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It's not the best law ever written, but the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act could make things a little better.
Are you alone, naked and waiting to be fracked? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says tons of people in the D.C. area are exposed.
The National Security Agency is preparing for an organizational change that will prepare future leaders for global threats.
A new agency could take ownership of the federal security clearance process, a former federal counterintelligence official said. The organization, called the National Investigative Service Agency, would also have a new director.
The Office of Personnel Management has sent notification letters to 93 percent of the 21.5 million victims impacted by the cyber breach.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is calling for the removal of the Office of Personnel Management's CIO Donna Seymour, after the agency's Office of Inspector General found that the Office of Procurement Operations mismanaged a contract it awarded for identity and credit monitoring services for early victims of the cyber breach.
It's one thing when cybersecurity hackers bring your system down. At least you can tell what's going on. But what about when malicious people inside or outside alter or erase data quietly? It's a major worry for business and government not knowing what they don't know. That's why the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has launched a project to establish standards and best practices for knowing about and responding to attacks on data integrity. For more on this project, Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked to Nate Lesser, the center's deputy director.
The results of the mandated 90-day review of the security clearance process is expected to come out in a matter of weeks. In the meantime, the Office of Personnel Management is preparing for changes to its federal investigative services. Executive Editor Jason Miller joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the latest. Read Jason's related story.
DHS plans to release a new terror alert system after its previous system failed to keep citizens informed of threats.
The Defense Department says the cybersecurity verification center had intermittent outages during the first three days it went online. DoD says it has fixed the problems.
Small business advocates inside the Defense Department are concerned about a new set of requirements DoD imposed on a huge number of IT contractors beginning in October.
The latest task order under the continuous diagnostic and mitigation (CDM) program would bring continuous monitoring-as-a-service (CMaaS) to 41 small and micro agencies.
The Office of Management and Budget is developing new guidance, updating existing policy and creating a brand new council to raise the prominence of privacy issues across government. Federal News Radio’s Executive Editor Jason Miller shares all the details with Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Chris Miranda, vice president of the Telecommunications Studies Center for LGS Innovations, makes the case to agencies that analyzing software before and after it’s deployed is the best way to protect data and networks from cyber attacks.