Cybersecurity
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The Modernization Government Technology Act received approval from the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Sept. 15 and will likely get voted on by the full House on Sept. 20.
September 19, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget issued new guidance requiring agencies to name a deputy assistant secretary as the senior accountable official for privacy.
September 19, 2016 -
The Obama administration's top homeland security adviser said an official U.S. response may still be coming, and in the meantime, federal officials are keen to bolster public confidence in the U.S. election system,
September 15, 2016 -
Important lessons are being learned as the government takes tentative steps toward the cloud computing environment.
September 14, 2016 -
Ron Ross, a computer security fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, told crowds on Tuesday that faster migration to the cloud could make federal data systems more secure from malicious attacks.
September 14, 2016 -
Companies are now for the first time sharing cyber threat indicators with the Department of Homeland Security.
September 13, 2016 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
September 12, 2016-
Government sources tell Federal News Radio that some in the departments of Commerce, Agriculture and Labor also are pushing back against the implementation of the intrusion detection and prevention program known as EINSTEIN 3-Accelerated (E3A).
September 12, 2016 -
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services responded to a Reporter’s Notebook story that highlighted concerns about a recent contract award for the cyber protections of Healthcare.gov portal.
September 12, 2016 -
Silicon Valley may offer a siren call for gray feds, but by some accounts it's a hotbed of ageism.
September 12, 2016 -
The Defense Department will release new guidance on systems security engineering, a more detailed way of explaining how and where to engineer security features into programs, in the near future.
September 09, 2016 -
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.
September 09, 2016 -
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said he plans to introduce new recommendations for reforming and reorganizing DHS. The report is intended as a series of suggestions for the next administration. McCaul also said he will introduce a plan to consolidate the 100 congressional committees that have jurisdiction and oversight on the department.
September 09, 2016 -
Brigadier General (retired) Greg Touhill will move from DHS to the Office of Management and Budget to the be the first federal CISO while Grant Schneider has been named acting deputy CISO.
September 08, 2016 -
Outdated IT infrastructure and a deficit of skilled cyber workers are just some of the challenges faces the federal government as it goes to battle in the ongoing cyber war.
September 07, 2016
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