Shane Barney

Agencies grapple with data challenges amid zero trust push

Agencies have made great strides under the government-wide push to adopt zero trust security principles. But the latest challenge giving many CISOs a headache?…

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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2018, file photo, people arrive before the start of a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Miami Field Office in Miami. USCIS, The cash-strapped federal agency that oversees that nation's legal immigration system, scrapped plans Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, to furlough 13,000 employees, or nearly 70% of its workforce. The agency said it would maintain operations through September when the the fiscal year ends.  (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

USCIS, Millennium Challenge Corporation putting workforces at the front of their zero trust journey

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Automation is driving USCIS’s cyber improvements

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Automate, reskill and optimize are the three steps to a better SOC

Shane Barney, the chief Information Security Officer at USCIS, and Togi Andrews, the CISO at FEMA, say automation and reskilling of the workforce is part…

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Defense & Homeland Cloud Computing in Government 2020 “Progress & Best Practices”

This program provides a progress report on defense and homeland cloud computing in government.

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For the government, coding comes back in house

More civilian and military feds are writing code, reversing a long outsourcing trend.

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