Cybersecurity
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If anything, federal agency life (not to mention “real life”) since 2020 has taught us that we can’t predict what is to come. However, we can always look back and take away lessons learned to help inform future decisions and direct long-term strategies.
March 21, 2022 -
DoD's new JADC2 implementation plan is still classified, but signs of it will start to appear in the forthcoming 2023 budget proposal.
March 21, 2022 -
The Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Directorate has teamed up with counterparts in Israel. The goal of the program, now in its seventh year, is to fund the discovery of what it calls advanced solutions for mission-critical homeland security needs.
March 18, 2022 -
Janet Vogel, the former acting CIO and chief information security officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, recently retired after 40 years of federal service.
March 18, 2022 -
EPA Chief Information Officer Vaughn Noga expects the agency to move toward a hybrid model, and how well his office can serve both office workers and remote workers will be the measure for success.
March 15, 2022 -
Despite a $500 million request from the White House and the House initially appropriating $50 million for fiscal 2022, lawmakers decided not to add any new funding to the Technology Modernization Fund.
March 14, 2022 -
Willie Hicks, federal CTO at Dynatrace, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss a new survey that asked three hundred federal information technology professionals about the challenges their agencies face in moving to the cloud.
March 14, 2022 -
Often attachments with malicious payloads come in the popular Adobe PDF format. Recently, the National Security Agency issued guidance for how to configure your PDF reader application safely.
March 11, 2022 -
Threats such as ransomware and threat actors such as adversarial nation states have agencies worried about the confidentiality of their data and the continuity of their operations.
March 10, 2022 -
For the anatomy of one high-end account, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to cybersecurity entrepreneur and Vice President of Strategy at INKY Roger Kay.
March 10, 2022 -
MITRE Corporation's Center for Threat-Informed Defense has collaborated with more than a dozen companies to produce 13 reports freely available to anyone.
March 10, 2022 -
The agency is updating its Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program to better reflect agencies' use of cloud and newly embraced zero trust security principles.
March 09, 2022 -
Even an organization as big and armed as the United States Navy doesn't take the ransomware threat for granted.
March 08, 2022 -
Google is fortifying its cloud services with a $5.4 billion acquisition of cyber security firm Mandiant, the companies announced Tuesday
March 08, 2022 -
The Department of Homeland Security said it used cloud technologies and the security tools to maximize the capability of teleworkers and field workers even before the pandemic.
March 08, 2022