Cybersecurity
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Greg Hall, the assistant director and chief information security officer in the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys in the Justice Department, said the office hired Okta to provide a cloud service to federate its identity management capabilities.
June 22, 2017 -
As the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program enters its fourth year, the Homeland Security Department is considering how it can utilize the cloud for both agency and federal dashboards. DHS is expected the launch the federal dashboard later this summer.
June 21, 2017 -
Even if your people don't handle classified information, you can learn a lot from the National Insider Threat Task Force.
June 21, 2017 -
A House panel wants the Defense Department to notify Congress when cyber attacks are made and new cyber weapons are developed. It also wants to be notified of counterterrorism policy changes.
June 20, 2017 -
J. Kevin Reid, vice president of national security and CIO for KeyLogic Systems, makes the case why the NIST cybersecurity framework gives everyone a basis to start in the same place when talking about protecting systems and networks.
June 20, 2017 -
Defense information pro Paul DeMennato offers advice about protecting informational systems against insider threats. He said it's more than keeping up to date on patches and monitoring files for human anomalies, it's about getting your staff to buy in to a culture of protecting against insider attacks.
June 20, 2017 -
The White House kicked off tech week by hosting 18 private sector technology leaders from companies such as Amazon, Apple and Google at the American Technology Council meeting.
June 20, 2017 -
The Defense Department is taking a new look at the rules it applies to contracts with commercial cloud computing providers. The Pentagon's acting CIO wants staff to examine whether vendors' own security controls could replace DoD's requirement for government-operated cloud access points.
June 20, 2017 MuleSoft's Ugorji Nwoke and Chris Aherne join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how their company help software developers leverage Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to manage, coordinate and re-use a wide variety of programs. June 20, 2017
June 19, 2017-
Wayne Belk, co-director of the National Insider Threat Task Force, wants feds to know that insider threat programs are there to protect them, not to get them in trouble.
June 19, 2017 -
Ever since Edward Snowden went against the National Security Agency, it seems like the federal government has been victim to a string of insider threats carried out. The latest being the young woman who sent NSA documents to a news site. David Buckley, managing director for federal risk consulting at KPMG, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to provide ideas for how agencies can mitigate the insider threat in the cyber age.
June 19, 2017 -
Adriane Burton, the chief information officer at Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in HHS, said the department’s incident response planning paid off during the WannaCry vulnerability.
June 16, 2017 -
The Defense Department unveils a quick setup command post that is secure enough to handle classified information in the field.
June 15, 2017 -
Industry and government both agree, without qualified people, America remains at risk in the cybersecurity wars. Rodney Peterson, director of the National Initiative on Cyber Security Education, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss his team's efforts
June 15, 2017 How are startups being used to solve federal IT problems? Find out when Eminent IT Co-founder and CTO Issac Barnes and Armortext CEO Navroop Mitter join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk. June 13, 2017
June 12, 2017
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