Cybersecurity
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At 887 pages, the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act includes several hidden pieces of legislation on funding and stipulations for the IRS, and additional information on cybersecurity threat sharing.
December 23, 2015 -
Over the next few months, sailors throughout the Navy’s fleet can expect to see new consequences when they violate the service’s cybersecurity policies. Troy Johnson is the director of the newly established Navy Cybersecurity division. In this excerpt from the latest edition of On DoD shared with Federal Drive with Tom Temin, he tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu, accountability measures are just one thing the Navy is working on to drive home the fact that cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility.
December 23, 2015 -
While everyone else is celebrating the holidays, someone will have to be on duty watching for cybersecurity threats. 2016 won't bring the end of the cyber threat, but it will see it morphing, along with the best ways to deal. Amit Yoran has been following the cyber threat for decades. Now the president of RSA, he joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a look at the cybersecurity trends part of the look-ahead to 2016.
December 23, 2015 -
Specific guidelines for maintaining and keeping track of the federal cybersecurity workforce are included in the 2016 omnibus, which Congress passed last week. Agency leaders will assign each position an employment code under the creation of a new National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education.
December 21, 2015 -
It's not the best law ever written, but the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act could make things a little better.
December 21, 2015 -
Are you alone, naked and waiting to be fracked? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says tons of people in the D.C. area are exposed.
December 18, 2015 -
The National Security Agency is preparing for an organizational change that will prepare future leaders for global threats.
December 16, 2015 -
A new agency could take ownership of the federal security clearance process, a former federal counterintelligence official said. The organization, called the National Investigative Service Agency, would also have a new director.
December 11, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management has sent notification letters to 93 percent of the 21.5 million victims impacted by the cyber breach.
December 11, 2015 -
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is calling for the removal of the Office of Personnel Management's CIO Donna Seymour, after the agency's Office of Inspector General found that the Office of Procurement Operations mismanaged a contract it awarded for identity and credit monitoring services for early victims of the cyber breach.
December 10, 2015 -
It's one thing when cybersecurity hackers bring your system down. At least you can tell what's going on. But what about when malicious people inside or outside alter or erase data quietly? It's a major worry for business and government not knowing what they don't know. That's why the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has launched a project to establish standards and best practices for knowing about and responding to attacks on data integrity. For more on this project, Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked to Nate Lesser, the center's deputy director.
December 09, 2015 -
The results of the mandated 90-day review of the security clearance process is expected to come out in a matter of weeks. In the meantime, the Office of Personnel Management is preparing for changes to its federal investigative services. Executive Editor Jason Miller joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the latest. Read Jason's related story.
December 08, 2015 -
DHS plans to release a new terror alert system after its previous system failed to keep citizens informed of threats.
December 07, 2015 -
The Defense Department says the cybersecurity verification center had intermittent outages during the first three days it went online. DoD says it has fixed the problems.
December 07, 2015 -
Small business advocates inside the Defense Department are concerned about a new set of requirements DoD imposed on a huge number of IT contractors beginning in October.
December 07, 2015
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