The Secure Computing Environment for the Air Force District of Washington is nearing its final phase for the non-secure network, but budgeting challenges have kept the secure network behind.
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants agencies to finish what they started years ago, and focus on protecting the Social Security numbers of federal employees.
Janet Stevens, the chief information officer of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in USDA, said her bureau will join APHIS in testing out new cyber tools and sensors under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program.
With all those mobile devices and teleworking days, data security has become a real worry for federal IT shops. Murugiah Souppaya, a computer scientist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about new NIST guidance that covers the best techniques and technologies for securing data and remote devices.
Fiscal 2015 was a record-breaking year for the Internal Revenue Service, according to the tax agency’s Data Book. But it was also a year that marked a continued decline in funding for the agency, leading to shrinking numbers in its workforce and in the agency’s enforcement branch.
The Army will release a new policy in June that will give deadlines for data centers to close and incentives for their data migration.
National security expert and former congressman Mike Rogers said he wants intelligence agencies to be more aggressive in information gathering, and for everyone else to let them.
Kareem El-Alaily, managing director of Censeo Consulting Group, makes the case for why enterprise license agreements (ELAs) pave the way for future data and reporting required by government agencies to meet Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) policy guidelines.