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A former White House IT official tapped by the Trump administration to head a new Energy Department cybersecurity office says she intends to make the agency a more competitive recruiter for top talent.
Naval Supply Systems Command launched its digital accelerator project a few months ago in hopes of leveraging its existing data. Meanwhile the Department of Transportation wants to reduce its dependency on headquarters.
TRANSCOM wants to build stricter cybersecurity into its contract requirements. Currently, its commercial partners are not held to DoD standards.
In violation of DoD policy, systems aren’t configured to use two-factor authentication and legally-required privacy impact assessments haven’t been completed.
Howard Spira, the chief information officer of the EXIM Bank, created a successful approach to moving 60 to 70 percent of systems to the cloud.
As the Army shifts its focus from violent extremist organizations to near-peer adversaries per the national defense strategy, staying on top of emerging domains and technologies will be what keeps it in a position of dominance going into the future.
Gary Wang, the Army’s deputy CIO, retired after 35 years in government and Jerry Davis will retire from NASA Ames in July.
The backlog of security clearances in the federal government makes it harder to perform classified work, while the lack of a cyber doctrine makes it harder to respond to cyber attacks without risking escalation.
The Trump administration plans to tackle the federal shortage of cybersecurity professionals include a new cybersecurity hiring system, a cybersecurity reservist program, and a plan to reskill current federal employees while improving the pipeline for new cyber talent.
Lawmakers want to know what the Health and Human Services Department is doing with its cybersecurity coordination center, but HHS isn't volunteering much information.
On this week's episode of Women of Washington, Gigi Schumm welcomed Mischel Kwon of MKACyber, who created her company as a consulting firm to help "improve security operations for enterprises and U.S. federal government agencies."
Military installations often get the short straw when it comes to funding. But a new study from the Defense Department shows just how vulnerable military buildings are to cyber attacks.
Due to delays from OPM and The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), many agencies reported insufficient and incomplete cybersecurity assessments, resulting in unreliable data.
What is open source and how is it being used in the federal government? Find out when Corelight CEO Greg Bell joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk. June 19, 2018
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