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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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FedRAMP Certifies First Cloud-Based Unified Communications System
Now that Collab9’s system has been approved, federal agencies could soon have more choices as they migrate to cloud-based UC services.
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The Intelligence Community Moves Toward a More Secure, Integrated Cloud Environment
While the IC’s research organization looks into adding security to cloud environments, in the here and now, intelligence agencies are sharing more data.
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The Federal Government Can Use Analytics to Save Lives
Data analytics is often thought of as a wonky pursuit, but a former Department of Homeland Security official says that it can be used to improve public health in critical ways.
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What Does It Take to Move Your Agency to a DevOps Model? Being Bold.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the EPA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission are among the agencies pursuing a new approach to IT.
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How Does Working with Legacy IT Affect Feds’ Day-to-Day Jobs?
A Dell study found that 71 percent of federal IT decision makers say their agency runs important applications on old operating systems.
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SMS-Delivered Tokens May Go Away in Multifactor Authentication, but Agencies Have Numerous Other Options
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recommends agencies phase out the use of SMS-delivered passwords in two-factor authentication.
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FedRAMP Takes Concrete Step to Speed Up the Cloud Authorization Process
The GSA’s FedRAMP is promoting a pre-audit process for potential federal cloud service providers.
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Federal Agencies Will Be Required to More Accurately Track Software Licenses
The GSA’s FedRAMP is promoting a pre-audit process for potential federal cloud service providers.
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Will Chatbots and AI Replace Federal Customer Service Reps?
Advances in messaging and artificial intelligence technology could replace workers in federal call centers.
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CIA Sees Promise in Digital Directorate to Enhance Security
The CIA’s first new directorate in half a century is responsible for protecting the agency’s IT systems — and the country — from foreign cyberthreats.
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