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All software is guilty until proven innocent

COMMENTARY | Agencies must embrace "shifting left," an approach that takes securing software in mind at the beginning of the development lifecycle.

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Federated Learning Uses The Data Right on Our Devices

The development could be key for privacy advocates.

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Pass the CHIPS Act

Two former senior defense and intelligence leaders lay out the case for Congressional action to help the U.S. semiconductor industry.

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AI Scouts Brain Data to Spot Mental Illness Patterns

Artificial intelligence may be able to spot certain kids of medical conditions before symptoms get serious.

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Understanding NIST’s Post-Quantum Encryption Standardization and Next Steps for Federal CISOs

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently chose new cryptographic algorithms to defend against quantum computers.

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OMB's mixed messages on mobility are putting federal agencies at risk

COMMENTARY | Why the Office of Management and Budget needs to revise the 2022 FISMA Metrics and explicitly reinstate the mobility metrics and threat defense protections.

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Six Strategies for Transforming Citizen Service Delivery

President Biden wants to make it easier and more efficient to access critical government services. Here’s some ways to make that happen.

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Dear agency senior executive: You can make or break your next big tech initiative

You may have heard that modern principles can help you reduce risk on projects like yours, but changing the way you work isn't easy.

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Uncle Sam Isn't a Trustworthy Dude: So What is America To Do?

Americans’ trust in government is a quarter of what it was in the 1960s.

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No, Submitting Junk Data to Period Tracking Apps Won’t Protect Reproductive Privacy

Reproductive privacy is not guaranteed.

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Customer service at the National Security Agency

Steve Kelman finds a helping hand in the highly secretive spy shop.

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Achieving incident response maturity is critical for effective threat management

Agencies should take the principles outlined in CISA's playbooks and make them their own.

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Software Edits Images Via Human 'Mind Control'

The development has numerous potential applications.

Cybersecurity

Federal Government Gets Serious About Post-Quantum Encryption Protection

A Phase III PQE contractor talks about getting federal quantum protection deployed quickly. 

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Quantum Sensors—Unlike Quantum Computers—Are Already Here

And they’re improving at a rate that demands urgent attention.