People

Student tracker proposed

The Education Department wants to create a federal database to track college students.

Modernization

Report: Cybersecurity regs would be tricky

Congressional Research Service says regulatory framework could build on Year 2000 model.

Modernization

Pentagon pursues compatible signatures

The DOD Digital Signature Interoperability Team wants to know how application vendors might adapt commercial digital signature standards for the military.

Cybersecurity

Make security a business issue

Chief information security officers who know only "geek speak" will be left behind, officials say.

Digital Government

Buetow: A force in the battle against cancer

Bioinformatics grid lets researchers, clinicians share data and tools.

People

Dempsey and Louie: On a tightrope

Pair sought common ground between security, privacy.

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Input: Security spending to rise

Report says to expect 27 percent more federal spending on IT security.

Cybersecurity

FISMA tightens criteria

Federal agencies will encounter tougher security grading standards next year.

Cybersecurity

Feds bring home a D+

Security is still a tough assignment.

People

Social Security sees tech future

SSA officials expect IT to help them handle a large wave of Baby Boomer retirements.

Digital Government

Wireless firms jump on Senate Wi-Fi

Commercial cellular carriers have activated service for the U.S. Senate across a secure wireless network.

Cybersecurity

Security through layers

Wireless networks are inherently insecure, but the more layers of security they have, the less likely they are to be attacked, Mischel Kwon said.

People

Screening metrics need work, GAO says

GAO evaluated measures the Transportation Security Administration has developed for determining whether commercial data can improve airline passenger prescreening.

People

Feds prepare security test

The federal government and several international partners will hold a cyber preparedness exercise in November.

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CoreStreet releases First Responder

The company says its application can use public networks to validate ID credentials for public-safety and health personnel.

Modernization

Titan sticks it to security

The company's ItinerX product provides a mobile information security system on a USB memory stick.

Modernization

From layers to assurance

The key to information security might be building better software to begin with instead of relying on outside layers, officials say.

Cybersecurity

Clarke: Who leads cybersecurity?

The former special adviser to the president on cybersecurity has this advice for the DHS secretary: Find out who's in charge of cybersecurity.

Digital Government

OMB sets ID schedule

Officials laid out a timetable for complying with an executive order to issue federal workers identity cards that conform to a new standard.

Cybersecurity

Clashing over cybersecurity

Industry leaders and critics argue about cybersecurity regulation.