Technology
Tune into Fed Access to hear Stratfor's Sim Tack and Tristan Reed discuss the civil war in Syria, the Syrian refugee crisis, and how governments and businesses are doing in protecting themselves from cyber attacks. December 25, 2015
December 25, 2015-
The Defense Department is looking into ways to incorporate commercial practices in its satellite communications.
December 24, 2015 -
At 887 pages, the 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act includes several hidden pieces of legislation on funding and stipulations for the IRS, and additional information on cybersecurity threat sharing.
December 23, 2015 -
The Air Force's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron are preparing for their winter mission of tracking winter storms to provide data to the National Weather Service.
December 23, 2015 -
Over the next few months, sailors throughout the Navy’s fleet can expect to see new consequences when they violate the service’s cybersecurity policies. Troy Johnson is the director of the newly established Navy Cybersecurity division. In this excerpt from the latest edition of On DoD shared with Federal Drive with Tom Temin, he tells Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu, accountability measures are just one thing the Navy is working on to drive home the fact that cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility.
December 23, 2015 -
Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen has notified employees that all of the department's PCs now using any Microsoft operating system will be upgraded to Windows 10 by January 2017. Secretary Ash Carter will publish an execution order with details on the secure configuration everyone is supposed to use. Copies will come from the so-called secure host baseline image. For insight into how this will work, Federal News Radio reporter Scott Maucione spoke with Nigel Hughes, the vice president of sales at systems integrator SteelCloud. He shares the latest on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 23, 2015 -
While everyone else is celebrating the holidays, someone will have to be on duty watching for cybersecurity threats. 2016 won't bring the end of the cyber threat, but it will see it morphing, along with the best ways to deal. Amit Yoran has been following the cyber threat for decades. Now the president of RSA, he joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a look at the cybersecurity trends part of the look-ahead to 2016.
December 23, 2015 -
More than just the FBI is taking advantage of the advanced capabilities of the Next Generation Identification system. The FBI hired Lockheed Martin to build it for their needs, but other agencies are finding huge benefits too. Stephen Morris is the assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division. In part 2 of his interview with Executive Editor Jason Miller, Morris discusses how NGI is becoming the standard for all federal, state and local law enforcement needs.
December 23, 2015
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