Federal IT executives are increasingly expected to improve efficiency by leveraging new technologies, but legacy technology and processes often eat up the bulk of available resources. To that end, federal agencies are beginning to shift to contractor-owned, contractor-operated IT, shedding restrictions that…
The Cybersecurity Framework is a work in progress. It has been generally well received by industry, but the old bugaboo of cybersecurity sharing remains a challenge as NIST mulls the next steps.
On March 22, GOP voters in Utah will go to the polls to make their choice of presidential candidate, and for the first time in America, Internet voting is being deployed as an option in a presidential contest.
The Westport Independent is a newspaper simulator that has players as editors trying to battle government censorship, maintain reporter morale and just sell some papers in a fictional country undergoing great change circa 1949. Comparisons will be made to Papers Please of…
The United States is capable of wonderful innovation and spectacular achievements, from highway systems to fleets of satellites. But a lack of appetite for maintaining these accomplishments threatens our security and well-being.
The federal government has produced a body of standards and guidelines—including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework—that can help the private sector as well as government agencies improve information security.
Cybersecurity job openings are looking for people with a blend of technical, security, and industry-specific talents -- and it helps to know Python, Hadoop, MongoDB, and other big-data analysis tools, too.
Cybersecurity job postings grew by 91% between 2010 and 2014, faster than…
Antivirus company Avira reports a new wrinkle in malware: A phishing e-mail that contains explicit instructions for infecting your computer. It’s so crazy, it just might work.
According to Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, more than 317 million new pieces of malware -- computer viruses or other malicious software -- were created in 2014. That means nearly one million new threats were released each day.
Someone has to…
Agencies are getting more and better technology, but IT is not providing the productivity and return that it could. Federal customers need to partner with vendors to focus on mission and outcome for IT, not just functionality and affordability.
