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The health of the U.S. economy and well-being of our citizens relies on secure critical infrastructure but the Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002 has not been updated since it was first introduced.
CISA is about to get its own procurement authority but could they grow too large too fast? Alan Thomas, the former commissioner of the GSA's Federal Acquisition Service, now the chief operating officer of Intellibridge talked with Tom Temin on the Federal Drive.
As cyber threats have continued to increase in frequency and sophistication in recent years, the government signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which is designed to assist all levels of government in preventing, protecting and responding to cyber-attacks.
In today's Federal Newscast: A losing bidder for the DoD multibillion moving contract will submit additional evidence in its lawsuit. Disabled workers for federal contracting jobs will now get, at least, the federal minimum wage. And Senate lawmakers want agencies to begin preparing for a quantum leap in computing.
Brandon DeVault, a security author for Pluralsight and a cyber threat hunter on the Mission Defense Team for the Florida National Guard, writes about the power of zero trust and his passion for its implementation.
OPM wants to level the playing field for agencies trying to recruit and retain cybersecurity specialists.
While small and mid-size contractors might find it tempting to take a wait-and-see approach to adjusting their internal protocols, acting sooner rather than later can yield benefits to DIB contractors of all sizes and in all sectors.
As the government's lead agency on cybersecurity, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency known as CISA keeps getting higher budgets, more people and more programs.
Jarrod Bruner, Capture Program executive in the Office of the Associate Director for Administration, said the U.S. Marshals Service had a problem with its core mission system bigger and more complex than anything they could fix at once.
The theory is quantum will be so powerful it will easily crack encryption algorithms conventional computers would take thousands of years to crack.
The more compute-intensive manufacturing becomes, the more companies and their factories need cybersecurity protection. Now a new cyber roadmap is out from a group called the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute. The group is backed by the Energy Department.
These days, government security IT groups no longer hold sole responsibility for their team’s cybersecurity efforts toward network and data protection. Cybersecurity now has visibility all the way up the chain and is a paramount requirement for all cloud migration and digital transformation strategies. But beyond that, strong security can serve as an enabler by giving confidence to an organization that information is being kept safe.
The board’s inaugural report also contains dozens of recommendations for government, industry and academia, including suggestions for how agencies could improve software security and transparency.
The House will consider several workforce-related amendments to the 2023 Defense Authorization Act, including bringing TSA employees under Title 5.