Cybersecurity
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Tony Scott, the federal chief information officer, said he fully supports OPM Director Katherine Archuleta and CIO Donna Seymour in their efforts to address long-standing cyber challenges, and cautions lawmakers to ‘be careful about distinguishing fire starters from firefighters.’
June 26, 2015 -
DHS says its program to scan federal networks for cyber threats should be mostly finished by the end of this fiscal year, but it still faces obstacles in implementation of EINSTEIN 3, which seeks to stop cyber attacks before they enter federal networks.
June 25, 2015 -
During the second hearing of the week, the Office of Personnel Management defended its hiring of Winvale and CSID despite continued questions about the $21 million contract. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) pressed OPM about the possibility of the second breach impacting 32 million current and former federal employees.
June 25, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management will hire a special cyber advisor, accelerate the implementation of two-factor authentication and data encryption technologies.
June 25, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management is considering sending an additional request to Congress asking for additional funding in 2016 to help pay for cybersecurity fixes, but members of Congress and the agency's inspector general say that money may not be what is needed in this situation. The request may come as senators hear why OPM needs $32 million more next year for its IT modernization program.
June 24, 2015 -
Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, told Senate Appropriations Committee lawmakers that she is demanding better performance by Winvale and CSID in how the vendors are answering questions from current and retired employees about the data breach. Archuleta also said the breach suffered by KeyPoint Government Solutions in August 2014 gave hackers access to OPM’s network.
June 24, 2015 In the 2015 federal version of "The Blob," bad people hack into Uncle Sam's holy of holies, the central personnel files. Names, Social Security numbers and highly personal data is breached. Like The Blob, the number of people affected is not getting any smaller, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
June 24, 2015-
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) would like to see more focus and urgency by the Office of Personnel Management in its response to two major cyber breaches that have put the personnel information of millions of federal employees at risk.
June 23, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management\'s contract for credit monitoring services has come under scrutiny lately. OPM closed the bidding process after only 36 hours, which led several procurement experts to question whether the agency steered the contract toward Winvale. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has started looking into the contract, sending a letter to OPM Director Katherine Archuleta last week seeking answers about both the rationale for the contract award, as well as the performance of Winvale and its subcontractor CSID. Sen. Warner joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain what he wants to know and why he\'s so upset.
June 23, 2015 -
Should Office of Personnel Director Katherine Archuleta resign over data breach? Weigh in and take our poll.
June 23, 2015 -
Commentary: Giles Kesteloot, director of the Blackstone Technology Group, argues that in a complex multi-contract, multi-customer and multi-vendor cloud ecosystem someone has to oversee execution and manage expectations.
June 23, 2015 -
No matter how nice you may couch the message, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, at the end of the day, when you\'re dumped, you\'re dumped.
June 23, 2015
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