Cybersecurity
Full dollar cost of OPM breach still a giant unknown
When you add up credit monitoring costs and cybersecurity spending, fallout from the OPM breach could potentially rocket past $1 billion. How much will be well spent? And what unknown costs are lurking?
Acquisition
Clearing a federal path for small IT firms
GSA is reviewing the two-year minimum corporate experience requirement for its Schedule 70 IT GWAC.
People
Congratulations to the 2015 Rising Stars
FCW recognizes 14 individuals having an outsized impact early in their careers.
Modernization
IRS reveals potential scope of cloud play
Judging by responses to vendor questions about an RFI, the IRS is thinking big about cloud-based customer service tools.
Cybersecurity
DHS: Here’s Why Agencies Should Not Try to Boot Hackers by Themselves
The OPM hack as a teachable moment.
Modernization
Absolutely Everything You Need to Know About Today’s Apple Event
Apple definitely had a lot to share, detailing updates to its watches, phones, tablets and set-top box.
Cybersecurity
Demystifying cyber intel, Marines get real, ITI signs Palo Alto and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Experts: Stop Calling Everything Cyberwar
Flubbing cyber terminology could have real-world consequences.
Emerging Tech
The Internet of Things Might Force You To Restructure Your Team
Organizations taking several months to make decisions are "not thinking about the future."
Modernization
Cable trouble undercuts FCC's huge cloud move
Hardware problems have kept the agency from finishing its long-planned move to the commercial cloud on schedule.
Digital Government
2015 Bold Awards Recognize Government Innovators
From more than 1,000 nominees, Nextgov’s editorial team selected 10 winners who took strategic risks to boost their agency’s technological prowess.
Cybersecurity
NCSC launches phishing awareness campaign
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center is the latest federal agency to target the threat of malicious emails.
Modernization
Lesson From the Ashley Madison Hack: Cloud Makes Everyone Vulnerable
Most of us get to be thoroughly relieved that our emails weren't in the Ashley Madison database. But don’t get too comfortable.
Digital Government
How Safe is the US Electrical Grid?
The grid is threatened by massive solar storms, terrorists and climate change. What happens when the lights go out?
Emerging Tech
Even if Smart Cars Take Off, The Transition Will Be Bumpy
Why Google's car is easily checkmated.
Cybersecurity
'Aggressively non-regulatory' NIST offers a cyber helping hand
The director of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory says it can help develop innovative technologies that both industry and agencies can use.
People
Soloway leaving PSC
After 15 years leading the Professional Services Council, Stan Soloway is making time for another act in his career.
Cybersecurity
The password paradox
Federal security pros fear that rank-and-file feds, drowning in passwords, will threaten organizational security by finding workarounds. Is there a better way than login/password combos?
Cybersecurity
NSA Stepped In to Thwart OPM Hackers -- Eventually
It wasn't until after the intrusion NSA was able to provide OPM with help to try to figure out what had happened, NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers said.
Digital Government