Cybersecurity
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Only 20 percent of the Army's cyber teams are made up of civilians. The Army is analyzing whether that's the right ratio in an environment where every uniformed servicemember is expected to be able to deploy to combat.
October 09, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report from the Homeland Security Department says large agricultural operations face cyber threats like data theft, and even destruction of large-scale farm equipment.
October 09, 2018 -
Zulfikar Ramsan, chief technology officer at RSA Security joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss innovation concepts, handling large data sets, and artificial intelligence. October 9, 2018
October 09, 2018 -
Jason Gray, the Education Department’s chief information officer, said IT modernization is all about making both the policy and the infrastructure more flexible, agile and customer focused.
October 05, 2018 -
The Department of the Navy is going all in on the National Defense Strategy and pushing everything else to the side.
October 05, 2018 -
The Homeland Security Department is excited by the prospect that the National Protection and Programs Directorate could be renamed and restructured as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency following a vote in the Senate on Wednesday.
October 04, 2018 -
National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has questioned the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) method for reporting customer service satisfaction, calling it misleading.
October 04, 2018 -
Steven Dillingham, the Trump administration's pick to head up the Census Bureau, just 18 months out from the 2020 decennial count, faces the challenge of overseeing the first census that households can respond to online.
October 04, 2018 -
IARPA's chief of technology transition described challenges to going from legacy systems to cloud infrastructure. Agencies are trying to reduce their infrastructure footprint.
October 02, 2018 -
The military is changing its training and recruitment standards to fit cyber operators.
October 02, 2018 -
INSA praises new plans of action from DoD and the White House that could help send a clear message to potential attackers that cyberthreats will be deterred in real-time.
October 02, 2018 -
NIST wants to make sure agencies understand the added challenges of cybersecurity for IoT. That's why it's producing a new guidance document on the subject.
September 28, 2018 -
The IRS fights to stay at least one step ahead of the fraudsters that use stolen taxpayer credentials to file tax returns. But the frequency of data breaches gives adversaries more ammunition.
September 27, 2018 -
The Department of Housing and Urban Development became the second agency to get help in upgrading its technology and financial management systems under the White House's marquee IT modernization effort.
September 26, 2018 -
Geoff Orazem, managing partner of Easten Foundry, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how agencies of the federal government can use Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to solve complex problems. September 25, 2018
September 25, 2018