By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. 60 Days of Hacker Assaults – The first 60 days of 2013 have been marked by some serious security breaches. Twitter, Apple and Facebook all were targeted, along with the State Department, Federal Reserve and US Department of En...
via nextgov The federal transition to cloud computing is an overlooked source of savings as the government battles over trillions of dollars in spending reductions, the leader of a Senate oversight subcommittee said this week. A visibly weary Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., was addressing a conference Wedn...
via All Things D Vivek Kundra is the Chief Information Officer of the United States of America. Not many people know that there is such a position-he is the first, appointed by President Obama in 2009-let alone what the position entails. But when you consider that the federal government collectively...
via Federal Computer Week The Office of Management and Budget has given agencies 90 days to develop or update policies on buying IT to enable and promote the federal government’s continued adoption of telework. OMB Director Jacob Lew issued a memo April 28 that directs agency CIOs to coordinat...
via eCommerce Times Retooling federal IT management won’t come easily or quickly, but agencies increasingly are including management capability criteria in their “requests for information” to vendors. With this aspect of contracting gaining more attention, vendors that can enhance ...
via SC Magazine A plan aimed at streamlining efficiencies in the federal government’s use of IT technologies is making its way toward a hearing on Capitol Hill on April 12. The “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management,” introduced last Decem...
via The New York Times Unsure from week to week how much money Congress will provide them as the two parties battle over the budget for the rest of this year, federal officials say many agencies have been operating in chaos, confusion and uncertainty. Officials at various agencies have frozen hiring...
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’...