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Cybersecurity

Some of Einstein 3A lost its value leaving CISA no choice but shut it down

In an email to agencies earlier this fall, CISA says email filtering and DNS sinkholing capabilities are no longer as valuable as they once were and are going away in December.

Cybersecurity

Industry associations raise alarm bells over legislating software security

Reporter's Notebook

3 takeaways from FITARA 14

Cybersecurity

Congress wants to overhaul FISMA. Agencies are already measuring security differently

Acquisition

What's different — if anything — about Biden's 'Buy American' agenda from past directives?

Reporter's Notebook

Is CISA’s third cyber emergency directive in five months a sign that things are getting worse?

Cybersecurity

Agency CIOs facing new deadlines to address Microsoft email threat

Chris DeRusha is the Federal Chief Information Security Officer.

People

Veteran of White House, DHS steps into federal CISO role

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Reporter's Notebook

When it comes to bid protests, vendors playing with even money at GAO

Russell Vought

Reporter's Notebook

Deadline to send data to federal cyber dashboard coming in 2021

Grant Schneider is the federal chief information security officer

People

Schneider leaving federal CISO role for private sector

Business, technology, internet and networking concept.

Reporter's Notebook

EINSTEIN and TIC never got along, and TIC 3.0 makes their break-up official

Mourners gather during a funeral procession for Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Basra, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Thousands of people gathered in Basra on Tuesday to bid farewell to Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a senior Iraqi militia commander who was killed in a US airstrike on Friday. (AP Photo)

Cybersecurity

Cyber threat from Iran sparks warning from CISA, 'heightened vigilance' from agencies

Business, technology, internet and networking concept.

Management

After a dozen years, agencies are freed from restrictive cyber policy

The witness chair in the House Judiciary Committee is expected to be without former White House Counsel Don McGahn, who was a key figure in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. President Donald Trump directed McGahn to defy a congressional subpoena to testify but the committee's chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., has threatened to hold McGahn in contempt of Congress if he doesn't appear. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Reporter's Notebook

Senate committee details cyber deficiencies at 8 agencies, but is that the whole story?

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Federal Drive

What can happen when federal contractors sue agencies

Eli Meir Kaplan

Technology

A look into biometrics past and future

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Reporter's Notebook

First of 3 new cyber policies overhauls review, repair of critical systems

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Reporter's Notebook

Draft policy pushes interagency committee to better address building security

Businessman pressing touch screen button with hexadecimal code. Password protection concept.

Reporter's Notebook

GSA’s central contractor website victimized by fraud for second time

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Federal Drive

How can agencies close the cybersecurity gap?

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Reporter's Notebook

GSA decision to debar contractor is overruled after judge calls it ‘arbitrary and capricious’

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Government Shutdown

4 things for contractors to remember in planning for a possible government shutdown