Technology
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As the recent attacks against the Office of Personnel Management and Census Bureau show, no one is safe from being hacked. But sometimes the goal isn't to steal information. Sometimes it's to disrupt an organization's Web traffic. They're called denial of service attacks. Rodney Caudle is the director of information security at NIC. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more about DDoS attacks, and how common they still are.
July 29, 2015 -
Barton Phillips, vice president of DocuSign joins host John Gilroy to discuss how digital signatures will save your agency time and money. July 28, 2015
July 28, 2015 -
The Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command will be in charge of hiring a contractor to provide identity-protection services to victims of the breach on the Office of Personnel Management's background-investigation database. NAVSEA will issue an RFQ early next week. GSA was supposed to send it out this week.
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The Office of Personnel Management is in post-mortem stage on Capitol Hill. Members and their staffers are either knowledgable about technology issues or learning. Parham Eftekhari is co-founder and senior fellow of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology. Mark Seward is a fellow at ICIT. They tell In Depth with Francis Rose about their group's analysis of the OPM cyber breach that they sent to to members of Congress and their staffs.
July 28, 2015 -
The House has a number of bills on its calendar this week that, if enacted, could have significant impacts on federal employees and their dependents.
July 28, 2015 -
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, told In Depth with Francis Rose that he's pleasantly surprised by acting OPM Director Beth Cobert's outreach efforts.
July 28, 2015 -
Hackers have no trouble innovating and creating new ways to disrupt systems, but the security industry struggles to keep up. That's according to Cisco's 2015 Midyear Security Report. It analyzes many of the industry's intersecting challenges, and provides updates on some of the most compelling threats. John Stewart is the Senior Vice President and Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cisco Systems. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to sort through the report's findings, and discuss the current state of the security industry.
July 28, 2015 -
The White House is giving agencies three years to process all their invoices electronically through a shared service provider. The Office of Management and Budget released details for how you should make that happen as part of the President’s second term management agenda. Dave Mader is the Controller and Acting Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget. He tells Executive Editor Jason Miller about the new electronic invoicing requirement.
July 28, 2015
