Cybersecurity
At a Senate hearing, cybersecurity firms defended the practice of paying bug bounties and pointed to regulatory gaps that hinder legitimate security research.
02/07/2018
Cybersecurity
The announcement, made in the middle of a House hearing examining the State Department's decision to downgrade its cyber office last year, could leave the Cyber Diplomacy Act in limbo.
02/06/2018
IT Modernization
The Office of Management and Budget is working on a rules-of-the-road document to cover how agencies can seek and use funds under the MGT Act.
02/06/2018
Cybersecurity
The FBI's cyber unit and the Department of Education cautioned schools nationwide of growing ransomware threat.
02/06/2018
Budget
A House plan to keep the government open past Feb. 8 faces an uphill climb in the Senate.
02/06/2018
A recent dinner with civil servants from Asia delivered some interesting insights, Steve Kelman writes.
02/05/2018
FCW Perspectives
Advances in cloud technology are shifting the focus toward choosing the right tool for the job and crafting solutions that truly modernize systems.
02/05/2018
Homeland Security
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) urged the Senate to move on restoring the State Department's cyber office and reorganizing DHS' National Protection and Programs Directorate.
02/05/2018
Workforce
Federal agencies are seeing an early yield from their participation in a first-of-its-kind governmentwide federal IT hiring fair in November.
02/05/2018
Congress
Congress is facing another appropriations deadline Feb. 8, and a fifth stopgap funding bill is likely necessary, assuming it can pass.
02/04/2018
Comment
A multilayered approach is needed to protect new mission-focused endpoints from botnets, spyware, insider threats and DDoS attacks.
02/02/2018
Big Data
Advanced analytics are playing an increasingly important role in the Department of Justice's financial fraud and drug trafficking investigations
02/02/2018
The White House has nominated William Evanina to continue his service as director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
02/02/2018
Privacy
Privacy advocates are wary of some technologies proposed in border security legislation.
02/02/2018
Analysis
Because of an unusual volume of complaints, it appears that Alliant 2 Small Business won't be open for business any time soon.
02/01/2018