Modernization

Intelligence Community seeks unified communications

The second phase of the Desktop Environment portion of the IC's Information Technology Enterprise strategy is soon to begin.

Cybersecurity

Why the ‘two-man rule’ is only the beginning

NSA’s new guard against insider threats is a good start but not nearly enough.

Cybersecurity

CIA docs find a home on Amazon

The cloud contract between the intelligence agency and the cloud-services giant is on hold for now, and yet...

Cybersecurity

Snowden pardon petition reaches critical mass

Enough people have signed a 'We the People' petition demanding a pardon for the NSA leaker to elicit a White House responds.

Cybersecurity

Feds probe contractor that vetted Snowden

While the inquiry is unrelated to Snowden's clearance, 'background investigations have real consequences,' McCaskill says.

Cybersecurity

What Snowden's thumb-drive stash of NSA secrets means for feds

No matter how much security technology an agency has, the human factor is hard to predict.

Cybersecurity

Inside the IBM/Amazon protest

GAO's ruling in the protest of the CIA cloud services contract sheds light on how the agency conducted the procurement.

Cybersecurity

You too can store data like the NSA

Technical director details how agency structures and protects its massive datasets.

Cybersecurity

NSA shows how big 'big data' can be

Experts say the massive scale of metadata that the NSA is collecting represents a daunting challenge in finding useful information within it.

Cybersecurity

Senate questions NSA head

Gen. Keith Alexander answers questions about information gathering, security clearance process.

Cybersecurity

Past surveillance programs could predict Prism's path

Remember Clipper Chip? Carnivore? The current debate over domestic monitoring isn't the first such controversy.

Digital Government

What the NSA can't do with your data (probably)

Data mining experts explain what predictive analytics on a massive scale would entail.

Cybersecurity

Nation split on NSA monitoring

A new poll reveals that a majority of Americans are ok with the NSA tracking telephone calls, but fewer approve of email monitoring.

Cybersecurity

Amazon CIA contract protested

GAO is set to rule soon on IBM's protest of Amazon's ground-breaking cloud services deal with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Cybersecurity

Searching the Web, NSA style

A FOIA request unearthed the intelligence agency's how-to guide for staff. A little dated and no classified web-search secrets, but still a helpful tip or two.

Cybersecurity

Intel cuts, cyberattacks 'insidious' national security threats

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warns that reduced spending brings real risk.

Modernization

Contract signals shift in intelligence agencies' cloud and big data plans

A DISA contract, more public than a recent CIA deal, reveals some of what the intell community has in mind for cloud services.