Cybersecurity
Time to Get Going
Robert Rodriguez, founder of the Security Innovation Network, talks about the imperative to for government and business to collaborate in speeding innovative cybersecurity technology to market.
Cybersecurity
VA investigating security breach of veterans' medical data
In violation of department policies, physician assistant allegedly conducted an unauthorized download of two sets of clinical records in an attempt to conduct research, according to sources.
Cybersecurity
Security guidance to aid agencies in cloud computing push
Threat list is helpful but incomplete, analysts say.
Cybersecurity
Homeland Security wants you to know your cybersecurity ABCs
Napolitano announces campaign to collect the best ideas for improving the public's awareness and literacy of computer security.
Digital Government
Glitch prompts VA to shut e-health data exchange with Defense
Response to software bug, which mixed up patient information or provided incomplete records, showed safety checks worked and the system will be fixed by March 9, Veterans Affairs CIO says.
Modernization
Wiki in the works for sharing safest travel routes in Afghanistan
Network would replace ad hoc Internet communications among nonmilitary personnel with missions in war zone.
Modernization
Navy official calls for rapid deployment of unmanned vessels
Systems would be deployed at sea for weeks or months.
Cybersecurity
Monitoring federal networks, global supply chain part of cyber initiative
Among information the administration declassified is a call for acquisition reform to make sure technology products have not been developed to infiltrate networks and steal data.
Modernization
Technology: The problem and solution for Postal Service's $238 billion shortfall
USPS says improved Web presence and mobile apps are key initiatives in its strategy to climb out of the red.
Modernization
Army will tap its 'digital natives' for apps
Contest under way to award $30,000 in prize money for software programs that will fundamentally change the way the Army operates.
Digital Government
FCC to propose new video archive in national broadband plan
Video.gov would expand upon Data.gov by archiving agencies' video, information from other branches of government, and allowing public and broadcast media to contribute footage.
Modernization
Obama administration to focus 2011 IT budget on streamlining
Chief information officers say efficiency will be important in building security and transparency, and managing investments.
Digital Government
White House announces plan for review of all government IT projects
Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra says administration will crack down on programs that do not work and focus on the ones that perform.
Cybersecurity
Snowe: Cybersecurity coordinator lacks accountability
Committee heard from former federal cybersecurity officials and other experts who sounded alarm bells.
Cybersecurity
Determining the motives for cyberattacks can be tricky
Sometimes allowing an attack to play out generates useful leads, security specialist says.
Digital Government
Army studying use of virtual reality to treat post-traumatic stress
With more than a third of veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars suffering from PTSD, the service wants to compare the new therapy with traditional methods.
Modernization