multi-factor authentication

Federal payroll website for over 170 agencies gets a cybersecurity update

The National Finance Center just implemented a multifactor authentication system for agencies to access employee payroll data, and more cybersecurity updates…

IT Modernization

Air Force wants to show airmen how to fuel themselves up

Federal Newscast

Achieving zero trust requires changing data security views

Commentary

FILE - In this March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. As millions of Americans file their income tax returns, their chances of getting audited by the IRS have rarely been so low. The number of people audited by the IRS last year dropped for the sixth straight year, to just over 1 million. The last time so few people were audited was 2004, when the population was significantly smaller. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS ‘struck a nerve’ with facial recognition, but pieces missing in fight against fraud

Agency Oversight

Final zero trust strategy both prescriptive, flexible enough to achieve end goals

Ask the CIO

Why maybe, just maybe, the era of the password is finally sunsetting

Cybersecurity

GAO

GAO looking for balance and best practices of identity verification

Technology

FILE - In this Thursday, May 2, 2019 file photo, Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas. President Joe Biden’s administration is refusing to allow lawyers who inspect facilities where immigrant children are detained to enter a Border Patrol tent in Texas where agents are holding hundreds of youths. The attorneys say they were allowed to speak to children at the facility in Donna on Thursday, March 11, 2021 but were denied the chance to see the areas where the youths were being held. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Customs and Border Protection uses large toolbox for identity and access management

Technology

Federal cyber agencies call zero trust ‘new normal’ of security, partnering to implement

Cybersecurity

How agencies can balance good customer experience with the need for lots of security

Cybersecurity

Ready for CMMC? Here’s how you can get there

Commentary

How to choose the right multifactor authentication program

Many agencies have turned to commercial multifactor authentication solutions as an alternative to PIV cards with a huge chunk of the federal workforce…

Cybersecurity

Other methods to determine who’s eligible for government benefits

IRS staff members knew ahead of time that some of the individual payments for pandemic relief would go to the deceased because of how timely vital records…

Big Data

Men is typing on laptop computer keyboard

For the federal government, endpoints have left the building

Federal Insights

As they transition, Federal agencies must continue to defend against threats on their existing infrastructure while extending that protection to the exploding number of remote endpoints connecting to their networks.