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In today’s Federal Newscast, Customs and Border Protection issues Accenture a partial stop work order to pause its nearly 300 million dollar contract to hire more border patrol agents.

The Air Force believes its new streamlined ATO process will not only get systems online faster, it will deliver better security.

In today’s Federal Newscast, Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is asking the Office of Special Counsel to rescind its recent memo prohibiting certain speech such as resist or impeachment.

Ellen Sundra, the vice president of Americas systems engineering for ForeScout Technologies, said, like most cybersecurity decisions, agencies need to balance risk and reward when it comes to IoT devices.

George DeLisle, federal director of Varonis, outlines five steps to create a repeatable process to improve your cybersecurity.

Recent House votes included bills on the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Energy, while committees on natural resources have made progress on a bill to cut down on national parks maintenance.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is spearheading an initiative to help agencies and organizations fill in the holes when it comes to implementation of data privacy protections.

The General Services Administration (GSA) has selected Ad Hoc and Fearless to upgrade the search.gov platform. 

NIST wants to make sure agencies understand the added challenges of cybersecurity for IoT. That’s why it’s producing a new guidance document on the subject.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released fresh guidance on derived personal identity verification credentials in the an ongoing federal challenge of improving cybersecurity for people using mobile devices.