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The federal government has a trust problem after the OPM cyber breaches. Federal News Radio wanted to know what the people who were affected by the breach thought about the response from OPM and from the government overall. Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp has a preview of the survey results and she explains what we wanted to know from the people who participated.
July 22, 2015 -
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UPDATED: A key Senate committee approved an amendment today to give federal employees no less than 10 years of identity and credit-monitoring services and $5 million in liability protection for related damages.
July 22, 2015 -
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A new report from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology cites OPM's scattered IT governance, lack of cybersecurity experts and lack of cyber threat detection technology as the major pitfalls leading to OPM's cyber breach. The Federal Drive's Tom Temin spoke with Dan Waddell, a lead contributor on the study, about what OPM needs to do to secure its systems for the future.
July 22, 2015 On this edition of "Ask the CHCO", host Lauren Larson interviews the U.S. Intelligence Community's Chief Human Capital Officer Deborah Kircher.
July 22, 2015-
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Your agency will have to help pay for the credit monitoring and identity protection services for the 21 million current and former federal officials whose data was stolen from the Office of Personnel Management. OPM tells agencies it will raise its fees and require agencies to contribute funding for the next three years to help pay for these services. Federal News Radio’s Executive Editor Jason Miller joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more details and reaction.
July 22, 2015 -
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The OPM data breaches should serve as a wake up call to federal agencies that they can no longer just selectively comply with the findings from security audits. That's according to a new report from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT). Dan Waddell is the director of government affairs at (ISC)2 and one of the contributors to the report. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on what ICIT found and what it recommends.
July 22, 2015 -
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Gen. Mark Milley said at his confirmation hearing to become the new Army chief of staff that his service still could meet the demand signal for Army forces, despite recent budget cuts. That could change, though, if demands continue to increase and if budgets continue to decrease.
July 22, 2015 -
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A Government Accountability Office report released earlier this month states the Office of Personnel Management isn't properly communicating employee engagement strategies with other agencies.
July 22, 2015 -
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The USPS is one of the government's giant operations, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey. The amount of mail traffic it handles, and the distance it will haul a letter for 49 cents puts other national postal services to shame.
July 22, 2015 Federal Times editor Jill R. Aitoro joins host Mike Causey to talk about the OPM cyber attack. They will discuss among other things, what's next in the investigation, and what hackers plan to do with the information. July 23, 2015
July 21, 2015-
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Senate leaders agreed in principle to a six-year highway transportation fund bill that doesn’t try to raise money by changing the way the interest rate on the G-Fund is calculated. But Democrats stopped the bill from moving to a full vote because they wanted more time to read the entire bill.
July 21, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management is turning to the Homeland Security Department to help it set the standard for better federal cybersecurity. OPM is still recovery mode as it deals with the consequences of the biggest breach of federal employee data in history. Chris Cummiskey is the CEO of Cummiskey Strategic Solutions, a senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and former acting undersecretary for management at DHS. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that says DHS has five big items to tackle before it can — and should — lead the effort.
July 21, 2015 On this edition of “Disaster Relief for America”, hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview emergency management consultant John Shaner.
July 21, 2015-
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Once all the votes are tallied, the President-elect's transition team has only 77 days to learn everything it can from the outgoing administration on matters ranging from national security to personnel staffing.
July 21, 2015
