The General Services Administration has established new controls for its online registration platform for government contractors and federal assistance requests in an effort to build on measures implemented earlier this year to address
Federal CIO Tony Scott believes that the hacking of the Office of Personnel Management‘s databases has brought a needed sense of urgency into the government’s cybersecurity policies, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Jack Moore writes
MoreSenators will vote on 22 proposed amendments to the cyber information-sharing bill if it comes up in September after the recess amid a packed legislative schedule, the National Journal reported Wednesday. Kaveh
MoreThe Office of Management and Budget is in search of a new chief for OMB’s Budget Review Division’s budget systems branch, who will be based in Washington and execute funds for the budget systems.
MoreThe National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has opened the comment period for a draft guide on access control measures for energy companies to reduce cyber risk. NIST said
MoreThe Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate has selected the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to conduct research on mobile security under a $759,727 award. DHS said Monday the mobile technology security research and
MoreThe Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has voted to uphold the Federal Trade Commission‘s decision to sue Wyndham Worldwide for three data breach incidents in 2008 and 2009, Reuters reported
MoreThe U.S. Marshals Service has issued a request for information on potential partners in academia for activities in support of the USMS Data Strategy that is part of the service’s transformational strategic plan. USMS said
MoreEric Sporre serves as acting deputy assistant director of FBI‘s cyber division and manages the unit’s operational branch. He was previously in charge of the cyberterrorism and Middle East-Africa units within the
MoreWhite House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel believes that cyber defenses at many government agencies still have room for improvement amid an increase in awareness of potential threats, FierceGovernmentIT reported Thursday. Dibya Sarkar writes that Daniel
MoreMark Peters, formerly associate director of the Argonne National Laboratory’s energy and global security directorate, will join Idaho National Laboratory as director on Oct. 1. INL said Thursday Peters will succeed John Grossenbacher,
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