Cybersecurity

Here’s What Is in the Senate’s Cybersecurity Bill

Despite amendments, privacy groups still fear the measure could expand NSA spying.

Ideas

Improving How Social Media Informs Leadership and Public Initiatives

How can all of us increase the benefits of using social media to improve public service and mitigate potential downsides?

Cybersecurity

Regulators seek more authority in data breach bill

FTC officials fear draft House legislation might be too narrow to fix the problem.

Cybersecurity

Congress looks for interagency coordination on drones

Lawmakers are considering putting DHS in charge of an interagency task force on drone security.

Cybersecurity

Revisiting the Navy’s blueprint for cyber operations

Operation Rolling Tide, which drove Iranian hackers from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, could have a lasting impact on the Pentagon's approach to cyber.

Digital Government

DHS looking for wider bio-data feed

The National Biosurveillance Integration Center wants a source that can aggregate a minimum of 50,000 online data sources every 12 hours.

Cybersecurity

Botnets and datasets

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

Digital Government

Rise of the Data Chiefs: Meet the Federal Officials Aiming to Usher in Government’s ‘Golden Age’ of Data

Nextgov sat down with five recently appointed agency chief data officers across government to discuss the mission of the agency CDO and whether there’s room in the federal organizational chart for yet another “chief.”

Digital Government

Timeline: Rise of the Chief Data Officer

Charting the evolution of the government's open data movement.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Niall Brennan, CMS

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Niall Brennan, chief data officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Dan Morgan, Transportation

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Dan Morgan, chief data officer for the Transportation Department.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Deputy CDO Lynn Overmann, Commerce

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Lynn Overmann, deputy chief data officer at the Commerce Department.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Brandon Pustejovsky, USAID

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Brandon Pustejovsky, chief data officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Cybersecurity

In Nod To Privacy, Feds Say Every Agency Website Will Be Encrypted

While the "HTTPS-Only Standard" makeover likely won’t happen overnight, privacy proponents cheered the effort.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Scott Shoup, FEMA

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Scott Shoup, chief data officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Cybersecurity

Medical Data Exposed As Another Blue Cross Insurer Succumbs to Hackers

Healthcare and Public Health // United States

Emerging Tech

Another Gender Equality Fail: Top Tech Execs Still Clueless About Women

Google chairman's gaffe seems more the tech industry standard than an isolated bout of ignorance.

Digital Government

UK, US Most Committed in G8 to Unleashing Data

A new ranking finds the United Kingdom most committed to a G8 Open Data Charter, with Canada and the United States tied for second place.

Emerging Tech

Can HP's 'Security-as-a-Service' Product Change How Agencies Secure Apps?

Government customers can use it to perform security assessments of new or existing application code, websites and end-to-end mobile app security testing through the cloud.

Cybersecurity

When Americans approve of government surveillance

A new survey finds broad support for certain types of electronic monitoring -- including keeping tabs on U.S. government leaders -- but the more people learn, the more their confidence in surveillance efforts wanes.