Important lessons are being learned as the government takes tentative steps toward the cloud computing environment.
Officials with GSA's FedRAMP program say they are about to authorize the first provider coming through the accelerated process.
F5 Networks' Lou Giglio, Jeff Deal, and Ron Cochran join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss encryption and it's role in consumer security. September 13, 2016
The Census Bureau is using a multi-pronged approach to cybersecurity as it gears up for the 2020 Census and balances sharing and securing massive amounts of data.
Rob Foster, the Department of Navy’s chief information officer, released a new guidance to accept more certifications and qualifications from sailors, seamen and civilians instead of the one-size fits all approach.
George Holland, the vice president of federal strategy and business development for Juniper Networks, says virtualization and the cloud give agencies opportunities to do more with less.
Brian Fogg, vice president and chief technology officer, NCI Information Systems, will discuss how hyperconverged infrastructure or HCI, can help agencies reduce costs and improve security. September 6, 2016
The Army is sticking to its word on a late 2016 request for proposals on unified capabilities.
Bill Lemons, director, Federal Systems Engineering at Juniper Networks, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how his company can help data center managers operate more effectively and reach their agency goals. August 30, 2016
Carol Mullins, the associate commissioner for the Office of Technology and Survey Processing for the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, said the bureau’s effort to reduce its servers, applications and other IT components is coming to fruition over the next year.
The intelligence community is building its cloud system around the concept of integration in order to facilitate better data sharing and standardized security.
For nearly 10 years, the Defense Information Systems Agency has been working to provide secure cloud computing to DoD agencies. No longer the exclusive cloud provider itself, DISA now helps agencies use commercial providers in a secure way. John Hale, the cloud portfolio manager at DISA. tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the effort centers on applications, if they're ready for cloud hosting and the best way to go about it.
Mark Schwartz, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services chief information officer, said he’s implementing something called impact mapping to better manage how his agency uses dev/ops to move off legacy systems.
Dave Milhecic, DISA’s chief technology officer, said a big data platform and an application that runs on top of it called Fight by Indicator (FBI) is giving analysts the information and tools to improve network defenses.
The new DHS program helps researchers collect data sets and test scenarios for potential cyber-related infrastructure events.