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Cybersecurity
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The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said about half of the nation's data would be at risk if the Education Department was hacked.
January 07, 2016 -
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Cloud, cybersecurity and agile development —those are what federal chief information officers and their staffs will be dealing with in 2016. But all three fronts are changing. The Professional Services Council recently completed research interviews on the 2016 federal IT trends. Heading the effort was Kim Pack, the vice president of business capture specialists Wolf Den Associates. She told Federal Drive with Tom Temin how the whole forecast is put together.
January 07, 2016 -
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The Army has issued a request for information, asking cloud vendors to describe their capabilities in more than 30 separate areas that could help it move its applications from government data centers to modern commercial hosting environments.
January 06, 2016 -
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Federal News Radio counts down our 10 most-read Defense and Intelligence Community stories from 2015.
January 05, 2016 -
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The Director of National Intelligence will soon ask agencies to use other sources when they review existing security clearance holders. Legislation slipped into the 2016 omnibus requires that agencies create an enhanced personnel security program. Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what she found and what else is hiding in the 2016 omnibus
January 04, 2016 -
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Rob Coen is director of the NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, or NITAAC. He oversees two big governmentwide acquisition contracts that have proven popular over the years. Coen told Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller that existing contracts could easily meet your requirements and those of IT and cybersecurity reform. Those requirements were recently shared with Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 30, 2015 -
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For the Transportation Security Administration, the 30-day cyber sprint was an awakening. The governmentwide effort didn’t just refocus TSA on securing its data and networks, but gave the agency an opportunity to make up for budget shortfalls. Federal News Radio's Executive Editor Jason Miller stopped by the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with news from TSA's Chief Information Officer Stephen Rice on how the agency used the cyber sprint to its advantage.
December 30, 2015 -
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The Secret Service has been running the National Computer Forensics Institute for years. But a bill now in Congress would expand its mission. Its sponsor, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) explains to Federal Drive with Tom Temin why he thinks the institute's expertise should be shared with law enforcement at all levels of government.
December 30, 2015 -
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In Wednesday's federal headlines, the White House released a cyber deterrence policy after repeated calls from Congress to do so.
December 30, 2015 Austin Adams, vice president at Alfresco explains how his company can help agencies with content and business process management. December 29, 2015
December 29, 2015-
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The IRS has too many varying authentication methods and lacks a service-wide strategy for its growing number of online taxpayer applications, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
December 29, 2015 Tune into Fed Access to hear Stratfor's Sim Tack and Tristan Reed discuss the civil war in Syria, the Syrian refugee crisis, and how governments and businesses are doing in protecting themselves from cyber attacks. December 25, 2015
December 25, 2015-
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At 887 pages, the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act includes several hidden pieces of legislation on funding and stipulations for the IRS, and additional information on cybersecurity threat sharing.
December 23, 2015 -
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Over the next few months, sailors throughout the Navy’s fleet can expect to see new consequences when they violate the service’s cybersecurity policies. Troy Johnson is the director of the newly established Navy Cybersecurity division. In this excerpt from the latest edition of On DoD shared with Federal Drive with Tom Temin, he tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu, accountability measures are just one thing the Navy is working on to drive home the fact that cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility.
December 23, 2015
