NIST Issues Guidance for Baking-in IT Security During Development
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the first of four guideline documents meant to adapt widely used …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersEvolving Technology Prompts DISA to Issue New Strategic Plan
The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a new 2014 – 2019 strategic plan, replacing an earlier 2013 – 2018 …More
DISA Issues Mobility Guidance for Andriod / Samsung
The Defense Information Systems Agency hasreleased version 2.0of its Android/Samsung Knox capability under the DoD Mobility Unclassified Capability to mission …More
High Praise for CIO That Lead GSA Cloud Initiative
GSA’s acting CIO, Sonny Hashmi is a finalist for the Partnership for Public Service’s Service to America Medal in the …More
Defense IT Exchange Pilot Extended Through 2018
DoD has issued a final rule in the May 14 Federal Register extending a public / private IT employee exchange …More
Working Group Issues Government Open and Structured Content Models
A government “structured and open content models working group” is trying to get agencies to adopt and contribute to data …More
Air Force Looking to Expand Use of iPads in Maintenance Groups
The Air Force has announced it is testing the use of iPads with the 20th Maintenance Group Airmen at Shaw …More
DHS: Watch out for Introverts, Egotists, Passive Aggressive Colleagues
The DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center has issued a guide meant to help organizations guard against malicious insider …More
Most Government Prize Competitions are for Software and IT
Nearly half of all prize competitions conducted by federal agencies in fiscal 2013 were carried out to find software solutions …More
White House Announces Open Data Action Plan
The White House has announced an open data action plan to build on recent open data efforts beginning with an …More
PortfolioStats to Continue Focus on Commodity IT Consolidation
OMB has issued PortfolioStat IT project review guidance, calling for continued emphasis on consolidating commodity IT for the remainder of …More
Report: DDoS Attacks Increasingly Used as a Smokescreen
Distributed Denial of Service attacks (bombarding a server with requests) are becoming more frequent and one reason why is that …More
IG:Quicker Cyber Attack Response Time Needed at Commerce
Bureaus within the Department of Commerce have established varying incident detection and response capabilities, but need to more quickly respond …More
White House Issues Report Addressing Technical Side of Big Data, Privacy
The White House Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has issued a report, Big Data: A Technological Perspective, detailing …More
Video Posted from NIST Privacy Engineering Workshop
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has posted video from a recent two-day Privacy Engineering Workshop for privacy policy …More
NIST Revises Transport Layer Security Guide
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced an update to a document that helps computer administrators maintain the …More
Army HR Establishes Cyber Branch
The Army announced that its HR Command has established a provisional Cyber Branch to provide career management, development and readiness …More
Delivering Information to the Wrong Recipients Biggest Issue for Government
The biggest category affecting public organizations is miscellaneous error – defined by the report as, “Incidents where unintentional actions directly …More
DHS Monitoring for Heartbleed Exploits
DHS announced last week that it had enabled its network defenses across the Executive branch to detect someone trying to …More
GitHub for Government Recap Video
A recap of a recent webinar on how to use the Github collaboration platform for government is available on Youtube. …More
Social Media Toolkits in Development
Three new government social media toolkits are in development for public comment and improvement on the Github platform, according to …More
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Pushes Code toGitHub
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has announced it joined GitHub to facilitate collaboration and help other organizations benefit from its software …More
US Military Academy Wins NSA Cyber Defense Challenge
The National Security Agency has announced that the US Military Academy won its 2014 Cyber Defense Exercise – CDX. Students …More
Air Force Testing Google Glass for Combat Use
The Air Force is investigating ways it might use Google Glass on the battlefield. It said researchers at the 711th …More
Report Examines Managing Risk with Mobile
The Mobile Work Exchange (formerly the Telework Exchange) has summarized basic steps agencies need to take to better manage the …More
NIST Releases Mobile App Vetting System
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has releasedthe first version of an open source mobile app vetting system. AppVet …More
GAO Identifies Weaknesses in SEC Financial Management System Controls
The Securities and Exchange Commission has made progress strengthening information security controls, but weaknesses exist in several controls for a …More
IG Says IRS Lax Software License Management Cutting into IT Budget
Mainframe software license management at the IRS is not being adequately performed, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has …More
GSA Issues Information Request for Networx Successor
GSA has issued a request for information for the NS2020 Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions – EIS, acquisition initiative, intended to replace …More
NIST Cloud Computing Conference Videos Posted
The National Institute of Science and Technology has posted video of athree-day workshop – “Intersection of Cloud and Mobility” – …More
