Grant Schneider, the federal chief information security officer, said the 2019 Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) report to Congress shows marked improvements around tools, processes and training, which is leading to better risk management.
Many traditional cybersecurity tools focus on managing risk as opposed to combating it actively head on, says Jacob Noffke, senior principal cyber engineer at Raytheon Intelligence & Space.
Ask any IT manager across government what challenges they face, and somewhere in the top three they’ll tell you how hard it is to find and hire talent
Kevin Cox, CISA's CDM program manager, said the agency will establish the information exchange between agency dashboards and the new federal CDM dashboard in the second quarter of fiscal 2021.
The 2020 fiscal year is shaping up to possibly top 2019, the highest year yet for federal contract spending. But contractors need to watch out for a few things.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations completed a year-long investigation into federal oversight of three Chinese telecommunications companies.
Chase Cunningham, principal analyst serving security and risk professionals at Forrester Research, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk for a wide ranging discussion of cybersecurity, CMMC, NIST 800 207, and risk management.
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) already authorized 47 new products as of June, which is more than it did in all of 2019.
The Pentagon says it's not resisting oversight but also did not say when officials will appear on the Hill.
McAfee Public Sector Chief Technology Strategist Ned Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the role of cybersecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw cloud usage spike.
Lt. General Jack Shanahan, former director of DoD's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, joins host Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends to discuss his philosophy of leadership during a crisis.
Stephen Horvath , vice president of Strategy & Vision at Telos, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal agencies protect their sensitive information, when making the transition to the cloud.
Like other agencies, the National Security Agency is doing more online collaboration these days.
Erin Joe, the director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC), said the Cyber Threat Framework is creating a common lexicon for agencies to understand and discuss potential and real security threats and vulnerabilities.
The CMMC Accreditation Body will release more details on or about June 1 about how companies can become certified three-party assessment organizations and individuals can be assessors.