Cybersecurity
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Jason Gray, the Education Department’s CIO and the co-chairman of the CIO Council’s IT Workforce Committee, said there are four main goals for the upcoming governmentwide hiring fair.
October 20, 2017 -
The Senate Armed Services Committee is considering a subpoena for White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce.
October 20, 2017 -
Last year, nearly all of the 24 big departments and agencies had problems with cybersecurity in all of the control areas, according to a new GAO report.
October 19, 2017 -
Amid a new push to "accelerate" commercial cloud adoption, the Defense Department is in talks with commercial industry to find ways to smooth its cloud security approval process.
October 19, 2017 -
RSA Senior Director Peter Tran encourages agencies to take a risk-based approach to cybersecurity.
October 18, 2017 -
Federal websites now enjoy visits from at least 44 percent of Americans. Yet there's a credibility problem when it comes to protection of personal information.
October 18, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Management and Budget wants agencies to use the new approach for measuring cyber risk to see where they stand for 2018.
October 18, 2017 -
The IRS stopped more than 880,000 confirmed ID theft returns in calendar 2016.
October 17, 2017 -
GAO found that most CFO Act agencies still have major weaknesses in information security areas like access control, and have not implemented hundreds of GAO and IG recommendations.
October 17, 2017 -
For cities around the world, the demand for cybersecurity products and services has produced a mini economic boom.
October 17, 2017 How is technology changing the way government operates? Find out when Dcode Founder & CEO Meagan Metzger, and Thresher CEO Rebecca Fair join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk. October 17, 2017
October 16, 2017-
The Homeland Security Department issued its sixth Binding Operational Directive telling agencies to implement new security protocols.
October 16, 2017 -
The ruling only addresses the year-long contract, not the most recent short-term bridge contract between Equifax and IRS.
October 16, 2017 -
Cyber attacks travel at the speed of light and nothing the military has can keep up, least of all the acquisition process.
October 16, 2017 -
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) estimates the cost to implement NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 to be in the millions.
October 16, 2017