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The General Services Administration issued its second RFI in a year seeking feedback on how to make it easier to buy certain types of cybersecurity services.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2015 has been in effect for six months, but Congress and the Homeland Security Department say tweaks are needed to encourage more information sharing from industry.
Keith Bluestein, the acting chief information officer of the SBA, said the agency has been upgrading its network backbone as a precursor to being able to take advantage of new technologies such as the cloud.
Cybersecurity experts are like diamonds. Everyone is panning for them. Meanwhile, the cyber threat federal agencies face are growing more frequent and lurid. (ISC)² has helped thousands of people obtain cybersecurity credentials. Dan Waddell, managing director for (ISC)² North America, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a review of progress in federal cybersecurity education.
Federal agencies have a seemingly insatiable need for cybersecurity experts. But wanting them and having job openings for them doesn't mean they come streaming in. Mallory Barg Bulman, research director at the Partnership for Public Service, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what the elements of a cybersecurity hiring strategy might be.
DoD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen said he plans to phase out the secure identity card over the next two years and replace it with better multi-factor authentication.
Deborah Pierre-Louis, director of IT Security Policy, Liaison, and Training, Bureau of Information Resource Management, Department of State, discusses cybersecurity training, perimeter-based security, and security by design. June 14, 2016
Keith Trippie, the CEO of The Trippie Group LLC and a public sector board member of Acquia, says agencies should follow the lead of dating, travel and insurance companies and have an “easy” button for system modernization.
The Defense Department decides to reject a recent audit's recommendation to reduce the housing allowance benefits for dual military couples.
Federal News Radio obtained a previously unreleased memo from federal CIO Tony Scott detailing 18 milestones over the next six months to make the Login.gov platform a reality.
The House Homeland Security Committee approved its 80th bill this session to reorganize and rename the Homeland Security Department’s National Programs and Protections Directorate.
Rod Turk, the Commerce Department’s chief information security officer, said the agency is preparing for the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program by upgrading its infrastructure.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced he is adding three members to the Defense Innovation Advisory Board. Two of them are technologists and Silicon Valley regulars.
Customs and Border Protection is working to bake cybersecurity more deeply into its networks from one end to the other. Chief Security Officer Shaun Khalfan tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the procedures and technologies he's pushing to protect against both external hackers wishing to do harm and against insiders who act either carelessly or maliciously.