The Information Security Oversight Office of the National Archives and Records Administration has published a new guide to help agencies manage and label unclassified information.
On this edition of \"Disaster Relief for America\", hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview Dr. Therese McAllister, who leads the Community Resilience Group in the Materials and Structural Systems Research Division of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The government spends about $1.2 billion a year on mobile devices and services. But the Government Accountability Office found many agencies aren\'t keeping good track of those devices, or the money it spends on them. Carol Cha is the director of IT acquisition management issues at GAO. She joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive with more on the report.
Inspectors zeroed in on the 15 federal agencies with the highest reported annual telecommunications spending. What they found shows inadequate procedures for monitoring and controlling spending on cell phones.
The Office of Management and Budget and the National Archives issued a set of requirements in 2012 for agencies to improve their electronic records management. A new Government Accountability Office report says most agencies are meeting those requirements, but some still have more work to do.
Commentary: Andrea Little Limbago, a principal social scientist at Endgame, argues for a new type of cyber framework to help public and private sector organizations prepare for and better respond to attacks.
Stephen Rice, the TSA chief information officer, said the agency is figuring out how to modernize its IT infrastructure despite seeing a $65 million budget cut over the last three years.
Stephen Warren, the Veterans Affairs Department\'s chief information officer, said he\'s brought in extra vendors to deal with a backlog of cyber challenges. VA\'s inspector general found more than 9,000 outstanding system security risks in its annual Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) report.