Cybersecurity

Americans' Worries About Internet Privacy Go Beyond NSA Surveillance

The average citizen has other fish to fry when it comes to living on the Web.

Modernization

Google Is Waging War on Apps That Attack, Infiltrate and Steal From Your Phone

Android’s open platform means its must police its app store very carefully.

Modernization

More than one path for FedRAMP

Questions persist about agency-granted authorities to operate.

Cybersecurity

Your Heartbeat: The Ultimate in Password Protection?

The makers of a new device hope to replace Fluffy123 with the unique rhythm of your heart.

Modernization

The Triumph of the Tablet

The summer of 2013 has been, in many ways, the summer of the iPad.

Modernization

Can a foreign firm safeguard American privacy?

A Canadian firm has been hired to design a credentialing system for federal agencies, causing at least one reader to raise a question.

Emerging Tech

The Wireless Network With a Mile Range That the 'Internet of Things' Could Be Built on

Flutter, a Wi-Fi alternative, offers a glimpse into the future -- or something close to it.

Emerging Tech

What Do HHS Employees Really Think? Agency Will Pay Data Miners to Find Out

HHS wants a contractor to monitor internal social network to glean employee sentiments.

Modernization

Analysis: Go Ahead, Mess With Texas Instruments

Why educational technologies should be more like graphing calculators and less like iPads. An Object Lesson.

Digital Government

Will Social Media Get Obama Off the Hook on Syria?

U.S. intel report relies heavily on messages from the public and on videos to overcome America's credibility problem.

Modernization

Learning to Live with Terrible New Twitter: A Two Step Program

If users want to continue tweeting, they're going to have to learn to live with the service's new features.

Digital Government

The NSA Pays Some American Companies for Network Access

Companies who provide the agency access to their communications networks are often paid for their trouble.

Modernization

9th vendor gets FedRAMP approval

Certification affirms company's cloud offerings meet security standards for federal agencies.

Modernization

As ID management pilot takes shape, early agencies hop aboard

Just days after the USPS awarded a contract for a cloud-based identity management pilot program several other agencies have joined it.

Modernization

Amazon's other secret cloud win

AWS is not one of the prime contractors an an Interior Department project, but will partner with half of the 10 awardees.

Modernization

Company Says State Dept. Bought Inferior Radios for Embassy Emergency Networks

Relm Wireless blasts the department, saying it was predisposed to award the contract to Kenwood of Japan

Digital Government

Everything That’s Wrong With Microsoft, as Told by Veterans Who Abandoned the Company

It’s possible, even likely, that Microsoft is about to enter the darkest period in the firm’s history.

Modernization

JIE's murky progress raising questions

Complex systems, unclear timelines compound challenges for Pentagon's shared operational network.

Cybersecurity

Contractors Are Now Using Encrypted Calls and Texts for Legal Advice

To protect information, intellectual property lawyers are encouraging secure attorney-client correspondence.