Cybersecurity
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Bill James and Drew Myklegard from the Department of Veterans Affairs said they’ve created essentially a “wall outlet” for third-party applications.
April 11, 2019 -
The technology modernization drive has been operating in the federal government for years. Yet agencies continue to relay on so-called legacy systems.
April 11, 2019 -
Now that the agency defends itself against more than a billion cyber attacks a year, Commissioner Chuck Rettig urged members of the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday for multi-year funds to modernize its hardware as well as its workforce, which hasn't recovered from seven years of a hiring freeze.
April 10, 2019 -
Some estimates put the number of cyber job openings at a more than 300,000. It's a nationwide problem.
April 10, 2019 -
IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig has urged members of a House Appropriations subcommittee to give the agency the authority to hire short-term cyber and IT talent more quickly and pay them at a rate beyond the pay scale for career employees.
April 09, 2019 -
Analyst Chase Cunningham said the concept of zero trust means removing the potential for someone to be the person who causes a cybersecurity failure.
April 09, 2019 -
FEMA’s Adrian Gardner retires after 30 years and GSA’s Dan Twomey is leaving next week after spending the last four years in government as an industry expert.
April 08, 2019 -
The federal intelligence community has been encouraged by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to promote the retention and hiring of employees who suffer from disabilities.
April 08, 2019 -
The Department of Health and Human Services now requires executives traveling anywhere overseas to take a loaner device and connect through a secure tunnel.
April 08, 2019 -
In this exclusive executive briefing, the following experts discuss practical cyber workforce strategies and ways government and industry can collaborate more effectively
April 05, 2019 -
Attracting enough cybersecurity and IT talent is a well-known problem across government, but technology always has ripple effects, and those are starting to affect hiring in other fields as well.
April 05, 2019 -
Massachusetts CIO rose through the public safety ranks to the governor's cabinet. He talked consolidation, a new IT bond and more on this week's Ask the CIO: SLED Edition.
April 04, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, A DHS IG report reveals that a quarter of the 8,000 TSA officers who left the agency in fiscal 2017, left within the first six months on the job.
April 04, 2019 -
Bill Evanina of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned that public and private sector companies shouldn’t become numb to growing supply chain attacks.
April 04, 2019 -
Scammers are trying to imitate government agencies again to get their money or personal information, but the federal government is already looking at ways to fight back.
April 03, 2019
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