OPM Cyber Breach
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The loss of data from the Office of Personnel Management continues to resonate throughout the federal government. It sparked a fresh look at how agencies manage their data and their cybersecurity. One cyber expert says it's time to make cyber a real, not an imagined, priority. Ari Rabkin is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute's Technology Policy Center. Federal Drive host Tom Temin asks him, wasn't cyber already a priority?
October 12, 2015 -
IRS commissioner John Koskinen wrote to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) that his agency needs to be part of the budget talks for increasing cybersecurity funding.
October 09, 2015 -
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Steve Russell (R-Okla.) called on the White House to find a more appropriate and secure location to store personal information gleaned from the security clearance process.
October 09, 2015 -
The Defense Department is asking Congress to shift $23 million in additional funds to cover a suite of credit monitoring services for its federal workers compromised by the OPM data breach.
October 05, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Beth Cobert said the department began sending notification letters to victims of the cyber breach. The letters include information about the identity theft protection and credit monitoring services.
October 01, 2015 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded a $1.8 million contract to Advanced Onion to build websites that help potential hack victims see if they've been affected by the breach.
October 01, 2015 -
The theft of more than 4 million fingerprints is a "black eye" on the face of the Office of Personnel Management, cybersecurity experts say, but it's also a reminder for all agencies and industry to consider the strength of their security access.
September 24, 2015 -
A new analysis by the Office of Personnel Management and the Defense Department shows hackers took the fingerprint data of 5.6 million employees as opposed to the 1.1 million people initially determined to have had this data breached back when the agency announced the second breach in July.
September 23, 2015 -
Agency senior leaders are finally giving cybersecurity the attention it deserves. Federal chief information officers say after a decade of warnings about the threats and risks to their data and networks, the OPM data breach brought home just exactly why cybersecurity is important. Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details of our exclusive new survey of federal CIOs, and why the OPM data breach was a cyber awakening for so many.
September 16, 2015 -
A new memo from Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Beth Cobert does little to ease her Inspector General's concerns with OPM's Infrastructure Improvement Project.
September 14, 2015 -
Following cyber penetrations of federal IT systems at the Office of Personnel Management and elsewhere, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it’s launching a comprehensive governmentwide counterintelligence campaign. It wants to head off future data thefts and blunt their impact. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, the program’s first phase will focus on preventing spear phishing attacks.
September 10, 2015 -
Responding to cyber penetrations into federal IT systems at the Office of Personnel Management and elsewhere, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Wednesday that it was launching a “comprehensive” and governmentwide counterintelligence campaign.
September 10, 2015 -
Congressman Will Hurd (R-Texas), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on IT, said he will use the FITARA scorecard currently under development to hold agencies accountable. He promised hearings on both FITARA and the OPM data breach this fall.
September 10, 2015 -
In Depth host Francis Rose sits down with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) for a conversation about some of the top stories impacting federal employees.
September 08, 2015 -
Congress returns after its August recess needing to complete 12 spending bills, deal with a looming fiscal deadline, and focus on cybersecurity and DoD issues.
September 07, 2015