Cybersecurity
Lou Giglio, Dan Beaman and Mark Flournoy, managers of Federal Systems Integration for F5 Newtorks, join host John Gilroy to discuss how to inspect encrypted traffic, increase speed, and move security tools from appliances to the virtual world. May 30, 2017
May 28, 2017-
President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 budget request suggests personnel cuts at the majority of the 24 largest federal agencies. But the Homeland Security Department is one of the few that could undergo a bit of a hiring spree next year.
May 25, 2017 -
The players have taken their seats. They're tuning their instruments. Now where's the Trump administration's IT conductor?
May 25, 2017 -
Internal Revenue Service watchdogs say the agency could do more in terms of taxpayer services if it had more human and financial resources. The White House proposed a fiscal 2018 budget of $10.9 billion, a cut of roughly $300 million from 2017 funding levels.
May 25, 2017 -
Avi Bender, NTIS director, says his agency's partnership with the private sector is opening doors for other agencies to solve data service issues, in part by helping them realize what problem it is that they're actually trying to solve.
May 24, 2017 -
President Donald Trump’s budget request sent to Congress May 23 calls for an increase of $1.6 billion for federal technology programs and projects.
May 24, 2017 -
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May 23, 2017 John Jolly, president and CEO at Syncurity, joins host John Gilroy to explain how his company can help federal IT professions avoid ransomware attacks like "WannaCry". May 23, 2017
May 22, 2017-
The Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Homeland Security led a much more coordinated and informed defense against the WannaCry cyber attack that began May 12.
May 22, 2017 -
Kevin Cox, the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program manager, said 11 agencies have dashboards in place and more are expected to come online in the next few months.
May 18, 2017 -
Lawmakers are pushing key Defense Department nominees to begin considering how to put a comprehensive cyber policy in place.
May 18, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, following the massive WannaCry ransomware cyber attack, a group of senators introduced legislation to set up a board to regulate disclosures of hardware and software vulnerabilities discovered by federal agencies.
May 18, 2017 -
In the wake of a major cybersecurity incident last week, federal information technology officials on Wednesday said the balancing act between cyber hygiene compliance and workforce morale remains an ongoing problem.
May 17, 2017 -
The government operates a panoply of operating systems on its end points and servers. Never mind Windows 7. You can still find XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003.
May 17, 2017 -
The Government Accountability Office's two-year assessment found there are gaping vulnerabilities where federal policy and industry standards haven't kept up with the developing technology.
May 16, 2017