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GAO: Los Alamos Lab has cybersecurity gaps

The Los Alamos National Laboratory has weaknesses that affect how it protects information on its network, the Government Accountability Office reports.

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Web research turns new page

Group readies protocol to improve sharing of Web-based research information.

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Get ready to show your EA work

In future assessments, OMB will ask agencies to tie enterprise architecture to performance improvements.

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Pointers: Recommended reading

Innovative IT governance; Misinformation and the Web; 20 IT mistakes to avoid; A lesson in password security.

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Health IT for federal employees

By the numbers: How health plans are using personal health records.

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The benefits of personal health records

Online personal health record applications, available through a growing number of federal employee health plans, have a variety of forms.

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OPM puts weight behind e-health

Agency uses its buying power to push private health plans that serve the government workforce.

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2 more tips for Web 2.0 security

Here are more security considerations that apply when using Web 2.0 applications.

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What's wrong with a little networking?

The federal government doesn't have a clear social-networking policy.

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Play it safe on the interactive Web

Testing new features, sanitizing XML and securing development can help reduce risks from Web 2.0.

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Paller: FISMA 2008: A better solution

New FISMA proposals target deficiencies.

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Editorial: Security, not secrecy

The Bush administration's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative tapped the expertise of an elite group, but however bright its members might be, they cannot match the collective wisdom of the security industry.

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Going through the motions

The Multiple Award Schedule Advisory Panel made several recommendations about fixing the General Services Administration's schedules program during its Sept. 19 and 22 meetings.

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Panel: Rethink services pricing

Critics: Nature of professional services makes it difficult to apply GSA’s price reduction clause.

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DISA plans events to attract employees

The agency needs employees with IT, telecommunications backgrounds, officials say.

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Update: Senate to consider bill with billions for IT

The funding measure would allow most of the government to run at fiscal 2008 levels until March and provide fiscal 2009 budgets for DHS, DOD and the VA.

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Letter: Technology can create other problems

A reader writes that technology can help solve problems and create others.

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OMB to verify agency work on security settings

The Policy Utilization Assessment program will determine how well agencies have implemented the Federal Desktop Core Configuration, an OMB official said today.

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FBI CIO Azmi will retire in October

Zalmai Azmi, the FBI's chief information officer since 2004, announced today that he will retire from the government Oct. 17. His successor has not been selected.

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GAO: DHS needs data on acquisition authority

The Homeland Security Department’s special acquisition authority appears to be working, but better data would help it assess that success, the Government Accountability Office says.