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OPM Cyber Breach
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) would like to see more focus and urgency by the Office of Personnel Management in its response to two major cyber breaches that have put the personnel information of millions of federal employees at risk.
June 23, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management\'s contract for credit monitoring services has come under scrutiny lately. OPM closed the bidding process after only 36 hours, which led several procurement experts to question whether the agency steered the contract toward Winvale. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has started looking into the contract, sending a letter to OPM Director Katherine Archuleta last week seeking answers about both the rationale for the contract award, as well as the performance of Winvale and its subcontractor CSID. Sen. Warner joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain what he wants to know and why he\'s so upset.
June 23, 2015 -
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Should Office of Personnel Director Katherine Archuleta resign over data breach? Weigh in and take our poll.
June 23, 2015 -
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No matter how nice you may couch the message, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, at the end of the day, when you\'re dumped, you\'re dumped.
June 23, 2015 -
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Washington is a city full of people with strong opinions, say Senior Correspondent Mike Causey. Some of the beliefs are genuinely held. Others are for rent.
June 22, 2015 -
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President Barack Obama wants to spend his last 18 months in office turning government technology on its head. Obama says government\'s procurement systems are broken, but he believes organizations like the U.S. Digital Service can change the way people develop, buy and use new technology. Tom Shoop is editor-in-chief at Government Executive magazine. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the likelihood of a major systemic change in the way government buys and implements new technology.
June 19, 2015 -
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Agencies now have 30 days to sprint to new cybersecurity standards after multiple data breaches at the Office of Personnel Management. But some chief information security officers say they are more concerned about what impact a cyber attack will have on their organization\'s reputation than the data itself that\'s at risk. That\'s according to a new report from the RAND Corporation, \"The Defender\'s Dilemma: Charting a Course Toward Cybersecurity.\" Martin Libicki, a senior management scientist and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, is a co-author of the report. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose what he heard from 18 CISOs about their cybersecurity operations.
June 19, 2015 -
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) joins in the questioning of how OPM made the decision to award a contract to Winvale for credit monitoring services. The senator and AFGE are hearing from current and former federal employees complaining about the services provided under the $20.7 million deal.
June 19, 2015 -
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The Office of Personnel Management offers new clues about the current and former federal employees affected by one data breach, while staying mum on the scope of another breach, thought to be much larger.
June 19, 2015 -
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\"There but for the grace of God go I.\" Every federal chief information officer could have said that on Tuesday as Donna Seymour was grilled by House lawmakers about the cyber breach sustained by the Office of Personnel Management. OPM\'s CIO survived her initial time on the House hot seat; she\'ll face fire from the Senate soon. But any federal CIO could easily be in that position next week, next month or next year. Federal News Radio\'s executive editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what CIOs and other federal technology managers should be doing to stay out of the hot seat.
June 19, 2015 -
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The Office of Management and Budget wants to create a cyber playbook, and a digital services teams focused on IT security. Tony Scott, the federal CIO, said industry also must play a bigger role by automatically enabling two-factor authentication and using more secure chips.
June 19, 2015 -
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As saying goes, ever dark cloud has a silver lining. That\'s true for the recent OPM cyber breach. You just have to look very, very, very hard to find it, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
June 19, 2015 -
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Federal News Radio asked readers how they rated the performance of the Office of Personnel Management in communicating information about the recent data breaches. An overwhelming number rated the information as \"poor\" and many still didn\'t understand what happened or what they should do next.
June 18, 2015
