Cybersecurity
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The Justice Department recently refreshed policy for using a potent stick to prod federal contractors. Or maybe whack them upside the head. The Civil Cyber Fraud initiative's club is the False Claims Act.
October 18, 2021 -
Peter Chapman, CEO of IonQ joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to give an overview of quantum computing for federal information technology.
October 18, 2021 -
Rick Simon, the program manager for the Secure Cloud Management project and a contractor in the Defense Innovation Unit, said the office issued success memos to the three vendors who took part in the pilot program.
October 15, 2021 -
The agency says it doesn't want to reinvent the wheel in developing an approach to securing the broad information and communications technology ecosystem.
October 14, 2021 -
Constant monitoring combined with a security approach designed in line with how the cloud operates can keep government data and systems safe from compromise.
October 14, 2021 -
Forthcoming strategy looks beyond IT modernization, takes multiyear approach to also reform IT policies and personnel practices.
October 14, 2021 -
Katie Arrington had been DoD’s chief information security officer for acquisition and sustainment to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment since 2020 and led the development of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.
October 13, 2021 -
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a holistic approach to protecting data, intellectual property and networks both in the cloud and on-prem.
October 13, 2021 -
Identity and access management, along with zero trust architecture and supply chain risk management, are key foundational points of the president’s cybersecurity executive order issued in May.
October 12, 2021 -
The Office of Management and Budget issued a new memo requiring agencies to assess their current status and plan for the future around end-point detection and response tools.
October 12, 2021 -
To improve detecting cybersecurity vulnerabilities and incidents, Section 7 of President Joe Biden's cybersecurity executive order requires agencies to deploy endpoint detection and response tools, aimed at proactively detecting incidents.
October 12, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast: A new law aims to shed light on the cybersecurity risks faced by American schools. Fewer postal workers recommend taking a job with the agency. The Veterans Affairs Department found over $100 million in savings by getting rid of old technologies.
October 12, 2021 -
SBOM. It sounds like a play on a word you can't say, but it stands for software bill of materials. And that big executive order on cybersecurity from last May urged federal agencies to understand and use SBOMs as part of their risk management efforts.
October 11, 2021 -
Collins, who recently left after four years as the chief information security officer at the Social Security Administration, said one of his biggest accomplishments was hiring or retraining two dozen information system security officers (ISSOs) to work directly with the mission areas.
October 11, 2021 -
GAO looked at agencies' system security plans, the results of security control assessments, remedial action plans and whether or not they followed NIST cybersecurity guidance.
October 11, 2021