OPM Cyber Breach

  • Katherine Archuleta's recent time in the congressional hot seat is a wake-up call for all agency executives. Chief information officers that oversee cyber at their agencies are scrambling to meet the 30-day cyber sprint imposed by Federal Chief Technology Officer Tony Scott. Steve Cooper is the chief information officer at the Commerce Department. He tells Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller why now is the opportunity for the entire agency to look at the way it does cyber.

    July 07, 2015
  • Commerce CIO Steve Cooper says his department is moving proactively to identify cybersecurity risks and eliminate vulnerabilities.

    July 07, 2015
  • Recent cybersecurity embarrassments at the Office of Personnel Management, the White House and the State Department have cybersecurity experts wondering how the government became so vulnerable. Their response: it hasn't always been this way.

    July 07, 2015
  • Charlie Allen and Terry Roberts of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance give their thoughts on the OPM breach and what agencies can do to protect themselves from future attacks. July 3, 2015 (Encore presentation July 10, 2015)

    July 06, 2015
  • Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) wants the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general to investigate the full-suite of systems OPM uses to store personal background investigation information.

    July 06, 2015
  • More information on the size of the second breach at the Office of Personnel Management will likely come this week. GovExec reports the agency will release the number of current and former federal employees -- and job applicants -- affected in the second cyberattack. Jeff Neal is senior vice president of ICF International and former chief human capital officer for the Homeland Security Department. He tells Depth with Francis Rose that the OPM data breach is far from over.

    July 06, 2015
  • With the e-QIP system shutdown for four-to-six weeks, OPM and ODNI told agencies to get hard copies of the forms from new hires, or employees or contractors needing reinvestigations.

    July 03, 2015
  • The Office of Personnel Management cyber breaches are pushing the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to encourage agencies to move to the Einstein program. That program is billed as a way to uncover intrusions. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, is working on the bill along with the chairman of the Committee, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Carper tells In Depth with Francis Rose why he and Senator Johnson think the bill is necessary and what they want it to accomplish.

    July 02, 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, 2015
  • In the aftermath of the massive data breach suffered by the Office of Personnel Management, the Homeland Security Department issues a new alert about targeted phishing attacks against federal employees and retirees. Federal News Radio asked cyber experts for advice on what victims should be on the lookout for from these bogus emails.

    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 Personnel Management says it's investigating the cyber breaches that allowed the loss of information of millions of federal employees. Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose is former the Chief Information Officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He's now president of the Meyerrose Group. He tells In Depth at Francis Rose about what to expect next after OPM's cyber breaches.

    July 01, 2015
  • A recent petition posted to the White House's We the People website calls on the government to offer lifetime identity protection for current and former federal employees impacted by the cybersecurity breaches at the Office of Personnel Management. 100,000 signatures are needed by July 19, 2015, in order for the White House to respond to the request.

    July 01, 2015
  • Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) says the Office of Personnel Management needs to do more to restore federal employees and Congressional members’ confidence in its ability to get the job done. He says a recent personal experience didn’t help OPM’s cause. Connolly tells executive editor Jason Miller about that personal experience and why OPM needs to perform better — and do it quickly.

    July 01, 2015