Digital Government
Agencies Saved Billions by Cutting Low-Priority IT Projects. But What Did They Do With the Savings?
Many agencies aren’t properly tracking how they’re using the cost savings to fund innovative new projects.
Cybersecurity
Watchdog: DHS Still Struggles with Cyber Response
The agency still struggles to coordinate its cyber-response activities and lacks an automated information-sharing tool to share cyber threat data.
Cybersecurity
Intelligence Chief: OPM Hack Was Not a ‘Cyberattack’
The intrusion of OPM networks did not involve the destruction or manipulation of data.
Cybersecurity
Plan for Responding to Barrage of Agency Hacks Coming this Fall, Federal CIO Says
The new recommendations will build on the 30-day “cybersecurity sprint” mandated by the White House this summer.
Cybersecurity
Government Will Actually Spend $330 Million to Protect Victims of the OPM Hack
The initial $133 million contract award covers only one year of ID protection services.
Digital Government
Federal Agencies Vie for Spot at South by Southwest Tech Conference
Ideas have been submitted by two intelligence agencies and smart-car experts from the Transportation Department.
Digital Government
OMB, Treasury Hammer Out Final DATA Act Standards
The new data standards aim to make it easier for the public and good-government groups to track federal dollars.
Digital Government
Why Federal CIO Tony Scott Hates the End-of-Year IT Spending Spree
"That's just a really bad way to run IT,” says one of the Obama administration's top techies.
Cybersecurity
Federal CIO: Cybersecurity Policies Lacked ‘Urgency’ Before OPM Hack
But it wasn't because there was a shortage of guidance, strategies and memos issued by the OMB.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Plans to Spend $132 Million on Credit Monitoring for DOD's OPM Hack Victims
The Office of Personnel Management is asking agencies to help share in the cost of offering identity-theft protection to hacked feds.
Digital Government
Bill Would Require Agencies to Keep Track of ‘Critical’ Cyber Workforce Shortages
The Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act would require agencies to use a cyber-jobs framework developed by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education.
Cybersecurity
House Oversight Chief Probes OPM Hack Timeline
Rep. Jason Chaffetz is zeroing in on a March 2014 cyberintrusion at the agency, during which hackers made off with what amounted to a blueprint of OPM’s IT systems.
Cybersecurity
4 Charts That Explain the State of Agency Cybersecurity after the OPM Hack
Most agencies made great strides during the White House-mandated 30-day cybersecurity sprint. But some actually backslid on their use of stronger authentication measures.
Digital Government
Will Digital Service Funding Survive Congressional Penny Pinching?
The Senate appropriations committee last week approved an annual spending measure that would grant USDS just one-third of the new funding President Barack Obama requested to scale up the team.
Cybersecurity
OPM Says Background Check System Now Back Online after Security Tweaks
The system outage came weeks after OPM first announced personal information on millions of current and former federal employees had been stolen by hackers.
Cybersecurity
OPM Cyber Spending to Get a Budget Boost -- But Is It Enough?
Senators approved the administration’s full request but blocked a stronger measure to accelerate OPM’s cyber upgrades.
Cybersecurity
Is Post-Breach Credit Monitoring Useful? Lawmakers Ask GAO to Review
The use of such services has become routine as the number of data breaches in both government and the private sector has ratcheted up.
Digital Government
Why It Still Sucks to Be a CIO in Government and What a New Law Can Do About It
While CIOs claim the “chief” title, in many cases their hands have been tied by sprawling bureaucratic structures and a lack of institutional heft.
Cybersecurity
Here’s Everything the White House Says It’s Done on Cyber in 2015
The administration’s 30-day cybersecurity sprint officially wrapped up Sunday.
Digital Government
Can Silicon Valley Save Federal IT?
An agile, open sensibility has overtaken Washington. But can it budge the behemoth federal bureaucracy?
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