The National Security Agency has cleared Samsung Galaxy handsets that run a mobile security technology for government use in managing classified information. Knox-equipped Samsung Galaxy devices have been certified through NSA’s National
MoreSen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, says his collaboration with ranking member Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has helped bolster their push for cybersecurity policy reforms, GovInfoSecurity reported Tuesday.
MorePresident Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring agencies to adopt tools and measures designed to safeguard people doing business with the government against fraudulent card transactions. He told agencies to
MoreDSS President and CEO Mark Byers has called on healthcare organizations to facilitate the transformation of the field from reactive to proactive through new strategies and investments in technology to leverage medical data. Byers wrote in
MoreThe National Institutes of Health will invest about $656 million in a biomedical big data research initiative through 2020 to develop software and support a training program for data discovery. Program grantees will work to identify novel analytics to
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The General Services Administration has created a new FedRAMP assessment category with the goal of helping vendors obtain security clearance for their government cloud products faster than usual, FCW reported Friday. Colby
MoreThe Office of the National Coordinator For Health Information Technology is building a shared road map for health IT stakeholders to establish interoperability across the health IT system. ONC officials said the office has been working with
MoreThe Missile Defense Agency led a test to demonstrate work by the Aegis ballistic missile defense system to detect and track missile targets, as well as other target discrimination, engagement and fire control functions. MDA
MoreCybersecurity practitioners Michael Papay, Frank Cilluffo and Sharon Cardash urge the Defense Department to establish cybersecurity as a requirement in system design and architecture to counter potential vulnerabilities to U.S. defense platforms and systems. Papay, chief information officer at Northrop
MoreApplication developer Phase2 has launched an updated version of its open source content management system based on Drupal to support government agencies’ information-sharing initiatives, GCN reported Oct. 9. The report said Phase2 designed OpenPublic 1.0 to further
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