Cybersecurity
The future of global cyber policies
As the world increasingly relies on the Internet as part of critical infrastructure, policies to govern cyberspace are beginning to emerge in numerous countries. A Brookings Institution report illuminates and analyzes them, with an eye toward their effects on the broader globalized Internet society.
Modernization
How to reuse, repurpose and recycle IT
The Defense Department is learning that older hardware, no longer able to perform its original functions and destined for the scrap heap, can often be put to another use.
People
DOD's No. 2 stepping down
Ashton Carter's last day as deputy defense secretary will be Dec. 4.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity's secret sauce: audits?
While a 'checklist' approach to cybersecurity is not effective, audits and compliance can be a tool for improvement.
People
What the shutdown says to the tech workforce
The shutdown is but one of several factors sending a discouraging message to the federal workforce, and to talented students and professionals who could be potential new hires.
Digital Government
Geospatial conference postponed
U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation announces that DOD's current travel restrictions make the GEOINT conference, planned to take place in Tampa, untenable.
People
Are we sitting ducks in the cyber pond?
Washington heavyweights warn that the shutdown could be potentially disastrous for national security.
Cybersecurity
Frequency, cost of cyberattacks on the rise
The cost of cybercrime averaged more than $11 million as reported across 60 organizations in a recent survey.
Digital Government
When standardizing data is not enough
A DOD instruction to make information more shareable and accessible has a serious limitation.
Cybersecurity
Restoring trust, international response eyed to boost cybersecurity
To hear some insiders tell it, the state of U.S. security is in shambles, with Edward Snowden, digital adversaries and a lack of cybersecurity legislation chipping away. But hope that the mess can be cleaned up persists.
People
Deadlines, deliverables on hold
The government shutdown is taking an early toll on programs that were nearing milestones.
Cybersecurity
Could furloughs put the nation's secrets at risk?
Seventy percent of civilians in the intelligence community are on furlough, creating a danger to national security and a chance that some could end up working for the enemy, says intell director.
Cybersecurity
Is FISMA why NSA influenced NIST?
The Computer Security Act of 1987 limited the NSA's ability to control certain government systems, but that changed 15 years later when FISMA was enacted.
People
DISA gets new vice director
Maj. Gen. Alan Lynn most recently served as commanding general of the Army's Network Enterprise Technology Command at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
People
Shutdown would give DOD civilians deja-vu
The furloughs brought about by a shutdown would be more sweeping than those DOD employees have already endured under sequestration.
Cybersecurity
NSA scandal hampers cyber legislation
Congress's efforts to pass a cybersecurity bill may be hopeless for now.
Cybersecurity
Shutdown would not threaten NIST framework schedule
NIST's preliminary cybersecurity framework, due in October, is essentially complete.
Digital Government
Between the cracks: From Fort Hood to the Navy Yard
Progress has been made on information-sharing, officials say, but 'obviously, we're not there fully.'
People
Deadly shooting prompts examination of clearance process
Aaron Alexis, the assailant in a shooting rampage at the Navy Yard, had been awarded a security clearance despite a past that should have raised red flags. Now the DOD, the Navy and an independent board will examine the process by which the clearances are evaluated.
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