Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) say it’s time to reconsider having only one person per agency with the title chief information…
Veterans Affairs faces a budget shortfall of more than $2.5 billion this year, mainly because of increased demand by veterans for health care. The problem…
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,…
Five agencies score zero on using strong authentication with their IT networks. That’s according to the White House’s annual compliance review of the Federal Information Security Management Act. Nextgov reports three of those agencies had cybersecurity breaches in recent years. Simon Szykman is chief technology officer for the federal services division at Attain, and former chief information officer of the Commerce Department. He broke down the results from the 2014 FISMA review on In Depth with…
