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Adopting web application security can help optimize workflow, drive efficiencies and meet agency missions.
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Achieving web application security
Adopting web application security can help optimize workflow, drive efficiencies and meet agency missions.
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Honorably Serving Our Veterans Wherever the Mission Goes
The VA Has an Opportunity to Rethink Its Cybersecurity Posture in the New Normal with Cloud Web Isolation.
Covid-19 and its impact have pushed federal workers out from behind the firewall to the edge of the network in home offices. Fortunately, th… Continue reading Honorably Serving Our Veterans Wherever the Mission Goes
Leading transformation by cultivating data catalysts in your agency
Government agencies looking to make better decisions from the data they collect have more resources within reach than they might suspect. But senior leaders need to take steps to identify the hidden data champions in their midst and encourage them to become catalysts in their organizations, according to a new report. “Data and analytics catalysts,” are those who have a “natural ability to drive change,” and are given the necessary foothold to help an organization understand the value of a “data-driven enterprise,” the report says. The report, released by Booz Allen Hamilton, suggests the most promising candidates are those who have instinctive leadership skills, have a flair for making sense of data, know how to engage stakeholders and are able to nurture talented individuals to join in their initiative. Agencies don’t need to create new positions or add staff, the report says, but focus instead on developing the talent and […]
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Lagging Legacy Systems: How Federal Agencies Are Tackling Old IT
If you’re a U.S. taxpayer, you’ve likely heard how Tax Day 2018 was uniquely rocky for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A series of technical problems prevented the IRS from processing tax returns filed electronically on 17 April. The ag… Continue reading Lagging Legacy Systems: How Federal Agencies Are Tackling Old IT
U.S. official is first to helm new NATO IT and cyber agency
Intelligence community management veteran and former Defense Department Deputy Comptroller Kevin Scheid has taken up his new post as general manager of the NATO Communications and Information Agency, NCIA, where he will oversee a multibillion-dollar IT and cybersecurity modernization program for the 29-nation military alliance. NCIA, which operates and defends NATO IT and telecommunications networks, announced the news at the weekend. “I plan to take the first 90 days, like most new heads of large organizations, and do some deep-dives in some key areas, to make sure I understand the status and state of the agency,” Scheid told the NCIA in-house journal. “First, I’ll hold deep dives in the areas of finance … personnel management and the contract issues and how that is progressing, in acquisition, as well as the management of the organization. Do we have the right management structure for the Agency?” Beginning in the fall, Scheid will lead NCIA in a two-year, $3.4 billion IT modernization […]
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OMB stakes out central role in cyber, IT modernization
The White House Office of Management and Budget will be at the center of the Trump administration’s move to modernize and secure federal computer networks, the government’s senior-most IT official said Wednesday. The agency is at the hinge where several important IT initiatives meet the federal budgeting process, explained acting federal CIO Margie Graves. Not only does it help implement the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, or FISMA, but it also has new tasks under the cybersecurity executive order signed recently. Under the EO, every federal agency or department has to conduct a risk assessment using the Cybersecurity Framework developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and then submit it to the OMB director and the Homeland Security secretary. That process, she told the Public Sector Innovation Summit presented by VMware, was the essential underpinning for both security and modernization efforts because it identifies the areas where investment is needed. It also had the added benefit […]
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Trump signs long-awaited cybersecurity executive order
President Trump signed an executive order on cybersecurity Thursday, saying his administration will begin to manage cyber-risk across the U.S. government as a whole, hold agency heads personally responsibility for the protection of their networks and place modernization of federal IT at the heart of efforts to bolster computer security. “We spend a lot of time and inordinate money protecting antiquated and outdated systems,” said Thomas Bossert, the president’s homeland security adviser, who made a surprise appearance at the podium during the daily White House press briefing to announce the signing. The EO, which had originally been scheduled to be signed in January — only to be pulled the day of the planned signature — has been circulating in increasingly detailed draft form since then, but the signing Thursday came out of the blue on a day the White House continued to struggle with the fallout from the president’s shock decision to fire FBI Director James […]
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White House: Cyber executive order is close, will be ‘intertwined’ with federal IT modernization
The Trump administration is “close” to unveiling its cybersecurity executive order and is carefully aligning its policy in that area with plans for modernizing federal IT networks, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Robert Joyce said Monday in his first public comments since taking office. “We must make sure that innovation and cybersecurity are intertwined,” Joyce told an international cybersecurity conference at Georgetown University. He said the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was working with White House tech policy aides Chris Lidell and Reed Cordish on “a major effort” in Kushner’s newly minted Office of American Innovation to develop “approaches for the president’s consideration to modernize federal IT systems, retire outdated systems and move to shared services.” White House staff would ensure that the two initiatives “are closely aligned,” Joyce said. “I get to participate in, my staff gets to participate in those meetings,” he said of the innovation office’s work on federal IT. Asked whether modernization policy […]
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Bossert promises funding, centralization for federal cybersecurity
President Donald Trump’s budget outline, slated for release Thursday, will propose significant increases in funding for federal cybersecurity, White House homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert said Wednesday. “President Trump intends to put his money where his mouth is,” Bossert said in his his first major policy speech. “Cybersecurity will be funded through DHS and the Department of Defense,” he told the Center for Strategic and International Studies in a keynote address at its Cyber Disrupt 2017 event. Privately, he told a small group prior to his remarks that there would be a “significant plus up” for cyber programs in both DHS and the Pentagon, one of the organizers told CyberScoop. Bossert also promised that the Obama administration’s push to modernize and centralize federal computer networks will continue under Trump. “Federal networks at this point can no longer sustain themselves. We cannot tolerate indefensible technology, outdated antiquated hardware and software,” Bossert said. “Modernization […]
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