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Cybersecurity
Editor's note: Improving FISMA
To complement the Federal Information Security Management Act, some agencies are adopting a strategy that depends, in part, on a package of 20 security practices, named the Consensus Audit Guidelines.
Digital Government
6 Big Questions for the Future of Gov 2.0
This special issue of Federal Computer Week is devoted entirely to the comments and insights of our readers.
Digital Government
Your turn: Take the FCW challenge
All of the magazine’s editorial pages that week will be devoted to contributions from readers like you.
Digital Government
1. Social Media
It's your turn to tell us what's really going on! In the FCW Challenge, we're going to devote an entire issue of Federal Computer Week magazine to the "Six Big Questions for the Future of Gov. 2.0." Up for debate here: government social networks.
People
2. Open Government Plans
It's your turn to tell us what's really going on! In the FCW Challenge, we're going to devote an entire issue of Federal Computer Week magazine to the "Six Big Questions for the Future of Gov. 2.0." Up for debate here: open government plans.
People
3. Acquisition 2.0
It's your turn to tell us what's really going on! In the FCW Challenge, we're going to devote an entire issue of Federal Computer Week magazine to the "Six Big Questions for the Future of Gov. 2.0." Up for debate here: acquisition 2.0.
Digital Government
4. The IT Agenda
It's your turn to tell us what's really going on! In the FCW Challenge, we're going to devote an entire issue of Federal Computer Week magazine to the "Six Big Questions for the Future of Gov. 2.0." Up for debate here: cloud computing.
Digital Government
5. Workplace
It's your turn to tell us what's really going on! In the FCW Challenge, we're going to devote an entire issue of Federal Computer Week magazine to the "Six Big Questions for the Future of Gov. 2.0." Up for debate here: telework and the federal workplace.
Digital Government
6. Cybersecurity
Up for debate: The government should launch a new PR campaign to raise cybersecurity awareness and protect itself, its citizens and the economy. Tell us what you think.
Featured eBooks
Digital Government
A millennial coming of age
The men and women chosen for this year’s Federal 100 awards form the vanguard of nearly every critical government sector and public service mission.
Cybersecurity
Uncle Cyber Sam wants you
The cyber spooks and watchdogs in the Obama administration are coming out of the shadows, making a full-court press to engage industry and the public in their crusade against cyber war.
Digital Government
Training year
The education of a technology editor can take many forms. One of them is meeting the right people, as I’ve been fortunate enough to do during the past year — my first as both editor and employee of this storied news organization.
Cybersecurity
CISOs take center-stage
The nature of IT security matters — brought to high alert by episodic breaches and ongoing cyber threats — has raised the stakes and profiles of the government chief information security officer.
People
Work to rule
In the physics of the workplace, every management action there will be, by definition, an equal and opposite reaction on the part of employees. So what are we to make of the demise of the National Security Personnel System?
Acquisition
Social contract
The world of federal procurement and acquisition policy is about as insular as it gets in nonclassified government.
Cybersecurity
Finding common cause
The global terrorist threat, brought to U.S. soil on 9/11, has not gone away. And it now includes the ever looming war in cyberspace.
Digital Government
Women taking charge
One of the first things that struck me when I arrived here and began meeting people in the technology shops that FCW covers was the number of women in positions of prominence and power.
