Emerging Tech
DHS Wants Industry Input on How First Responders Should Wear Their Tech
Wearables are great—but they can't get in the way when firefighters and paramedics do their jobs.
Digital Government
Congress Mulls a CIO's Authority, Future of Homeland Security and Data Breaches
And one caucus is concerned about climate change data vanishing form federal websites.
Emerging Tech
DHS To Put First Responder Tech to the Test
Can commercial tech hold up in a mock disaster? The agency’s Science and Technology Directorate wants to find out.
Digital Government
IG Begins Full Audit After FEMA CIO Allegedly Misleads Investigators
The Federal Emergency Management Agency isn’t fixing its outstanding IT management issues and the acting inspector general says he plans to find out why.
Cybersecurity
Senate DHS Reauthorization Bill Likely to Streamline Oversight, Include Election Security
Senators also aim to limit partisan amendments to the bill that would reauthorize DHS for the first time in 15 years.
Cybersecurity
Coast Guard Needs Fresh IT, People to Keep Networks Secure
The service’s head of Cyber Command outlines his strategy for updating old systems and getting personnel to rethink cybersecurity.
Emerging Tech
Here’s How to Counter Fake News During a Disaster
A Homeland Security Department advisory group wants to help emergency responders control the social media conversation.
Cybersecurity
Secretaries of State Find Federal Election Cyber Intelligence Elusive
With the upcoming midterm elections, it's a race to establish better information sharing between Homeland Security and state and local elections officials.
Cybersecurity
Just Over Half of Agencies Met a Web Encryption Security Deadline
Fifty-four percent of federal websites met the deadline for HTTPS encryption and other security upgrades.
Emerging Tech
U.S. Customs Wants to Use Your Face As a Boarding Pass
By 2022, the agency plans to use biometrics to identify 97 percent of travelers flying out of the country.
Emerging Tech
DHS Announces Finalists in Biothreat-Spotting Contest
A department contest advanced five early warning systems designed to detect biological attacks.
Cybersecurity
DHS to Scrutinize Government Supply Chain for Cyber Risks
The department wants to integrate cyber vetting into existing supply chain checks.
Cybersecurity
Industry Weighs in on How the Government Can Fight Botnets
Feds need to secure the internet of things and work more closely with private companies, they said.
Cybersecurity
Agencies Still Lag on Email Security One Month Past Deadline
Many agencies that have added the protection to their email domains haven’t configured it properly.
Digital Government
Trump Budget Gouges Non-Defense R&D by 19 Percent
Meanwhile, Pentagon researchers will get an extra $13.5 billion to play with.
Cybersecurity
Trump 2019 Budget Boosts Cyber Spending But Cuts Research
The budget also moves DHS cyber research out of the science and tech division.
Cybersecurity
Microsoft Vet to Lead DHS Cyber and Infrastructure Division
Christopher Krebs has been acting chief of the cyber and infrastructure protection division since August.
Policy
Senate Homeland Leader Proposes Panel to Fix DHS Oversight
The panel, which is tied to reauthorizing the department, would pare back overlapping committee jurisdictions.
Digital Government
DHS Needs More Cybersecurity Workers—It Just Doesn’t Know Where Or What Kind
The government’s primary cybersecurity agency is missing congressional deadlines to identify and categorize its cyber workforce, a congressional watchdog said.
Cybersecurity
DHS, Kaspersky Resume Court Battle Over Government Ban
The department opposed a Kaspersky motion to overturn the governmentwide ban on its anti-virus.
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