Analytics in Government

About a third of all cyber incidents federal agencies faced last year were unknown or outside the typical spam, phishing or web authentication vectors. The Office of Management and Budget says the prevalence of this attack vector suggests additional steps should be taken to ensure agencies appropriately categorize the vector of incidents during reporting.

This discussion, with Matt Soltis, the vice president of Cloud Solutions at GDIT, is part of Federal News Network’s Cloud Exchange

Kaouk will join OPM in October as its CDO and deputy director for human capital data management and modernization, a USDA spokesman told Federal News Network.

There’s something wrong with cybersecurity in 2021, and it has to do with the way organizations are approaching protecting their networks. According to Helen Patton, Advisory Chief Information Security Officer for Duo Security, organizations need to be more skeptical when it comes to accessing networks, a concept called zero trust.

Matt Miller, the acting commissioner for the Bureau of Fiscal Service in the Department of Treasury, said he hopes the four legacy shared services providers are early adopters of the new financial management standards.

The NGA is trying to flip the script on how U.S. spy agencies consider geospatial intelligence sources.

As the Biden administration implements infrastructure programs, cyber defense must be at the core, and perimeter, of all modernization initiatives.

As digital transformation progresses in nearly every sector, zero trust has become, for many, the security model of choice. However, Okta’s federal chief security officer, Sean Frazier is one of the lead technology executives who’s concerned that “implementing zero trust has left security leaders struggling to make some shifts in strategy and fundamental architecture” which are required by the EO.