Customs and Border Protection is working to bake cybersecurity more deeply into its networks from one end to the other. Chief Security Officer Shaun Khalfan tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the procedures and technologies he's pushing to protect against both external hackers wishing to do harm and against insiders who act either carelessly or maliciously.
Federal CIOs say when it comes to modernizing government IT systems, most of the workforce welcomes the change. But if the government truly wants to modernize, it will have to do more than try to catch up to the technology curve.
The Homeland Security Department once again awarded Raytheon a massive cyber contract eight months after a protest required the agency to pull back its initial award. The DOMino program will supports DHS’ EINSTEIN and other cyber programs as House lawmakers plan to debate the agency’s fiscal 2017 budget.
Join Women of Washington’for a special 2-part show live at the Women in Technology leadership awards. Hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm interview the 2016 finalist and winners. These incredible accomplished women share their insights and lessons learned on their journey to success. Part 2 Winners and Finalist interviewed Kay Kapoor, AT&T, Amy Garble USGC, Sue Evans, Evan Inc and Sophia Paros, DISA.
Dr. Gayle Hagler, who works in the Environmental Protection Agency's national risk management research lab, developed a way to monitor and report dynamic air pollution at the neighborhood level. She joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about the Village Green project she started.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said agencies are too selective about what they choose to include or omit in their progress reports on customer service. Instead, agencies should challenge themselves and begin holding themselves to higher performance standards, he added.
Wayne Lewandowski, Vormetric’s vice president of federal operations, makes the case for agencies to embrace and prioritize encryption and privileged access controls to better secure their data.
Federal contractors say there is room for improvement when it comes to protecting itself and working with government in a post-OPM breach environment. That includes modernizing the bidding process, sharing more information and being ready to adapt to an ever-changing threat.