Lt. Gen. Robert Ferrell, the U.S. Army‘s chief information officer, has said he believes a common protected data infrastructure is an “operational imperative” for all four U.S. military branches, the Army News
MoreThe U.S. Navy has developed a five-year strategic plan to build up the military service’s cyber protection teams and weaponize its computer networks, Defense News reported Thursday. Joe Gould writes the Navy’s
MoreEighty-six percent of 302 government cybersecurity workers surveyed by MeriTalk last month said they believe big data and analytics technology can help their agencies manage cyber risks. MeriTalk said Tuesday it conducted
MoreGovernment agencies are turning toward data encryption technology to supplement the network security standards in the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program as some agencies remain wary of cloud, Federal News Radio reported
MoreThe U.S. Office of Management and Budget has created a new group that will develop policies for dot-gov network security and ensure that federal agencies follow those protocols, Nextgov reported Monday. Aliya
MoreA survey conducted by SolarWinds and Market Connections found that IT security professionals at the Defense Department consider careless insiders as the top potential threat to DoD network security, Defense Systems reported Thursday. Kevin
MoreThe Defense Information Systems Agency has formed a new unit to coordinate the protection of the Defense Department‘s internal networks across nearly 40 military organizations, Breaking Defense reported Monday. “We can send out an order
MoreThe Defense Department is set to roll out a set of joint regional security stacks in January as it pushes the Joint Information Environment concept, the DoD said Friday. Terry Halvorsen, DoD’s acting chief information officer,
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Victor Gavin, the U.S. Navy‘s program executive officer for enterprise information systems, has pointed to network security and visibility as his top priorities as he continues to work with his counterparts and other
MoreThe U.S. Marine Corps has adopted a “comply-to-connect” method to prevent a computing device from passing malicious applications on to the branch’s enterprise network, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jason Miller writes
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