NIST Special Publication 800-53 isn’t the most exciting book, but for federal IT managers, the canonical catalogue of cybersecurity controls is like the English Hymnal and the…
The latest kind of advanced encryption could soon allow classified computing to be done on unclassified computer systems, a senior intelligence official said Thursday.
Mar 31, 2017
Renee Wynn speaks at FedScoop’s IT Modernization Summit on March 28, 2017, at the Newseum in Washington. (FedScoop)
It’s axiomatic that cybersecurity is all about risk management, but NASA CIO Renee Wynn said Tuesday that all IT, indeed all technology, has a “dark side” that…
The way that U.S. government agencies respond to cyberattacks against the private sector from nation-state or other high-level adversaries is “fundamentally flawed” and needs to change, an…
For the first time, agencies were required to report only incidents that affected their operations, and to break those incidents down based on the attack vector used.
The White House is putting the finishing touches on a new draft of the executive order, originally scheduled for signature in January, former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano…
The chief of staff to billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel is slated to be a new deputy chief technology officer in the Trump White House,…
Under a bill approved Wednesday by a House committee, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology would show federal agencies how to implement the Cybersecurity Framework that…