Cybersecurity

Will more money for VA fix the IT 'deficiencies'?

Fiscal 2015 budget request would boost funding for IT security, but legislators have their doubts.

Cybersecurity

Involving the C-suite in risk management

Leaders throughout the organization need to join forces to more systematically and proactively address security threats

Modernization

Cloud Security Frees Up NOAA's Workforce

Centralizing networks lets human eyes cover more than 1 billion cyber transactions a day for signs of hacking.

Cybersecurity

Report: Target Breach Succeeded Because Retailer Didn't React to Its Own Safeguards

The hack compromised 40 million credit and debit cards.

Cybersecurity

Panel votes to tighten federal website security

Under the legislation, any federal website that collects personally identifiable information from users would have to be certified as secure by the agency CIO before going live.

Cybersecurity

DHS cyber framework team named

The group will work under Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity and Communications Phyllis Schneck.

Cybersecurity

The NSA Is Using Facebook to Hack Into Your Computer

The spy agency is not above posing as the social-media site, according to Snowden files.

Cybersecurity

CBP unveils revamped website

The redesign of the Customs and Border Protection portal is the first in the DHS agency’s existence.

Cybersecurity

Agencies at odds over border tech

CBP official Mark Borkowski complained that the agency's new system was being unfairly linked to the failed SBInet program.

Cybersecurity

Federal Website Security Bill Moves Forward in House

Measure would require CIOs to certify websites collecting citizens’ information are safe.

Cybersecurity

FEMA's new CISO comes aboard

Donna Bennett was formerly the senior information assurance officer at National Defense University.

Cybersecurity

NSA Nominee Confirms Ukraine Is Under Cyberattack

Vice Adm. Michael Rogers warns the U.S. is also vulnerable.

Digital Government

75 Percent of Hospitals and Clinics Are Worried about HealthCare.gov Hacks

Most health facility operators surveyed said Obamacare, in general, increases the risk of compromising patient data.

Digital Government

The Government Already Has the Technology to Monitor Cleared Employees

A few coding tweaks are all that's needed to stop the next Snowden, former official says.

Cybersecurity

Budget request for classified IT climbs 14 percent

Difference between budget request and IT Dashboard data suggests $6.15 billion for fiscal 2015.

Cybersecurity

Next thing to worry about: Cybercrime as a service

New report suggests the tools to penetrate protected systems are increasingly bought, not built.

Cybersecurity

Russia's Holding Back Cyber Capabilities in Ukraine

'If Russia really wanted to deal a devastating blow . . . they could have definitely done it.'

Modernization

Obamacare Cloud Contract Will End Up Costing 10 Times Its Original Value

CMS extends its Verizon contract for seven months because of delays in moving to a new cloud host.