via Federal News Radio The Office of Management and Budget gave agency chief information officers marching orders to implement software to continuously monitor the security of their networks by the end of fiscal 2012. This was just one of several governmentwide provisions in the administration’...
via Federal Computer Week At first blush, the cloud-first mandate that federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced late last year makes sense. By spurring agencies to send one application to the cloud in the next year and two more shortly after that, it offers a clear path for cutting IT costs and consolidat...
via FCW NASA Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton has chosen Valerie Burks to be the new Deputy CIO for IT Security at the agency, according to sources. Burks comes to NASA from the Department of Agriculture where she was the Associate CIO for Cyber and Privacy Policy and Oversight since 2009. Ac...
“The Obama administration has adopted new procedures for using the Defense Department’s vast array of cyberwarfare capabilities in case of an attack on vital computer networks inside the United States, delicately navigating historic rules that ......
A former CIO and deputy director of the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has urged CIOs to become more proactive in their approach to corporate security consciousness. ‘They’re just now getting their hands wrapped around this problem,’ Dr Prescott Winter, who spent 27 years with th...
A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a ‘blue screen of death’ prior to the explosion that sank the oil rig last April, the chief electronics technician aboard testified Friday at a federal hearing. ‘Blue screen of death,’ or BSOD, is a...