Cybersecurity
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With upgrades in full swing across the federal government, Vasili Ikonomidis, the service desk program manager at NetCentrics Corp., tells you what you need to know for an easy transition to the new operating system.
April 03, 2017 -
Gary Schmitt, director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how a big information leak at the CIA is still possible in the post-Edward Snowden era.
April 03, 2017 -
The Office of Personnel Management didn't have a decision-making policy in place to help it decide when and how to offer identity theft and credit monitoring services to victims of the 2015 cyber breaches. More than a year later, the agency still doesn't have a plan.
March 31, 2017 -
Kyo Dolan, assistant to the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Critical Systems Protection Program, talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how the agency builds cyber threats into its protection plans.
March 31, 2017 -
U.S. Transportation Command uses a lot of civilian businesses, but are their networks harming national security?
March 30, 2017 -
The Department of Homeland Security told Congress Tuesday that it’s seeing significant dividends from a new legal authority Congress granted the department in 2014: the ability to force other federal agencies to take concrete steps to improve their cybersecurity posture.
March 29, 2017 -
WikiLeaks has a lot in common with lightning. It can strike anywhere, and doesn't discriminate. When it does, organizations know they've been zapped good. Yet each cybersecurity loss gives or should give some insight in how to improve your defenses. What potential lessons learned from this latest case, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Jeff Pollard, principal cybersecurity analyst at Forrester Research.
March 29, 2017 -
Organization, accountability and a willingness to partner with industry are necessary to improving federal IT acquisition.
March 29, 2017 -
It's President Donald Trump's turn to step up to the federal technology plate. Will he hit a home run or strike out?
March 28, 2017 GSA FedRAMP director Matt Goodrich joins QTS's David McOmber, CSRA's Seth Abrams and host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how FedRAMP's ambitious new goals will help federal agencies transition to the cloud. March 28, 2017
March 27, 2017-
The General Services Administration will create a new special item number under Schedule 70 for approved products under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program as part of the effort to add flexibility to the initiative.
March 27, 2017 -
Retired Gen. Keith Alexander, the former head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, told House Homeland Security Committee members they should go further than just creating a new cyber agency within DHS.
March 27, 2017 -
Nation Analytics founder Brian Friel and Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal business Partners, join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the state of the contracting landscape. March 27, 2017
March 26, 2017 -
Advocating data center consolidation and optimization as a priority could be a tough sell to the Donald Trump administration, but the federal IT community has courted the White House by framing the issue within the narrative of the president's soon-to-emerge cybersecurity executive order.
March 23, 2017 -
This week, Women of Washington hosts sit down with Jill Vaughan, former CTO of the Transportation Security Administration, and current senior adviser to GSIS. Vaughan talked about her journey to the top of the TSA and gave her advice for leadership within the federal government.
March 22, 2017