via InformationWeek Government The federal government’s new regime for cybersecurity compliance, which leans heavily on continuous monitoring of IT system security, was supposed to cut back on the arduous and unnecessary paperwork that has historically been required. But Congressional auditors...
via ABC News In past wars, a hostile army would send troops to sabotage a bridge. Now a terrorist can send a suicide bomber to attack a mass transit system. In the future, experts are worried that malicious hackers — perhaps even working for China, Iran or North Korea — could bring down ...
via eWeek While cyber-attacks against U.S. computer networks are becoming more frequent and increasingly more sophisticated, the country is lagging in its efforts to beef up IT security, government officials testified in front of Congress. The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight held heari...
via The Washington Post In 2008, the U.S. military suffered the most significant breach of its classified computer networks when an infected flash drive was inserted into a laptop at a base in the Middle East, and the response was, in a word, confusion. Various military and civilian organizations &#...
via National Defense Magazine The hacker is only one ingredient in a network intrusion. While leaders are rightly concerned about outsiders breaking into their networks, they also realize that their own employees may have as much to do with the next breach as an outsider. In the rush to defend criti...
via Fierce Government IT Interagency collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and the rest of the federal government when it comes to coordinating research efforts for projects relevant to air traffic control modernization leaves much to be desired, says the Government Accountabilit...
via Federal Times Fourteen contractors will share in a $12 billion Veterans Affairs Department information technology project aimed at improving access to health care and winnowing the backlog of veterans’ benefits claims, the agency said Friday in a news release. The winners, chosen out of mo...
via Signal Online At a time when almost all of government is being squeezed by efforts to lower spending, a new report from a congressional watchdog agency strongly suggests that the Defense Department needs to do a better job of managing its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) syste...