Cybersecurity

• Cyber desktop standard gets wakeup call from CIO Council

  The Chief Information Officer\'s Council held a séance, pulled out its Ouji board and asked for the approval from Rip Van Winkle to raise the United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB), otherwise known as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration, from its long slumber.

  Technology

  May 11, 2015
• TSP cyber vulnerabilities not addressed, senators say

  The Senate\'s top two members on homeland security want to know why more isn\'t being done to stop another cyber attack on federal retirement accounts.

  Congress

  May 08, 2015
• VA reevaluating use of public clouds, new strategy on tap

  The Veterans Affairs Department will finalize a strategy to determine how to use public or commercial cloud computing services. VA backed away from public or commercial clouds about three or four years ago because of concerns over records retention capabilities.

  Technology

  May 08, 2015
• Navy rolls out new five-year cyber strategy

  New plan charts the Navy\'s strategic objectives in cyber over the next five years, with 18-month measures of progress along the way.

  Defense

  May 07, 2015
• Capt. Andrew Tucci, Chief, Office of Port and Facility Compliance, U.S. Coast Guard

  The Coast Guard unveiled a new cybersecurity strategy earlier this month. It doesn\'t just focus on protecting Coast Guard networks and systems. It also includes the country\'s 3,600 ports. That\'s because so many ports are nearly fully automated, and therefore vulnerable to cyber attacks. Capt. Andrew Tucci is the chief of the Coast Guard\'s Office of Port and Facility Compliance. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, he said cyber attacks comprise the fastest growing risk, even at the ports.

  Federal Drive

  May 05, 2015
• DoD grants new security approvals to 23 cloud providers

  On Monday, the Pentagon made good on its promise to make more use of the government\'s FedRAMP process, certifying 23 cloud products as secure enough to host DoD low-level data.

  Defense

  May 05, 2015
• Social media & cybersecurity

  Chris Cullison and CW Walker from ZeroFOX, join host Derrick Dortch to discuss how hackers and terrorists are using social media to further their agendas. May 1, 2015

  Fed Access

  May 01, 2015
• Karen Evans, Director, U.S. Cyber Challenge

  Two new bills on cybersecurity and information sharing are through the House of Representatives. One of them deals with liability protections that\'s been a sore spot for private sector companies. Karen Evans is national director of the U.S. Cyber Challenge, and former Administrator of E-government at the Office of Management and Budget. She submitted comments on one of the bills, and described them on In Depth with Francis Rose.

  All News

  April 27, 2015
• Jack Harrington, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services

  The Super Bowl of cyber competitions just wrapped up this weekend. Ten teams competed in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in San Antonio, Texas. Showcases like this one, in which teams show off the skills to protect cyber networks from intruders, are becoming a popular way for companies to scout new — and sorely needed — talent. But the government needs those people too. Jack Harrington is the vice president of cybersecurity and special missions at Raytheon, which hosted last weekend\'s event. He joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to explain what agencies are taking away from competitions like this.

  Federal Drive

  April 27, 2015
• TSP board defends delays in cyber fixes

  Participants in the Thrift Savings Plan might not like to hear their accounts don\'t have all the recommended cybersecurity protections they need. But the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is taking its insider threat security development so seriously, it\'s putting its own cybersecurity testers through the ringer.

  All News

  April 23, 2015
• Hope springs eternal for cyber laws after House approval

  Lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act and the Protecting Cyber Networks Act this week. These are the first cybersecurity information sharing bills with broad support in more than five years.

  Congress

  April 23, 2015
• EEOC CIO Hancher to retire, but not before meeting a few more goals

  Kim Hancher is calling it a career after 34 years in government, including the last seven as the CIO of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She said she wants to make sure the agency is on the right path with cloud and cyber before leaving later this spring.

  Ask the CIO

  April 23, 2015
• Pentagon’s new cyber strategy looks to Silicon Valley

  The cyber policy revisions, which Ashton Carter will announce during a speech at Stanford University, will be the first significant update since 2011, when the department issued its first-ever cyber strategy. Carter\'s visit to Silicon Valley is the first such trip in 20 years for a Defense secretary. Officials say the pilgrimage is meant to build tighter partnerships between DoD and the tech sector it depends on for cybersecurity and technology innovation.

  Defense

  April 23, 2015
• Rep. Cummings warns more feds at risk in USIS cyber breach

  A review by federal cyber experts from DHS, ODNI and OPM raise the prospect that the initial estimate of 27,000 federal employees thought to have been impacted by the August 2014 cyber breach of security clearance contractor USIS is low. In light of that breach and others, OMB led a governmentwide review of contracts to ensure contractors are in compliance with laws and policies to protect government data on non-federal systems.

  Congress

  April 23, 2015