Cybersecurity

Pentagon outlines upcoming contractor cybersecurity plan

Expect the congressionally mandated strategy by year’s end, DOD CISO says.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

The future of zero trust is about more than thwarting hackers, officials say

Defense Department officials noted that while progress has been made on deploying zero trust architecture on their networks, its capabilities don't stop with identity management.

  • By Carten Cordell

VA seeks cyber operations help

The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for capabilities ranging from cyber incident response and cloud threat detection to insider threat analysis to support its security operations center in a new market research request.

  • By Carten Cordell

DOD plans free software tools to support cyber compliance by small biz

The Department of Defense wants to bolster the number of small contractors it does business with, so it's planning to debut a series of free software tools to make it easier to work with industry.

  • By Carten Cordell

DISA seeks toolkit to implement a key piece of its zero trust framework

The Defense Department's information technology agency is asking for info on software products for a potential contract to support its Comply-to-Connect Program.

  • By Carten Cordell

The challenges of collective cyber defense

The federal government can leverage existing tools to meet some of the most demanding operational challenges posed by the national cybersecurity strategy.

  • By Justin Robinson

Vendors prepare to spend more on cybersecurity under new rules

Despite some complaints about the White House's new tack, industry leaders say most recognize the need for better defenses.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

NIH automated biomedical office teases small biz cybersecurity contract

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences is on the hunt for a small business contractor to provide cybersecurity services.

  • By Carten Cordell

Sketching out the rules for offensive cyber operations

The White House released the first-ever National Cybersecurity Strategy this week. It leaves the door open for more defined use cases for cyber operations.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

TMF invests over $40M to improve cybersecurity and digital services

The Technology Modernization Fund’s most recent investments will go to the Social Security Administration, the Treasury Department and the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

  • By Kirsten Errick

Navy ‘setting the pace’ among services, principal cyber advisor says

Chris Cleary touts prototype tools and readies a new cyber plan.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

DOD updates job qualifications for cyber workers

Defense’s updated plan focuses on role-specific requirements and comes as the agency’s cyber workforce strategy is slated for imminent release.

  • By Kirsten Errick

CISA teases industry day for operational strategy support

The cybersecurity agency is planning to field a multiple award schedule contract for consultant services to help shape its operational strategy.

  • By Carten Cordell

National Cyber Director to retire next week

Chris Inglis will retire almost two years after beginning the job.

  • By Frank Konkel
Featured eBooks

Building accountability into the coming spyware ban

A long-anticipated executive order to block foreign commercial spyware should also come with accountability for companies that neglect cybersecurity best practices.

  • By Chris Cruz

Tougher cybersecurity rules may be more than a year away—but don’t wait to get ready

Contractors should prepare for independent checks on their data systems, and maybe for more reporting requirements as well.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Making risk work for you

Why cybersecurity risk management requires more than just threat mitigation.

  • By Suzanne Spaulding

Hackers to get a crack at systems running the Pentagon in new bug bounty

Hack the Pentagon 3.0 will focus on the operational technologies within Defense Department headquarters.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Omnibus spending bill includes a ban of TikTok on government devices

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told FCW on Monday that Congress might have more work to do regarding national security implications of popular video-sharing app TikTok in the next session of Congress.

  • By Natalie Alms

Shifting left on day one

An IT modernization bill currently moving in Congress would be improved by a focus on building security into software from the very start of the development lifecycle.

  • By Chris Wysopal

Pentagon releases zero trust plan to keep hackers out of its networks

Defense agencies are to implement zero-trust standards by 2027.

  • By Lauren C. Williams