Cybersecurity
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The White House’s forthcoming zero trust strategy gives agencies a chance to overhaul how employees and citizens access federal systems.
January 25, 2022 -
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is revising its approach to using commercial sources of technology and data. It wants to diversify its sources, improve data security, and maybe have some influence on what the GEOINT industry does. For details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the NGA's associate director for enterprise, Gary Dunow.
January 25, 2022 -
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) regulates federal home loan banks as well as the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac organizations. As a consequence, ransomware attacks are a serious concern.
January 25, 2022 -
Nancy Pate, general manager, Public Sector and Danny Holloway, Public Sector Field chief technology officer at Immuta, join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to share methods to overcome some of the typical access-control issues inherent in applying zero trust principles to enterprise-level applications and data.
January 24, 2022 -
When you think of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, what comes to mind?
January 21, 2022 -
The National Science Foundation and USAID received “A” grades under the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s 13th Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard.
January 20, 2022 -
Most projects conducted at federal agencies are traditionally complex, lengthy and resource-intensive. In the past, software releases occurred every six months, but now, in the digital transformation era, these releases are happening on a monthly basis.
January 19, 2022 -
Langevin will step down after 11 terms in Congress.
January 19, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a Postal Service banking pilot isn’t drawing many customers.
January 19, 2022 -
A new national security memorandum sets deadlines for defense and intelligence agencies to implement things like multifactor authentication, encryption, cloud technologies and endpoint detection.
January 19, 2022 -
As ransomware attacks continue to plague IT teams across all sectors, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is working to counter them through a variety of means. With Log4J giving the cyber and IT community a scare with how easy it was to exploit, it became clear that a paradigm shift was necessary.
January 18, 2022 -
Kurt Greening, Leader Public Sector, Public Cloud, Palo Alto Networks, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company's innovations are helping federal IT officials protect their data from cyber attacks.
January 17, 2022 -
Log4j, the most visible cybersecurity threat since Solar Winds, has organizations scrambling to find and fix instances of certain software.
January 14, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a Government Accountability Office report on the federal response to the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange exploits, shows agencies have a lot of work to do.
January 14, 2022 -
Rep. John Katko (R-Ny.) wants to make CISA a $5 billion-a-year agency. He plans to spend the next year studying how to get it there.
January 14, 2022