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Cybersecurity
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The problem with most data breaches is that too often, IT and security staffs only find out about them long after the damage has been done and the hackers have moved on to other soft targets, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
July 30, 2015 -
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved legislation Wednesday to enhance agencies' ability to protect themselves from cyber attacks.
July 29, 2015 -
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As the recent attacks against the Office of Personnel Management and Census Bureau show, no one is safe from being hacked. But sometimes the goal isn't to steal information. Sometimes it's to disrupt an organization's Web traffic. They're called denial of service attacks. Rodney Caudle is the director of information security at NIC. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more about DDoS attacks, and how common they still are.
July 29, 2015 -
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The Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command will be in charge of hiring a contractor to provide identity-protection services to victims of the breach on the Office of Personnel Management's background-investigation database. NAVSEA will issue an RFQ early next week. GSA was supposed to send it out this week.
July 28, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management is in post-mortem stage on Capitol Hill. Members and their staffers are either knowledgable about technology issues or learning. Parham Eftekhari is co-founder and senior fellow of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology. Mark Seward is a fellow at ICIT. They tell In Depth with Francis Rose about their group's analysis of the OPM cyber breach that they sent to to members of Congress and their staffs.
July 28, 2015 -
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Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, told In Depth with Francis Rose that he's pleasantly surprised by acting OPM Director Beth Cobert's outreach efforts.
July 28, 2015 -
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Hackers have no trouble innovating and creating new ways to disrupt systems, but the security industry struggles to keep up. That's according to Cisco's 2015 Midyear Security Report. It analyzes many of the industry's intersecting challenges, and provides updates on some of the most compelling threats. John Stewart is the Senior Vice President and Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cisco Systems. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to sort through the report's findings, and discuss the current state of the security industry.
July 28, 2015 -
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The head of U.S. Cyber Command says he wants to create an effective early warning system for cyberspace. But to do it effectively, he says he needs more voluntary sharing of cyber threat information between the federal government and commercial companies.
July 28, 2015 -
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The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected an amendment that would give the Office of Personnel Management an extra $37 million to make IT upgrades sooner rather than later. Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) offered the amendment. She said OPM needs to fix its IT infrastructure immediately and described the amendment as "emergency funding". Zal Azmi is president and chief operating officer for IMTAS Technologies and former chief information officer at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that agencies need to rethink cybersecurity entirely.
July 27, 2015 -
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For now, former Deputy OMB Director Beth Cobert is in charge at the Office of Personnel Management. She is already talking to congressional leaders about the way forward for OPM and she's making a good first impression on them. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) is the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that the outreach from Cobert is rather uncommon.
July 27, 2015 -
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The long and twisting road that is the Homeland Security Department’s continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program got a nice jolt earlier this month. The Government Accountability Office resolved a bid protest that has impacted the implementation of new cyber tools and services.
July 27, 2015 -
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The commander of US Cyber Command says he wants to create an effective early warning system for cyberspace – potentially ringing alarm bells when foreign adversaries are preparing attacks on government, or even private networks. But to do it, he says he needs more voluntary sharing of cyber threat information between the federal government and commercial companies. More from Federal News Radio’s DoD reporter Jared Serbu.
July 24, 2015 -
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Aileen Black, host of Women of Washington, counts down the week’s top federal stories with Francis Rose.
July 24, 2015 -
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UPDATED: Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) joins a growing list of Washington-area lawmakers who are looking at whether Congress could pay for the costs from the OPM breach under emergency appropriations.
July 24, 2015
