Cybersecurity
Coviello: Embrace authentication
E-authentication must become commonplace before public agencies and companies will open up their networks for business transactions, said the CEO of RSA Security.
Digital Government
Microsoft gives away antispyware
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says the new antispyware capabilities would be in the company's Internet Explorer 7.0 browser.
Modernization
BlackBerry maker gets NIST nod
It's the 500th cryptographic module certification issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Modernization
SSA has plans for fiscal 2006 funds
Agency plans to phase in an IP telephony system as well as implement some systems.
People
Budget calls for Student Aid upgrade
Otherwise, the Education Department's IT budget request is flat.
Digital Government
Patent office sticks to automation
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officials plan to stay focused on automating the agency's patent systems in fiscal 2006 if lawmakers approve President Bush's $308 million budget request for USPTO's chief information officer.
Modernization
Postal Service freeing envelope space
New software will support single bar code standard for intelligent mail
Cybersecurity
Measuring trust
Federal officials want a quick and standard way of determining the degree to which electronic identity credentials can be trusted.
Cybersecurity
Hashing out encryption
The National Institute of Standards and Technology plan to phase out SHA-1.
Cybersecurity
ITAA favors current smart card specs
The Information Technology Association of America wants feds to build upon smart card standards already in use in the Defense Department and other large agencies.
People
USPS execs fret over IT
The Postal Service's IT priorities include improving IT systems and network security, complying with Section 508 and hiring younger employees, Robert Otto says.
People
Davis tries license bill again
Rep. Tom Davis reintroduced a proposal to require federal standards for ID verification on driver's licenses.
Modernization
GSA certifies SiteMinder for E-Authentication
The addition of CA's SiteMinder to the approved providers list will give federal agencies a choice among 10 companies' identity management software when they offer e-government services.
Cybersecurity
Critics wary about biometric smart cards
Opponents worry about job loss and invasions of privacy
Cybersecurity
Clashing over cards
Questions arose about a directive that would force all feds and contractors in federal buildings to carry biometric cards.
Digital Government
Tracking Postal trucks
U.S. Postal Service officials have awarded a three-year contract to I.D. Systems to provide wireless location-tracking of USPS' vehicle fleet.
People
SSA mainframes to feel drug load
Medicare's prescription drug program will increase the workload on computers at the Social Security Administration in a few months, officials say.
People
Patents boss to step down
Nicholas Godici will retire when his term as commissioner of patents ends in March.
People
Keeping it private at DHS
Privacy advocates say the incoming secretary at DHS must form a good relationship with the agency's chief privacy officer.
People
Enough with convention already
A look at seven individuals for whom the unconventional is second nature
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