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DOD to Start Testing Secure Alternatives to Common Access Cards After Christmas

The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to replace the CAC card as a means for IT authentication.

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GSA Sees Great Potential in Transition to Next-Generation Network Tech

The Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Departments have taken steps to get ready for the shift to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, but the GSA wants all agencies to plan ahead.

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How Will Federal IT Priorities Shift with a New Administration?

Federal IT experts are thinking through how a Trump presidency will affect modernization, outsourcing and other technology efforts.

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Feds Need to Turn Big Data into ‘Smart Data,’ DHS Official Says

How can agencies develop the capabilities to make data more portable and self-protecting as the Internet of Things grows?

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NIST Unveils Guidelines to Enhance Security of IoT Devices

The new guidance is designed to help agencies, the private sector and academics engineer security into connected devices — from the start.

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Tony Scott: Federal Government Needs to Move to a Customer-Centric IT Model

Speaking at the FedTalks 2016 conference, the federal CIO said that agencies should focus on adopting shared IT services and improving the quality of cybersecurity defenses.

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Feds Want to Move Further Into the Cloud, but Face Security Concerns

Fully 85 percent of federal cloud adopters say their agency will increase spending on cloud computing in 2017, according to a MeriTalk survey.

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NSA, DHS and DOJ Highlight Security Threats Posed by IoT

Federal agencies are sounding the alarm over the need to secure thousands — soon to be millions — of connected devices inside the government.

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ELC 2016: Artificial Intelligence Can Help Analyze Security Threat Data

Cognitive computing technologies could help agencies make better sense of cybersecurity information, panelists said at the ACT-IAC Executive Leadership Conference.

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How Fannie Mae Used DevOps to Improve Its IT Operations

The lender has embraced DevOps as a way to speed up the delivery of IT environments, aid developers and cut costs.

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Presidential Transition Helps Lay the Foundation for New Era of Tech Policy

The General Services Administration is helping the campaigns get ready to start working and putting new tech plans in place after the election.

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FedRAMP Scores a Cloud Victory, as Microsoft Gets a Speedy Approval

The GSA’s FedRAMP Accelerated program approved the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online program for federal use in 15 weeks, six times faster than its previous authorization.

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How Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing Is Benefiting from the Cloud

At the BEP, mission-specific applications are being moved to the cloud following successful migrations of other apps.

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NSA and OPM Turn to Behavioral Analytics to Combat Insider Threats

Agencies see data analytics of log files and user behavior as a way to guard against internal security breaches.

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How the Commerce Department Sees Cybersecurity Differently

Commerce CISO Rod Turk says that segmentation of the agency’s architecture and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation are keeping it alert in a world of cyberthreats.

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DOD, Service Branches Say Cloud Migrations Will Depend on Missions, Interoperability

IT leaders at the nation’s service branches also argued that Software as a Service offerings give agencies the biggest return on investment.

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Education Department Prepares for the Mobile Workforce of the Future

As it seeks to refresh a major IT contract, the department wants to ensure that it can supply technology to a workforce that will be increasingly on the go.

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GSA Wants to Be One-Stop IT Modernization Shop, No Matter What Congress Does

The General Services Administration wants to lead the push to help agencies upgrade their legacy IT systems, regardless of whether Congress passes new laws to spur modernization.

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The Future of Federal Cybersecurity Is in Predictive Security Intelligence

The Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program is one tool agencies are using to get ahead of threats.

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DOD Aims to Make Cybersecurity a Fundamental Part of Its Tech Mission

In addition to measuring the effectiveness of cybersecurity measures on a running scorecard, the Pentagon is looking to build security into its acquisition process from the start.