Technology
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Three hearings. Nearly seven hours of testimony. Enough frustration to fill the Potomac River. That was Katherine Archuleta’s week. The director of the Office of Personnel Management had a bullseye on her back as House…
June 30, 2015 -
The Defense Department and the National Institute of Standards and Technology provided a lift to the future of mobile computing in the government. DoD announced it moved its classified mobile capability from a pilot stage…
June 30, 2015 -
Breaking news on Monday: NASA is getting a new deputy chief information officer. Sources say Renee Wynn is moving to the space agency after spending the last four years as the Environmental Protection Agency’s deputy…
June 30, 2015 -
Today’s interview is with Glenn Cobb, Regional Vice President Americas, Solution Engineering for CipherCloud. Many federal information professionals want to move to the cloud but have serious questions about security. During the interview, Cobb talks…
June 29, 2015 -
A cybersecurity problem with the Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) system forces the Office of Personnel Management to shut it down for four-to-six weeks, potentially impacting thousands of current and prospective federal workers and contractors trying to get security clearances.
June 29, 2015 -
Four major overhauls can turn massive data breaches from disasters to catalysts for change. Attracting talented cyber professionals and streamlining the IT cyber acquisition process are some of the key ingredients Richard Spires recommended to the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. He is the former chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service, and now CEO of Resilient Network Systems. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that he sees systemic weaknesses in government IT security that need to be fixed now.
June 29, 2015
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