Office of Management and Budget
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The risk of cyber attacks -- like the recent OPM cyber breaches -- are exactly the type of events risk management programs are designed to identify and plan for. The Treasury Department is one agency that has stood up an entire office to strategize enterprise risk management -- well in advance of OMB guidance for 2016. Montrice Yakimov is the chief risk officer for the Bureau of Fiscal Service at the Treasury Department and leads its Office of Enterprise Risk Management. She tells Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller why Treasury's mission itself prompted the agency to develop a risk management portfolio.
July 13, 2015 -
Danny Werfel, the former acting IRS commissioner, sheds light on the challenges Beth Cobert, the new acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, will face leading an agency in trouble.
July 13, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management was improving the cybersecurity of its IT systems, when it discovered hackers had breached two of its networks.
July 10, 2015 -
As news of a second major cyber breach at the Office of Personnel Management spread, the Office of Management and Budget gave agencies a month to fix their systems. Federal CIO Tony Scott ordered agencies to take immediate and specific actions in the so-called 30-day sprint. Now, those 30 days are almost up. Ralph Khan is vice president of Federal at Tanium. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to assess whether these measures have had any effect.
July 09, 2015 -
The National Treasury Employees Union sues the Office of Personnel Management over the agency's recent cyber attacks. NTEU says OPM violated its members' informational privacy rights. It filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Carrie Cordero is a lawyer and adjunct law professor at Georgetown University Law Center and former counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security. She tells In Depth co-host Jared Serbu that OPM's recent cyber breaches have raised a few different privacy questions.
July 08, 2015 -
The government’s latest budget playbook, the Circular A-11, for the first time includes a specific mention of climate-smart buildings.
July 06, 2015 -
The law enforcement response to what turned out to have been a false alarm at the Washington Navy Yard last week was quite different than the actual active shooter situation in 2013.
July 06, 2015 The blame for the Office of Personnel Management cyber breach is on OPM right now. But OPM said the breach wasn't its fault. Larry Allen is president of Allen Federal Business Partners and writes the Week Ahead newsletter. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose where the finger gets pointed when something goes wrong.
July 02, 2015Get ready for a real crackdown on cybersecurity practices. Agencies have less than two weeks to make sure all their systems administrators and other employees, known as privileged users, can only log on using their smart identification cards. The Office of Management and Budget sets hard deadlines for agencies, and it seems like they're serious this time. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with exclusive details on this new requirement under the administration’s 30-day cyber sprint.
July 02, 2015-
The Office of Management and Budget gives agencies a summer deadline to implement smart ID cards for network and computer access. The White House wants system administrators and other privileged users to use two-factor authentication by mid-July and all employees by the end of August.
July 02, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget wants grant-making agencies to have access to all the past performance data on grantees as part of their broader effort to improve the grant-making process. Agencies award more money in grants than on contracts.
July 01, 2015 -
Three hearings. Nearly seven hours of testimony. Enough frustration to fill the Potomac River. That was Katherine Archuleta’s week. The director of the Office of Personnel Management had a bullseye on her back as House…
June 30, 2015 -
Four major overhauls can turn massive data breaches from disasters to catalysts for change. Attracting talented cyber professionals and streamlining the IT cyber acquisition process are some of the key ingredients Richard Spires recommended to the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. He is the former chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service, and now CEO of Resilient Network Systems. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that he sees systemic weaknesses in government IT security that need to be fixed now.
June 29, 2015 -
Similar to the Office of Personnel Management, agencies are struggling to move off of previous generations of technology. Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott said the government is at a “critical inflection point” and needs to change its approach to buying and securing IT.
June 29, 2015 -
Tony Scott, the federal chief information officer, said he fully supports OPM Director Katherine Archuleta and CIO Donna Seymour in their efforts to address long-standing cyber challenges, and cautions lawmakers to ‘be careful about distinguishing fire starters from firefighters.’
June 26, 2015