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CIOs release updated guide to information sharing
The Federal Enterprise Architecture Security and Privacy Profile Version 3 is the CIO Council's latest guidebook for cross-agency information sharing.
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Circuit
Air traffic controllers reveal tricks; VA cancels credit-monitoring offer; Doan throws out first pitch at hometown baseball game; Quakers rally for judge dismissed from 10-year Indian trust fund case; FCW to hold Geekapalooza.
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House bill boosts DHS CIO, security positions
The officers would gain direct control over the budgets, workforce and operations of various DHS agencies.
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DARPA awards security pact
Analex won a one-year contract with four one-year options and a total potential value of $64.9 million.
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DHS disputes GAO purchase card criticism
The department says the assessment of card abuse is overstated.
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DOE: No privacy on agency computers
New policy requires employees and contractors to acknowledge in writing that investigators can have access to their DOE computers, and even affects the public.
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Davis introduces data breach notification act
Legislation would require agencies to make public notifications of security breaches.
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UPDATED: House drafts bill to improve VA's data security
It would create an undersecretary for information services and three deputies.
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UPDATED: TSA goes sole-source for Registered Traveler clearinghouse
The American Association of Airport Executives will manage enrollment for the traveler program.
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OMB issues FISMA guidance
A new memo highlights important elements for reporting security and privacy performance.
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DHS bill slashes research funds
DHS appropriations provides more IT funding, but critics say it lacks a vision.
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Congress to quiz top VA officials
Lawmakers riled by IG report on response to laptop theft.
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Court decision lifts cloud hanging over Interior
Federal appeals court reverses order that would have shut down much of Interior’s IT.
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Critical data loss from within spawns new market
Outbound content compliance segment is expected to hit $2 billion by 2009.
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OMB: Report all breaches within an hour
After hacks at several government agencies, the agency has revised its policy.
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UPDATED: Markle suggests ways info sharing, security can coexist
Public trust is critical to properly sharing information, the foundation and other experts say.
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Appeals court blocks shutdown of Interior computers
The court also removed U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth from the case he had overseen for a decade.
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IG slams VA for 'indifference' to laptop theft
The VA inspector general singles out the two top executives for mismanaging the department’s response to the potential loss of 26.5 million records of active and retired military personnel.
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Input: Cybersecurity threats, regs drive IT spending
Spending could rise to $6.3 billion in fiscal 2011, an 18.9 percent increase from fiscal 2006, the firm's report states.
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