Technology
-
Navy identified dozens of systems due to transition to new consolidated data centers, but are still at risk for failing to comply with DoD cyber regulations
December 22, 2015 -
Stephen Morris, the assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, said the five-year effort to build the Next Generation Identification system (NGI) has delivered on its promises and then some, giving examiners faster and more accurate processing of fingerprints and other biometrics.
December 22, 2015 -
OFPP Administrator Anne Rung and federal CIO Tony Scott issue a draft policy for public comment on making enterperisewide software licenses mandatory across the government.
December 22, 2015 -
The FBI was certain its new fingerprint processing system would help solve cases faster. But a year into using the Next Generation Identification system, the bureau is reaping benefits beyond what it imagined five years ago when it first began the update key crime solving service nearly 10 years ago. Stephen Morris, assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, tells Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how NGI’s technology advancements is changing the way the FBI works.
December 22, 2015 -
Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Navy to cut back on capacity and invest more in capability in a letter last week.
December 21, 2015 -
Specific guidelines for maintaining and keeping track of the federal cybersecurity workforce are included in the 2016 omnibus, which Congress passed last week. Agency leaders will assign each position an employment code under the creation of a new National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education.
December 21, 2015 -
It's not the best law ever written, but the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act could make things a little better.
December 21, 2015 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is comparing the existing standards for Attribute Based Access Control. A new publication from the agency describes the two standards, NGAC and XACML and compares them with respect to five criteria to help users and vendors make informed decisions when addressing future data service policy enforcement requirements. David Ferraiolo, group manager of the Systems and Applications Group at NIST, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what Attribute Based Access Controls are and why they are important.
December 21, 2015
The latest in Government Events powered by:
