Technology
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Pentagon officials fully acknowledge that they’ve been relatively sluggish adopters of cloud computing, but have continued to maintain that there will always be some applications that are so sensitive that they will never be appropriate for transition to commercial hosting and must stay within the military’s networks.
September 14, 2015 -
A Freedom of Information Act request led to a lawsuit from a former fed at the Federal Trade Commission. Phil Reitinger is the former deputy under secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Homeland Security Department. He's now the CEO of VisionSpear LLC and a senior associate in the Strategic Technologies Program .at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to talk about his case and what he learned about the information he wanted and the FOIA process itself.
September 11, 2015 -
Agency tech staffs too often erase important forensic evidence after a cyber attack. Homeland Security is trying to change that so system administrators preserve data. Ann Barron-DiCamillo is the Director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team. She tells Executive Editor Jason Miller about some of the disturbing trends her team sees and how agencies can avoid erasing forensic evidence after a cyber attack.
September 11, 2015 -
DHS is trying to change how agencies react to when they discover a cyber attack. Too often, those responses are hampering forensic investigations.
September 11, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management is learning how it can use performance appraisal and talent acquisition tools to find the candidates, and do it in the most efficient and accurate ways.
September 10, 2015 -
Industry stakeholders told the Government Accountability Office they are concerned about global interoperability with the Next Generation Air Transportation Systems and how modernization efforts around the world have been hampered due to constrained resources.
September 10, 2015 -
Hillary Rodham Clinton's email problems are one in a string of examples of senior officials not following the rules governing records. Clinton's problems give managers a good chance to review email policies with their staffs.
September 10, 2015 -
Following cyber penetrations of federal IT systems at the Office of Personnel Management and elsewhere, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it’s launching a comprehensive governmentwide counterintelligence campaign. It wants to head off future data thefts and blunt their impact. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, the program’s first phase will focus on preventing spear phishing attacks.
September 10, 2015
