Cybersecurity
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Cyber breaches at the Office of Personnel Management and Ashley Madison may have something in common: you. The Los Angeles Times reports foreign spy services are hacking and aggregating data from U.S. networks to build their files on U.S. intelligence officers. Ron Marks is senior fellow for the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and a former CIA special assistant. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose the OPM breach was never about identity theft, but a plan to learn more about what you're doing and where you're going.
September 01, 2015 -
Faisal Iqbal, public sector CTO for Citrix, offers four things agencies should start today to improve the security of their networks and data.
September 01, 2015 Bill Corrington, federal director for the Cloud Security Alliance and Juanita Koilpillai, founder and CEO of Waverly Labs, join host John Gilroy to explain why Software Defined Perimeters is a new paradigm in computer security. September 1, 2015
August 31, 2015-
DHS and GSA choose Booz Allen and HP Enterprise Services to provide tools and services under two task orders under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program.
August 31, 2015 -
The Defense Department needs a 21st century security network that can handle a growing number of sophisticated threats. The Pentagon has already put a lot of work and resources into the Host-Based Security System. It's part of DoD's first coordinated departmentwide security system. Dan Goure is vice president of the Lexington Institute. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about a six-step strategy the Pentagon should pursue to build off the system it already has.
August 31, 2015 -
The Defense Department's new rules for contractors to report cyber breaches could end up costing the military a lot more than it thinks.
August 31, 2015 -
The Department of Homeland Security is moving forward with the White House's "kill the password" initiative with an award for cell phone software that authenticates users without the use of passwords and pins.
August 28, 2015 -
Three house lawmakers are asking GAO to evaluate the CEDCaP program after the Census Bureau's last IT Census project ran billions over budget.
August 27, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management is all-in for the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program (CDM) to improve cybersecurity. OPM is among the first group of agencies to get new cyber tools and services. But CDM’s rate of implementation in general is causing a problem for the agency. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss why OPM, and potentially other agencies, are being put in a tough situation.
August 27, 2015 -
Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote to the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center, the Pentagon's Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the Interior Department's National Business Center and the General Service Administration's National Payroll Branch asking for details on their reporting of wage and tax statements in an effort to ensure tax refunds are going to the right people.
August 27, 2015 The intelligence community and private industry are pooling their efforts to fight rising threats to national cybersecurity.
August 26, 2015-
Debra Katz, founding law partner at Katz, Marshall, and Banks, shared her view on whistleblowers within the government with Women of Washington hosts Gigi Schumm and Aileen Black.
August 26, 2015 -
As the Office of Personnel Management data breach recedes into the past, the 30-day cyber sprint has left a lasting legacy, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
August 26, 2015 -
The Coast Guard is seeing many of its projects growing into programs of record with acquisition plans and contracts that are both on schedule and on budget thanks to a new strategy.
August 25, 2015 -
Agencies had a huge hole to dig out of when the 30-day cyber sprint began in June. That's according to an internal document obtained by Federal News Radio. The state of federal cybersecurity was worse than many might have thought. In this week's edition of "Inside the Reporter’s Notebook," executive editor Jason Miller writes about how far agencies had to come over the summer. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share the exclusive details.
August 24, 2015
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