Cybersecurity
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Federal systems house troves of data that make them likely ransomware targets: personally identifiable information, financial records, and highly classified files. CISA, DISA and FHFA share tips on how to make agency systems less desirable targets.
March 28, 2022 -
The budget request outlines a "strategic shift" in federal cybersecurity efforts after incidents like SolarWinds and Log4j.
March 28, 2022 -
A crucial part of the State Department has a new head of crucial function at a time of high world tension.
March 28, 2022 -
CISA has two years to design one of the most significant cyber regulatory programs in history.
March 25, 2022 -
Nearly a year after President Joe Biden signed off on an expansive cybersecurity executive order, officials are grappling with the difficult task of taking secure software standards and applying them to the vast array of software agencies buy.
March 24, 2022 -
CISA is highlighting several tools after the White House said it has "evolving intelligence" suggesting Russia is preparing cyber attacks.
March 22, 2022 -
Despite the scattered arrangement of State Department employees around the world, going to a remote and hybrid work environment during the pandemic was less challenging than IT officials expected.
March 22, 2022 -
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