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More feds may telework, House says
Teleworkers of the world rejoice! House lawmakers have passed a bill to expand the number of federal employees eligible to telework.
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Training security personnel remains a challenge
Agencies are required under FISMA to provide training for IT security personnel, and the need to husband limited resources puts a high priority on matching appropriate levels of training with personnel. NIST offers some suggestions on meeting the challenge.
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Can BlackBerry's rumored tablet unseat iPad?
The rumor mill is working overtime with stories of a Flash-friendly BlackBerry tablet from Research in Motion
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Is your smart phone infected with malware?
An informal survey suggests that 18 percent of smart phones may be infected with viruses and spyware. Is yours? How would you know?
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Need to crack someone else's password?
Tool lets investigators harness the power of distributed computing to search for and crack passwords and crypto keys.
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Will digital certificates replace passwords?
Passwords have long been the standard for identity authentication. But there are limits to memory and scalability with every technique for generating and managing them, and eventually convenience and security clash. Is it time to move to digital certificates?
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Agencies trying to wring more value from virtualization
Despite challenges, agencies hope to fully adopt client, server and storage virtualization by 2015.
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How to improve the performance of the federal workforce
Civilian agencies need to take a cue from the Defense Department and begin focusing their employees on mission, not process, according to one reader.
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Navy tightens cybersecurity training rules
The Navy secretary has issued a directive requiring the Navy and Marine Corps to ensure that their cybersecurity workforce complies with information assurance requirements.
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House tightens reins around improper payments
House passes legislation requiring agency officials to review their programs every three years to find those that are susceptible to making improper payments, and levies penalties against agencies that fail to comply with accounting regulations.
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Health and Human Services' IT rules open up market to newcomers
Older products long ago opted to comply with stricter standards, giving later entrants that can focus on simpler requirements the advantage, consultants say.
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Defense mandates disclosure of contract bundling
Department also will alert lawmakers to large sole-source task or delivery orders.
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