Cybersecurity
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Janet Stevens, the chief information officer of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in USDA, said her bureau will join APHIS in testing out new cyber tools and sensors under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program.
April 01, 2016 -
With all those mobile devices and teleworking days, data security has become a real worry for federal IT shops. Murugiah Souppaya, a computer scientist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about new NIST guidance that covers the best techniques and technologies for securing data and remote devices.
April 01, 2016 -
National security expert and former congressman Mike Rogers said he wants intelligence agencies to be more aggressive in information gathering, and for everyone else to let them.
March 31, 2016 -
VA Deputy CIO for Architecture, Strategy and Design Paul Tibbits said his agency wants to do more with cloud technology, but it needs a clearer message from private industry on what the technology can do for the agency.
March 30, 2016 -
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which administers the Thrift Savings Plan, is looking at best practices in the private sector to help strengthen the board's own cybersecurity and network penetration testing procedures.
March 29, 2016 Wayne Lewandowski, vice president, US Federal Sales, Vormetric, joins host John Gilroy to discuss his company's 2016 Data Threat Report, data encryption, and managing security in the federal government. March 29, 2016
March 28, 2016-
Third-party assessment organizations will play a larger role in getting cloud service providers ready for final certification by the Joint Authorization Board under an updated approach announced by the FedRAMP program on March 28.
March 28, 2016 -
Vendors are submitting bids on the next set of tools under phase 2 of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program while DHS is preparing for phase 3.
March 28, 2016 -
The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) is calling on NASA to unleash Gryphon X, a next-generation cybersecurity concept.
March 28, 2016 -
DHS promotes Danny Toler and brings on GSA veteran Emile Monett to work on the CDM program.
March 28, 2016 -
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen warned that without adequate funding and a renewed hiring authority from Congress, the IRS is going to remain understaffed, less vigilant against tax fraud and at a higher risk of cyber attack.
March 25, 2016 -
The Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general highlighted several areas agencies should focus on when developing IT projects, including creating a badgeless culture with industry partners, better integration of policy and technology and a “ruthless prioritization” of capabilities.
March 24, 2016 -
The Defense Department’s top tech official said his top worry is the retention and recruitment of talented employees as pay and benefits make it more enticing to work for private companies.
March 23, 2016 -
Today, law enforcement agencies look to technologies, such as body-worn cameras, to reduce crime. However, while body-worn cameras provide public safety benefits, they also create a new type of public safety challenge: data security.
March 23, 2016 -
Jeh Johnson, the DHS secretary, certified March 17 that the agency met the requirement in the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act to accept and provide cyber threat data in real time with the private sector.
March 17, 2016
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