Raghav Vajjhala, the chief information officer at the Federal Trade Commission, said the agency is upgrading its network backbone to use software-defined networking (SD-WAN) and its cybersecurity to achieve a zero trust architecture.
Sonny Hashmi, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said with the initial Federal Marketplace Strategy initiatives almost complete, FAS is rolling out the next projects.
Defense Innovation Unit cyber portfolio Deputy Director Patrick Gould said on behalf of cyber mission teams, his organization tested out two tools that advanced the use of deception approaches to stop hackers.
Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, said the annual Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) report to Congress further highlights why the administration is focusing on some key areas to improve.
During this webinar Kshemendra Paul, the chief data officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, will address how VA's data strategy starts with consistency and ends with the improved care of veterans. In addition, Richard Breakiron, the senior director of strategic initiatives for federal at Commvault will provide an industry perspective.
Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana said OMB is working on new 21st Century IDEA Act guidance and a new IT modernization strategy.
Kevin Cox, the outgoing program manager of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program at CISA, said CISA has implemented the cyber dashboard at 13 CFO Act agencies and plans to provide it to all agencies later this year.
Nicolas Chaillan, the Air Force’s chief software officer, said rebalancing the contractor-federal employee ratio is important to ensure the right oversight continues without delaying the delivery of software.
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) saw a huge increase in reuse of cloud security packages in fiscal 2020 and the program management office is taking steps to make it easier in 2021 and beyond.
Lisa Costa, the chief information officer of the Special Operations Command in the Defense Department, said her office is offering a DevSecOps-as-a-service approach to make it easier to push capabilities out securely.
The working group over the last year-plus interviewed industry, academia, federal, state and local government agencies and other experts to receive demonstrations to identify capabilities and determine test bed suitability for use by the federal government of test labs.
Joe Castle, a recent PhD graduate from Virginia Tech, who studied federal technology policy and open source software, and is a federal employee, said culture, public engagement, structural factors and organizational location are all drivers for why an agency would share open source code.
Jack Gumtow, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief information officer, said his office is leading three levels of effort to modernize the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS).
Two agencies are trying to streamline and reduce the burden of cybersecurity processes in an effort to get capabilities to the mission areas faster.
Greg Garcia recently retired after 38 years in government where spent the last two-plus years as the deputy CIO of the Army.