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.
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