Modernization
This Is How Feds Will Protect Sensitive Data in the Cloud
The so-called high-impact baseline has become a major priority because of recent demand from both the Defense Department and civilian agencies.
Cybersecurity
Surveillance disclosures haunt search for common ground on cybersecurity
The White House and Republicans in Congress are getting closer on cybersecurity, but industry has new concerns.
Cybersecurity
Accidental breach is top cyber threat concern
A survey of federal IT managers shows that while insiders pose a bigger danger, cybersecurity funding is targeted at exterior threats.
Digital Government
DHS to Launch Iris and Facial Recognition at the Border
The project is part of a coming overhaul of DHS' biometric system, which currently contains more than 170 million foreigner fingerprints and facial images.
Emerging Tech
Feds Get a How-To Guide for Responding to Social Media Hacks
If you’re a fed whose job involves dealing with your department’s social media accounts, this resource is worth a look.
Cybersecurity
Could this be the year for data-breach legislation?
Widespread support exists for creating a national data-breach reporting standard, but details remain to be ironed out.
Digital Government
Your Appliances May Be Spying on You
FTC issues privacy and security guidelines to the companies creating the Internet of Things.
Cybersecurity
Fed data at risk in attacks on university computers
DHS is warning that a college's information-filled IT infrastructure can provide access to sensitive federal networks.
Cybersecurity
TSA and Inspectors Tussle Over Redactions in JFK Tech Audit
A Jan. 23 review found numerous cyber gaps, most having to do with hazardous climates in computer rooms and missing fire protection systems.
Cybersecurity
NGA to merge CIO and IT services
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency reorganization is an effort to bolster IC ITE, an ambitious IC-wide IT architecture.
Cybersecurity
DHS IT compliance head moves to USDA
Richard Young is the new CIO at the Foreign Agricultural Service.
Cybersecurity
IG blasts secrecy on JFK IT security lapses
The DHS inspector general says TSA is unduly classifying embarrassing IT practices at the New York airport.
Cybersecurity
Mixed messages for VA IT
A report from Mandiant offers an upbeat assessment, but an IG report is critical of IT project management.
Cybersecurity
CIS gearing up for deferred action
Citizenship and Immigration Services wants to hire secure IT personnel ahead of an expected tsunami of new application forms.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Defile Crayola, Borrow F-35 Designs and Tick off Madonna
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
What Do CENTCOM’s Twitter Hack and GoDaddy Have in Common?
Two Tennessee Valley Authority sites were compromised in 2013, when an adversary broke in through a software flaw.
Cybersecurity