The Federal government’s security clearance system is outdated and needs to be replaced, but fixing it is going to take time because the government is still years away from fully developing a continuous evaluation process that can replace today’s once-every-five-years investigations.
The federal government has invested billions of dollars in developing and maintaining information technology and Capgemini estimates 75 percent of this spend is on operations and maintenance – just keeping the engines running. The user population is becoming increasingly tech-savvy, budgets are remaining flat or decreasing, and mission needs expanding. How can agencies meet their current demands and take advantage of innovations in technology?
The Intelligence and National Security Alliance convened a breakfast forum to host the panel discussion, “Virtualization in Collaborative Information Sharing Environment” to discuss the benefits of virtualization and how the public and private sectors can best work together to share information.
Federal News Radio's Executive Editor Jason Miller sits down with Rob Carey, Vencore's Vice President of Navy and Marine Corps Programs to discuss the latest in agency cybersecurity trends.
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Federal News Radio's Custom Media Director Jason Fornicola sits down with Mike Maiorana, the SVP of Public Sector Sales for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, and George Fischer, the SVP of Global Sales for Verizon Enterprise Solutions to address the evolving government technology landscape.
“We’re allowing access to important information and, of course, the government’s infrastructure, which is critical for both the government and our nation’s day-to-day operations. And it contains information about our citizens and other sensitive information. With today’s dynamic workforce and the robust attack surfaces that exist, capabilities such as two-factor or multi-factor authentication are required to secure the federal ecosystem,” retired Navy Adm. Mike Brown, vice president and general manager of RSA’s Global Public Sector, told Federal News Radio Custom Media Director Jason Fornicola on In Focus.
“Labor, NASA, for instance, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission – all those had huge increases – 65 percent, 66 percent, 78 percent where they went from basically zero to most of the privileged users and unprivileged users using their HSPD-12 cards or some other mechanism to do two-factor authentication,” Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller recently told Federal News Radio Custom Media Director Jason Fornicola on In Focus.
Industry expert Matt McCormack, former CISO at IRS and the Defense Intelligence Agency and now Chief Technology Officer of RSA’s Global Public Sector gives Director of Custom Media Jason Fornicola an overview of how organizations can rapidly respond to a data breach.
“Labor, NASA, for instance, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission – all those had huge increases – 65 percent, 66 percent, 78 percent where they went from basically zero to most of the privileged users and unprivileged users using their HSPD-12 cards or some other mechanism to do two-factor authentication,” Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller recently told Federal News Radio Custom Media Director Jason Fornicola on In Focus.
“What we really need to see happening is that every application on every system moves away from the username and password and onto the two-factor authentication process,” Smart Card Alliance Executive Director Randy Vanderhoof told Federal News Radio Custom Media Director Jason Fornicola on In Focus.
Federal News Radio's Custom Media Director Jason Fornicola sits down with Mike Denning, the Vice President of Global Security at Verizon Enterprise Solutions and Bryan Sartin, the Managing Director of RISK Team at Verizon Enterprise Solutions to address issues pertaining to data breaches and how to move forward once a breach has occured.
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