at the Office of Management and Budget, said the administration is trying to identify innovative approaches for recruiting and training IT workers.
January 17, 2019