The move to remote work during the pandemic has increased the threat surface among agencies and the private sector.
Viral Chawda, a principal and head of artificial intelligence, analytics and engineering for the government sector at KPMG, said once agencies truly understand their cyber data, leaders can have insights into things like what applications still don't require multi-factor authentication, what hardware is going out of support, how much of a workload is in the cloud, which devices are using non-compliant software and so much more.
A series of bills making their way through Congress look to improve agency cybersecurity, location and contractor relations.
One week after the Colonial Pipeline was hacked, leading to gas shortages up and down the East Coast, President Joe Biden’s Achieving ‘bold changes’ in authentication from EO on cybersecurity
TalaTek president and chief compliance officer at parent company Cerberus Sentinel, a cybersecurity consulting and managed services firm, talks about what organizations should know about ransomware attacks, how to address them if they occur, and the best ways to prevent them from happening in the first place.
The Biden administration is asking for a 2.4% increase and a 14% increase in federal IT and cybersecurity spending, respectively, in fiscal 2022.
Ryan Picchini, senior director of Product Marketing at Acquia, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how effective web design can help align federal agency resources and remove silos for citizens to consume federal information.
They have been a separate entity around the Pentagon for less than five years, taking on a variety of complex technical issues for different DoD groups. And their organizational structure is a lot like a Silicon Valley start-up.
Tom Kennedy, vice president, Public Sector at Rubrik and Christopher Ginder, regional director of Civilian Agencies at NetApp, join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss a joint venture to improve network security in the federal government.
Officials expect some bumps along the way, but the Navy plans to onboard more than 200,000 users to a new cloud-hosted office suite starting next week.
John Demers, the assistant attorney general for National Security in DoJ, said the review group will send its recommendations to the Commerce Department.
It might be time for a whole new type of computer and communications network, one that's more resilient and more resistant to cybersecurity threats than networks as we know them today.
Steven Burke, of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, said one of the ways to overcome those challenges is with good business relationships among government customers and external data owners.
In today's Federal Newscast, government contractors are pressing House and Senate leaders to include more funding for federal technology and cybersecurity in the infrastructure package.
The Coast Guard is transforming its cyber “blue team” enterprise into a more comprehensive Cyber Operational Assessments Branch, and is standing up its first red team as part of this restructuring.