Cybersecurity
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Marc Groman, chief privacy officer for the Office of Management and Budget, revealed the progress made toward updating how the federal government handles privacy and civil liberties as President Barack Obama signs a new executive order.
February 09, 2016 -
President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress for $19 billion for federal cybersecurity efforts in fiscal 2017. The White House wants to use some of the money to create a $3.1 billion IT modernization fund and provide more education to federal employees as part of a new cyber national action plan.
February 09, 2016 -
Agencies have more choices than ever to buy secure cloud computing services. The Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (FedRAMP) is finding its footing in providing access to authorized vendors to provide cloud services. The General Services Administration's Matt Goodrich is the director of the FedRAMP cybersecurity program for cloud services. He tells executive editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the progress FedRAMP has made since the summer.
February 08, 2016 -
Other agency CIOs should take notice for how House lawmakers focused on the $250,000 paid to the Education Department CIO despite what they call poor overall performance, most specifically around cybersecurity.
February 08, 2016 -
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hit Beth Cobert, the nominee to be the permanent director of the Office of Personnel Management, with a wide range of questions at her nomination hearing. But the committee is also looking for more transparency and better communication between OPM and Congress.
February 04, 2016 -
That gap between how the public and private sectors embrace digital technology is at the heart of the most recent Federal Leaders Digital Insight Study.
February 04, 2016 -
Once your personal information has been purloined, you have to think twice about anyone who might try to befriend you. If you're one of the more than 20 million federal employees affected by the great Office of Personnel Management data breach, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center has some information that might help. Bill Evanina, center director, brings more to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
February 03, 2016 -
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members took Education Department’s acting Secretary John King and chief information officer Danny Harris to task for systemic cybersecurity problems, and what some say is a lack of accountability for past behaviors.
February 02, 2016 -
Last year, Google invested $100 million in Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company. The Defense Department has also turned to Crowdstrike as part of its third offset strategy. Just who is this outfit? Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione talked with Robert Johnston, a principal consultant at Crowdstrike, about where the U.S. is in cybersecurity and what he thinks it can expect. He shared that information on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
February 02, 2016 -
Haiyan Song, a senior vice president of security markets for Splunk, makes the case that the only way the government will survive the continuous onslaught of cyber attacks is by working more closely with industry.
February 02, 2016 -
The Pentagon's operational testing and evaluation office says "red teams" are spread too thin to test DoD networks against real-world threats.
February 02, 2016 -
The National Security Agency has retained almost 97 percent of its employees in 2015.
February 01, 2016 What is the state of the clearance job market in 2016? Find out when Evan Lesser, founder and director of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch on Fed Access. January 29, 2016
January 29, 2016-
A successful transition to the administration's new federal security clearance program will take the right technology, timing and leadership, former federal intelligence community experts said.
January 29, 2016 -
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has had what you might call an excellent year. It's managed to publish a slew of cybersecurity practice guides, working with industry. Donna Dodson, associate director of the information technology lab and chief cybersecurity adviser at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a review.
January 28, 2016
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