People
Top NIST workers to receive modest bonuses
Changes to personnel management system removes minimum bonus requirement.
Cybersecurity
Lynn McNulty: The grandfather of federal cybersecurity
Lynn McNulty emphasized security not as a constraint but as an e-government enabler.
Modernization
NIST guide aims to explain cloud in plain language
New document details risk management and other security issues related to cloud computing.
Cybersecurity
10 ways to secure the IT supply chain
NIST's streamlined guidance on risk management focuses on a set of key recommendations for ensuring the security and reliability of information and communications systems.
Cybersecurity
NIST tests accuracy in iris recognition for identification
Report quantifies accuracy, speed in iris-recognition algorithms.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity reboot: Two game-changing ideas
Some say making IT systems a moving target to hackers and centralizing cybersecurity policy will turn around current flawed approaches.
Modernization
Cloud computing's next step
Agencies and vendors need common definitions, performance metrics and security controls, say panelists at the FOSE 2012 conference.
People
NRC cybersecurity exec steps down
Pat Howard, the chief information security officer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is retiring from government in April.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity becomes high priority in budget request
With large investments proposed for DOD, DHS and NSF, budget puts cybersecurity front and center.
Modernization
NIST sets security approach for cloud computing
New guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology offer recommendations agencies should consider when outsourcing data, applications and infrastructure to a public cloud environment.
Modernization
DOD to allow Android on classified networks
Forthcoming security standards are expected to allow the use of certain mobile devices on DOD's secure networks.
Digital Government
Obama reorganization could affect at least 12 agencies
White House consolidation plan is more expansive than the six agencies first identified.
Digital Government
NIST seeks data searchers
NIST seeks participants for annual data-mining conference.
Digital Government
NIST security expert elected AAAS fellow
The world's largest general scientific society will honor a member of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory.
Digital Government
DOD looks to unconventional methods in fight against IEDs
The U.S. military's counter-IED agency is focusing on intelligence and robotics in the continuing fight against a critical threat to soldiers' lives.
Cybersecurity
Proposal: A career path for federal cybersecurity pros
The National Initiative on Cybersecurity Education has drafted a framework to help professionalize this area of work and provide a path for federal career development.
Modernization
Cloud-computing help is on the way for agency managers
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's road map is designed to support secure adoption of cloud computing by federal agencies. Comments are due by Dec. 2.
Modernization
FedRAMP to become mandatory, fed CIO says
NIST guidelines, FedRAMP and monitoring contribute to cloud security
Cybersecurity
NIST proposes privacy safeguards for federal IT
The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants to ensure the privacy of personal information is among the standard security controls used to protect federal information and information systems.
Modernization
Cloud security may be the easiest problem to solve
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program requirements for authorizing the use of cloud services are expected soon, but security might be the simplest issue to solve in the federal adoption of cloud computing.
Almost There!
Help us tailor content specifically for you: