Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Secure Identity and Access Management

Nico Papafil, director of the General Services Administration’s 10x program, said the program will fund more such ideas than ever before in fiscal 2022.

The Federal Data Strategy development team, led by the Office of Management and Budget, released the strategy’s 2021 action plan Friday, setting new interagency goals for the year, while also assessing the progress agencies made under the last year’s action plan.

DHS’ recent rulemaking for a 2014 law gives the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency a lot of discretion in hiring cybersecurity people.

The technology that controls nuclear weapons dates back to the 1950s. Imagine if the control systems were online in the age of ransomware. Dr. Herb Lin has thought about exactly that and written a book called Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons.

Marianne Roth, the chief risk officer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the bureau built its enterprise risk management program around mission risks and strategic risks.

GSA’s strategy creates vertical contract duplication, unnecessarily increasing bid and proposal, contract administration, and program management costs, says the Coalition for Government Procurement’s Roger Waldron.

Officials are confronting a growing list of mobile-specific cybersecurity challenges with travel opening up and many employees working remotely.

As choices are examined and strategies perfected about Cloud Migration in the greater National Capital Region, one of the many federal-government spaces where important decisions are being executed is within the office of the Army CIO.