Recently, a cyber attacker attempted to add lethal amounts of lye to the water supply at a treatment plant in Tampa Bay. It was a warning shot across the bow of our nation’s preparedness and resolve.
Three of the Biden administration’s leading nominees for IT and cyber positions say they'll work from the same playbook to prevent and respond to cyber attacks.
In today's Federal Newscast, companies manufacturing electronics may opt out of working with the Defense Department because of the cost of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.
In its latest look at how the State Department manages itself, the Government Accountability Office found State has made a lot of progress. Federal Drive got the latest from GAO's Jason Bair.
Sudhakar Ramakrishna, the president and CEO at SolarWinds, said the high-profile attack his company experienced, which came to light in December but likely started a year before, is both a learning experience and an opportunity to double-down on software development approaches.
Yash Prakash, chief strategy officer at Saviynt, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk, to discuss identity management and how federal agencies can elevate access for customers, secure access without a VPN, monitor every privileged session.
The move to remote work during the pandemic has increased the threat surface among agencies and the private sector.
Viral Chawda, a principal and head of artificial intelligence, analytics and engineering for the government sector at KPMG, said once agencies truly understand their cyber data, leaders can have insights into things like what applications still don't require multi-factor authentication, what hardware is going out of support, how much of a workload is in the cloud, which devices are using non-compliant software and so much more.
A series of bills making their way through Congress look to improve agency cybersecurity, location and contractor relations.
One week after the Colonial Pipeline was hacked, leading to gas shortages up and down the East Coast, President Joe Biden’s Achieving ‘bold changes’ in authentication from EO on cybersecurity
TalaTek president and chief compliance officer at parent company Cerberus Sentinel, a cybersecurity consulting and managed services firm, talks about what organizations should know about ransomware attacks, how to address them if they occur, and the best ways to prevent them from happening in the first place.
The Biden administration is asking for a 2.4% increase and a 14% increase in federal IT and cybersecurity spending, respectively, in fiscal 2022.
Ryan Picchini, senior director of Product Marketing at Acquia, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how effective web design can help align federal agency resources and remove silos for citizens to consume federal information.
They have been a separate entity around the Pentagon for less than five years, taking on a variety of complex technical issues for different DoD groups. And their organizational structure is a lot like a Silicon Valley start-up.
Tom Kennedy, vice president, Public Sector at Rubrik and Christopher Ginder, regional director of Civilian Agencies at NetApp, join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss a joint venture to improve network security in the federal government.