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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members took Education Department’s acting Secretary John King and chief information officer Danny Harris to task for systemic cybersecurity problems, and what some say is a lack of accountability for past behaviors.
Last year, Google invested $100 million in Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company. The Defense Department has also turned to Crowdstrike as part of its third offset strategy. Just who is this outfit? Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione talked with Robert Johnston, a principal consultant at Crowdstrike, about where the U.S. is in cybersecurity and what he thinks it can expect. He shared that information on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Haiyan Song, a senior vice president of security markets for Splunk, makes the case that the only way the government will survive the continuous onslaught of cyber attacks is by working more closely with industry.
The Pentagon's operational testing and evaluation office says "red teams" are spread too thin to test DoD networks against real-world threats.
The National Security Agency has retained almost 97 percent of its employees in 2015.
What is the state of the clearance job market in 2016? Find out when Evan Lesser, founder and director of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch on Fed Access. January 29, 2016
A successful transition to the administration's new federal security clearance program will take the right technology, timing and leadership, former federal intelligence community experts said.
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has had what you might call an excellent year. It's managed to publish a slew of cybersecurity practice guides, working with industry. Donna Dodson, associate director of the information technology lab and chief cybersecurity adviser at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a review.
The Marine Corps is planning to transition to Windows 10 by the 2017 deadline, but it is still figuring out how.
The National Background Investigations Bureau will have its own director, who will report to the Office of Personnel Management. The administration says it doesn't have a specific timeline for implementing the new security clearance program or standing up the new agency, but changes will come in incremental stages.
Crowell & Moring hosted a webinar for government contractors on what to expect this year, from election predictions to intellectual property rights.
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) received specific funding for the first year and is conducting pilots try to improve the approval process of cloud service providers.
Zach Goldstein, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s chief information officer, said the agency will expand the N-Wave network to offer mission areas access to the 100-gigabyte network in the coming year.
Over the last several months, security researchers, private firms and some governmental organizations have expressed alarm at federal rules intended to prevent proliferation of offensive cyber tools.