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3 Tips to Ensure Smart Physical Security for Your Agency's Data Centers
Securing data centers from physical threats is essential to maintaining operations and protecting critical information.
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Tony Scott: Federal Government Needs to Move to a Customer-Centric IT Model
Speaking at the FedTalks 2016 conference, the federal CIO said that agencies should focus on adopting shared IT services and improving the quality of cybersecurity defenses.
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Feds Want to Move Further Into the Cloud, but Face Security Concerns
Fully 85 percent of federal cloud adopters say their agency will increase spending on cloud computing in 2017, according to a MeriTalk survey.
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NSA, DHS and DOJ Highlight Security Threats Posed by IoT
Federal agencies are sounding the alarm over the need to secure thousands — soon to be millions — of connected devices inside the government.
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ELC 2016: Artificial Intelligence Can Help Analyze Security Threat Data
Cognitive computing technologies could help agencies make better sense of cybersecurity information, panelists said at the ACT-IAC Executive Leadership Conference.
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How Fannie Mae Used DevOps to Improve Its IT Operations
The lender has embraced DevOps as a way to speed up the delivery of IT environments, aid developers and cut costs.
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Presidential Transition Helps Lay the Foundation for New Era of Tech Policy
The General Services Administration is helping the campaigns get ready to start working and putting new tech plans in place after the election.
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FedRAMP Scores a Cloud Victory, as Microsoft Gets a Speedy Approval
The GSA’s FedRAMP Accelerated program approved the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online program for federal use in 15 weeks, six times faster than its previous authorization.
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DOD Still Devising Secure Back-End IT for New Background Check Bureau
The National Background Investigations Bureau's new, secure IT architecture should be in place in the next 12-18 months, according to DOD CIO Terry Halvorsen.
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How Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing Is Benefiting from the Cloud
At the BEP, mission-specific applications are being moved to the cloud following successful migrations of other apps.
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NSA and OPM Turn to Behavioral Analytics to Combat Insider Threats
Agencies see data analytics of log files and user behavior as a way to guard against internal security breaches.
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How the Commerce Department Sees Cybersecurity Differently
Commerce CISO Rod Turk says that segmentation of the agency’s architecture and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation are keeping it alert in a world of cyberthreats.
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DOD, Service Branches Say Cloud Migrations Will Depend on Missions, Interoperability
IT leaders at the nation’s service branches also argued that Software as a Service offerings give agencies the biggest return on investment.
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Education Department Prepares for the Mobile Workforce of the Future
As it seeks to refresh a major IT contract, the department wants to ensure that it can supply technology to a workforce that will be increasingly on the go.
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GSA Wants to Be One-Stop IT Modernization Shop, No Matter What Congress Does
The General Services Administration wants to lead the push to help agencies upgrade their legacy IT systems, regardless of whether Congress passes new laws to spur modernization.
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The Future of Federal Cybersecurity Is in Predictive Security Intelligence
The Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program is one tool agencies are using to get ahead of threats.
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DOD Aims to Make Cybersecurity a Fundamental Part of Its Tech Mission
In addition to measuring the effectiveness of cybersecurity measures on a running scorecard, the Pentagon is looking to build security into its acquisition process from the start.
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Software-Defined Data Centers Can Offer Agencies Savings, Flexibility
Federal agencies will likely turn more to SDDC in the years ahead, but must overcome several hurdles when implementing this new model.
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To Make Data Centers Greener and Leaner, Feds Need to Start Planning Now
The White House’s Data Center Optimization Initiative will push federal agencies to embrace virtualization, sensors and analytics, according to an industry executive.
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