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GSA preps next award-term pact
The General Services Administration has stepped into uncharted procurement territory by planning to issue the first multipleaward contract using a relatively new form of incentive contracting. GSA is considering awardterm contracting as a way to enforce performance much the way award or incentiv
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Air Force lab to build intrusion-detection system
The Rome Air Force Research Laboratory last month tapped Litton/PRC Inc. to build a system that will collect information on cyberattacks or other unauthorized users throughout the Air Force as part of a Defense Departmentwide effort to stem the increasing number of intrusions into DOD computer systems.
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Justice nabs hacker of Army computers
The Justice Department on Monday announced it had arrested the teenage founder of a hacker group that allegedly broke into and modified an Army World Wide Web site in June.
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Feds to push security from talk to action
A program started at an agency as a way to collect and teach information security best practices will be spread across the federal government with the backing of the CIO Council and the General Services Administration. The U.S. Agency for International Development's Model Information Systems Securi
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Check Point secures net from within
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. this week announced its new virtual private network architecture, which will provide highavailability security not only from network to network but also within an agency. The company's new Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture is a longterm strategy to b
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OMB: Agencies making strides in financial functions
While federal agencies are expected to perform better than ever in their financial reporting to Congress, key areas of improvement include wider use of commercial financial management systems and modernizing financial practices with electronic commerce, according to a report issued publicly Wednesday by the Office of Management and Budget.
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FTS releasing solicitation for distance-learning services
Kicking off the second of its three new business lines, the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service (FTS) today will release the solicitation for a new governmentwide contract to provide broadband distancelearning services.
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Ringing up sales
Industry vendors are gearing up for the summer buying season with a host of special offers designed to capitalize on increased interest in network servers as well as the traditional heavy traffic on desktop computer contracts. Federal agencies are in the market for beefedup servers and networking
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Van Dyke, Wang finding common bonds
Although it would have been easy to get lost in the vast enterprise that is Wang Global, the merger of security firm J.G. Van Dyke ?#038; Amp; Associates Inc. and Wang Government Services so far has been a case of a complementary meeting of minds. While Wang mainly has been focused on delivering highassuran
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New tool turns attention to telecom security risks
SecureLogix Corp. this month announced the release of a product that is designed to assess the security of telecommunications networks. TeleSweep Secure, the company's first product, scans telecom networks for unsecured modem, fax and phone lines that could provide hackers with a backdoor into an a
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GAO report tries to sort out risk-assessment confusion
Facing growing security threats to increasingly complex government computer systems, the General Accounting Office last week released a report to help federal agencies determine how vulnerable their systems are and how to make them more secure. Although GAO's report, 'Information Security Risk Asse
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GAO drafts financial management guide
The use of businessoriented financial management systems is a key element in agencies' efforts to comply with federal management and performance laws, according to the General Accounting Office. In a study of nine private and publicsector finance organizations, GAO found that the use of technolo
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ISS enhances risk-assessment tools
Internet Security Systems Inc. this week announced new versions of its vulnerability and riskassessment tools and took the first step toward integrating the management of all three products. The new versions of ISS' products Internet Scanner 6.0, Database Scanner 3.0 and System Scanner 4.0 p
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SEC accelerating file backup process
Within the next month, the Securities and Exchange Commission will make a major change in its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system, and if all goes well, no one will notice a thing. Working with Bell Atlantic Federal, the SEC is updating the way it backs up all the infor
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NIST names finalists in AES development
The National Institute of Standards and Technology today named the five finalists in its development of the nextgeneration Advanced Encryption Standard.
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Merisel steps up service to fed resellers
Merisel Inc., which manages product supplies for a number of federal resellers, last week announced it had upgraded internal management systems to enable those companies to provide federal customers with more accurate pricing information. Earlier this year Merisel migrated to SAP America Inc.'s R/3
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Officials: Security plan on track
Despite public outcry and congressional interest, federal officials are sticking to their schedule for developing and releasing a plan to protect the federal information infrastructure from cyberattacks.
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Clinton forms security panel
President Clinton last month signed an executive order to create the National Infrastructure Assurance Council, the final organization to be established as part of an overall structure to protect the critical infrastructure of the United States against cyberterrorism and other attacks. The council
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Agency sees reward of management labor
Outsourcing management of the desktop computing environment is proving to have a direct impact on the way the agency uses information technology to support its work force, according to officials at one agency. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of the Inspector General last mo
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Feds say Y2K experience aids in cyberdefense
The Senate last week took its first close look at how the expertise and systems being developed to deal with the Year 2000 problem can be used now and in the future against intentional attacks on the nation's infrastructure. Testifying before the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology
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