Cybersecurity
$37 million in emergency OPM funding left out of CISA
The Senate's information-sharing cybersecurity bill cleared a procedural hurdle Oct. 22, but conspicuously absent from the bill was an amendment for $37 million in funding for the Office of Personnel Management's IT modernization efforts.
Digital Government
Could proposed legislation make cars MORE susceptible to hackers?
A bill intended to protect vehicles against cyberattacks could have the exact opposite effect, FTC and NHTSA officials warn legislators.
Cybersecurity
After USPS Phishing Hack, Audit Shows Postal Workers Still Click on Links
Aquarter of agency employees fell for a simulated email scheme, according to an internal watchdog.
Ideas
4 Steps to Boost Records Management Practices
Federal employees and managers aren't confident about what actually constitutes a record.
Cybersecurity
Whistleblower worries, FEMA's personnel data and DARPA's cyber competition
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
Kinder, gentler... sort of
FCW's cartoonist comments on Congress' new IT overseers.
Cybersecurity
IC falling behind on plans for continuous evaluation of cleared personnel
The exact size of the security clearance re-check backlog is closely held by the government, but it could affect more than 1.1 million individuals.
People
GAO: Q&A with Gene Dodaro
Richard Cohen recently sat down with Gene Dodaro to discuss his experiences in working with the GAO.
Modernization
IGs seek better access to federal clouds
The breakdown of the VA's cloud email deal last year highlights the question of how to maintain oversight of cloud-based computer systems.
People
Fixating on failure
Failing fast is the best way to get better -- in agile development and in life.
Digital Government
Amazon takes up HealthCare.gov role
Adding AWS as a subcontractor is one piece of the plan to overhaul HealthCare.gov before the next open enrollment period.
Digital Government
One DHS remains a work in progress
The multiple components at the department have an existing architecture of databases "not conducive to effective implementation," report finds.
Acquisition
10 reports worth a second look
Among the most interesting Critical Read pieces FCW published in 2013 were ones covering the security clearance process, performance management and FISMA.
People
Navy Yard answers remain elusive after shutdown
Report on police response to Sept. 16 shooting was due Oct. 21, but the government shutdown has slowed the investigation.
Digital Government
Hacker pleads guilty, targeted DOE
A hacker has pleaded guilty to charges he had hacked into supercomputers owned by the Department of Energy and planned to sell access to them for tens of thousands of dollars.
People
Former GAO head seeks congressional OK for cost-cutting commission
David Walker, the leader of the Government Transformation Initiative, envisions a bipartisan commission to trim government waste and duplication.
Cybersecurity
Is an emphasis on compliance hampering IT security?
Top-level agency leaders are often unaware of the risks their agencies face -- and content to remain that way, argues NARA's CISO.
Digital Government
A road map for oversight to come
House details committees' planned reviews and investigations of the executive branch this Congress.
Digital Government
OMB reasserts its gatekeeper role between agencies and Congress
Memo stresses need for feds to clear all testimony and other legislative communications before heading to the Hill.
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