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Business Continuity for Government Agencies
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Coronavirus’ closures of government facilities or enforcement of social distancing hasn’t stopped Congress from conducting business.
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Throughout the pandemic, Congress has not missed the Congressional Record. Nor have Executive Branch agencies missed the Federal Register. All thanks to the Government Publishing Office.
The coronavirus pandemic multiplied the need for agency wide telework capabilities and that also means more security concerns. Venice Goodwine, chief information security officer for the Agriculture Department, said her agency took a phased approach with capacity tests across different mission areas.
Patrick Sullivan, chief technology officer for security strategies at Akamai, recently joined Federal News Network to present options for increasing business continuity in a crushing environment of remote access and incredible traffic loads.
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Zero trust starts with its weakest link: The end users
Now more than a year past President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, federal agencies are ramping up efforts to achieve its mandates, including building a zero trust architecture.
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New course would teach feds to manage latest IT
Management of new information technology: It’s always been a challenge in the federal government. Now a new course at the University of Maryland’s business school aims to fix that. Many federal career mangers have voiced a need for such a course. Professor and Assistant Dean Joe Bailey joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
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With software memo out, OMB moves into cyber EO implementation phase
Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, said the focus on securing commercial software comes from the cyber executive order.
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Visibility into agencies’ digital terrain is key to identifying Log4j vulnerabilities
From industry to government agencies, the impacts of the Apache Log4j vulnerability have been felt globally. The U.S. public sector has become especially vulnerable due to the magnitude of applications within agencies’ networks, its lack of resources and funding, and its involvement in escalating foreign conflicts.
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Pandemic broke down some, but not all barriers for IGs
The Association of Government Accountants will release its 10th annual survey of inspector generals in the coming months with a focus on the impact of the pandemic on the audit community.
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Biden’s pick to lead NARA eyes veterans’ request backlog, agency digitization deadline
If the Senate confirms her, the White House’s nominee for national archivist said the veterans’ record request backlog would be the “most important discrete problem” facing her.
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CIO shop is helping to lead OPM’s recovery from the failed merger
CIO Guy Cavallo and deputy CIO Melvin Brown are bringing the lessons they learned from the Small Business Administration to change OPM’s culture, modernize its technology and address long-standing workforce issues.
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Zero trust delivers zero value without full asset visibility
The federal government is all in on a zero trust approach. Continued migration to the cloud; the move to mobile and bring-your-own-device; the convergence of IT, operational technology and Internet of Things; and the sharp increase in remote working due to the pandemic have changed how the government must approach cybersecurity.
