Cybersecurity
What Does the Chemical Safety Board Have in Common with OPM and Target?
The board does not keep track of computer systems it has outsourced to contractors, which could jeopardize information confidentiality.
Digital Government
What's Leidos getting for $5B?
Washington Technology editor Nick Wakeman analyzes what Leidos is getting in its $5 billion acquisition of Lockheed Martin's Information Services and Global Solutions business.
Cybersecurity
Congress needs to catch up on cybersecurity issues
The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said Congress is lagging on issues such as encryption and securing energy grids from cyberattacks.
Cybersecurity
U.S. warned of exploit in Ukrainian cyberattacks
The cyberattacks that blacked out power systems in Western Ukraine late last year used techniques very similar to those ICS-CERT warned infrastructure companies about in 2014.
Acquisition
GSA inches towards making acquisition data public
After a year-long soft launch of its acquisition gateway portal to federal users, the agency is preparing to open its doors to public users.
Cybersecurity
Fear of lost privacy costs lives
A former CTO for the Veterans Affairs Department argues for the embrace of electronic health records.
Digital Government
The performance measures that managers hate
For metric-based management, Steve Kelman argues, it's important that the measures not be specified from on high.
Artificial Intelligence
Google’s AI Just Cracked the Game that Supposedly No Computer Could Beat
The ancient board game Go has long been one of the major goals of artificial intelligence research.
Cybersecurity
The Middle East’s Quietly Rising Cyber Super Power
Israel now has more than 300 cybersecurity companies, exports totaling $6 billion, and 20 percent of the world’s private cyber investment dollars.
Cybersecurity
Cybercrime Is Booming and the Internet of Things Will Just Make Things Worse
Hackers are getting better and businesses are increasingly at risk.
Cybersecurity
Report: IT Security Spending Set to Rise
The report argues that IT security is undergoing immense change, in part, thanks to the increasingly interconnected world of people, objects and infrastructure, known as the Internet of Things.
Digital Government
Data Trade Group: Transparency Isn’t Enough
The Data Transparency Coalition is renaming itself the “Data Coalition” to reflect the “broad impact” of open data.
Digital Government
Attention, Feds: Your Slack Messages are Subject to FOIA
If you work for a government agency, your taco emoji are federal records.
Ideas
So, You’re Starting Up a Tech Pilot Project? Follow These 5 Steps.
Keep it cheap and think simple.
Digital Government
An Unprecedented Threat to Privacy
A private company has captured 2.2 billion photos of license plates in cities throughout America. It stores them in a database, tagged with the location where they were taken. And it is selling that data.
Emerging Tech
These 4-D-Printed, Shape-Shifting Flowers Might One Day Save Your Life
A step beyond 3-D printing.
Cybersecurity
DHS adds traffic tool to intrusion-prevention program
The Netflow Analysis tool will help identify malicious traffic on private networks, said Andy Ozment, DHS' assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications.
Cybersecurity
CBP encouraged by facial comparison pilots
Customs and Border Protection officials are seeing success in facial comparison pilot projects and are mulling a long-term investment strategy for the program, according to CBP's Michael Hardin.
Cybersecurity