The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) expects to roll out its Thunderdome program to 60 sites in fiscal year (FY) 2024 – thus far the agency has deployed the zero trust program to 23 sites, an agency spokesperson confirmed. […]
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued a final ruling under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure the accessibility of web content and mobile apps for people with disabilities. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued guidance on Wednesday that details how to protect election infrastructure from foreign malign influence operations. […]
While a total ban on ransom payments to hackers remains “the ultimate goal” for cybersecurity experts, critical infrastructure organizations need stronger cybersecurity resilience before that happens, former acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden told lawmakers on April 16. […]
The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today that the Federal government has a “powerful” ability to mandate security standards for software vendors through its procurement process. […]
The Department of the Air Force’s CIO office has named Keith Hardiman director of enterprise information technology, according to a LinkedIn post. […]
As the IRS moves forward with deploying artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into agency operations, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said this week that the pace of adoption will remain cautious in the interests of protecting taxpayer privacy. […]
A group of industry experts called on Congress this week to enforce minimum cybersecurity standards among healthcare organizations in light of the February ransomware attack on UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare. […]
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) – an agency of the Department of Defense (DoD) that handles most of the Federal government’s personnel security vetting tasks – has chosen Edward Lane to serve as the new program executive officer (PEO) at DCSA. […]
Federal CIO Clare Martorana forecasted this week that the hundreds of millions of dollars of investments that the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) has made in recent years to jumpstart Federal agency security improvements will be bearing fruit within the next 12 months. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has seen a successful rollout so far of its Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program at the agency’s North Chicago site, but deploying the new system amid the Change Healthcare ransomware attack has raised new challenges. […]
The Department of Commerce has announced the appointment of five new members to the executive leadership team of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI). […]
As artificial intelligence technologies continue to rapidly evolve, Federal agencies are looking to upskill their AI workforce to keep pace with emerging cybersecurity threats. […]
Tom Kennedy, vice president of Axonius Federal Systems, said on April 16 that the company expects to receive FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) authorization for its hosted service offering for the Federal government in the near term. […]
The former policy lead for the Department of Defense (DoD) under President Barack Obama said Tuesday that while the Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS) calls for secure-by-design technology principles, the White House doesn’t actually have the authority to regulate that. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced today that Director Kiran Ahuja will step down from her role in the next several weeks. […]
As technological complexity continues to expand, it’s more important than ever for government agencies to invest in upskilling and incentivizing their workforces in the use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) products, a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) technology official said today at the Axonius Adapt conference in Washington. […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is having trouble gaining visibility into the masses of data on its networks even as the agency modernizes IT systems, a top official at NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) said today. […]
While the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) developed its Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program in 2012 with a monolithic software architecture, a top CISA tech official said today the program is looking to evolve to become “a lot more flexible and modular.” […]
A review of the Defense Department’s component-level zero trust security implementation plans is painting a clearer picture of trends and challenges running through the three-dozen-plus plans – including the vital importance of proper funding for components, and achieving interoperability across component zero trust plans – to meet DoD’s 2027 zero trust deployment goal. […]
Former chief of the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command said today that the Federal government and industry must be prepared to work together in the face of adversarial attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure like the electric grid. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) issued a cybersecurity information sheet (CIS) on Monday to share best practices for deploying secure and resilient AI systems. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in an April 9 report that the IRS maybe underestimating the true cost of its Direct File tax system pilot, which allows taxpayers to file their tax returns electronically and for free with the agency. […]
COVID-19 may never leave us entirely, but the White House took official steps last week to ramp down much of the preventative guidance it had put in place while the pandemic was raging in 2020 and 2021. […]
Democratic lawmakers are lining up behind key Biden administration anti-fraud proposals, with a group of Senators unveiling legislation last week that includes key provisions to address systemic pandemic fraud and prevent future fraud schemes, and a key House lawmaker chiming in with legislation today. […]
The Department of Commerce announced a preliminary agreement today for up to $6.4 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act for Samsung Electronics to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development (R&D) to central Texas. […]
U.S. Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leo Garciga released a new policy earlier this month that aims to create a “chain of responsibility” around the service branch’s data to guide how the Army can manage it efficiently and effectively. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) issued a cybersecurity information sheet (CIS) on April 9 detailing recommendations for maturing data security and enforcing access to data in transit and at rest. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program is focusing closely on a range of goals for the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2024 including expanding the program’s asset management capabilities to include mobile and cloud services, and leveraging the fruits of the program’s endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities to help CISA provide better security intelligence across Federal civilian agencies. […]
The IRS is moving both with deliberation and an expansive set of possibilities as it studies how the agency can take advantage of generative artificial intelligence technologies, a senior IRS tech official said at the Salesforce World Tour D.C. 2024 event on April 10. […]