via Digital ID News When the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace was released in April some described it was “Woodstock for identity geeks.” Industry officials were excited to see the plan and hear what was announced, but there weren’t a lot of surprises. The goa...
via InformationWeek Government The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released new reporting metrics for agency compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) that focus on continuous cybersecurity monitoring. The new metrics should bolster the federal government̵...
via SecureID News IDmachines and other colleagues attended a workshop last week at the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. on the draft FIPS 201-2. The workshop enabled NIST, other government agencies and industry to discuss the initial changes ...
via Government Computer News E-mail is considered low-hanging fruit for government IT managers who are starting down the road toward cloud–based services. But that doesn’t mean the first step to an e-mail migration will be a walk in the park. Instead, agencies seeking to move e-mail to the c...
via TMCnet Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, a regulatory watchdog founded and managed by former regulatory officials of the White House Office of Management and Budget, issued a draft of recommendations for NIST–The National Institute for Standards and Technology. The CRE emphasized the Ad...
via InformationWeek The federal agency for implementing technology standards has published a guide to help government organizations weave overall objectives and goals into the fabric of their security strategy. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published “Managing I...
via Federal News Radio Agencies have about 18 months to put in place the capability to know the real-time security of their computer networks. Similar to when patient visits a doctor and has their vital signs taken to assess their health, agency chief information officers and chief information secur...
“The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft of its guidelines for implementing enterprisewide information risk management. The document defines the underlying principles for implementing the Federal Information Security Management Act. ‘This is the capstone docum...