The Office of Personnel Management has issued guidance for flexibilities in the federal compensation system that allow agency managers to recruit and retain cyber talent.
The incoming administration should in its first 100 days launch programs to train 150,000 cyber-professionals during the next four years, start developing a voluntary system of cybersecurity-standards…
Banks would be able to hide, move or encrypt their internal IT systems, network traffic and data to hide them from hackers and cybercriminals if technology the…
Dec 2, 2016
GAO Headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C. (Credit: GAO)
Two Democratic lawmakers, including the ranking member of the powerful House Oversight Committee, are asking federal investigators to audit the Trump transition team’s cyber and communication security…
The debate over law enforcement access to encrypted communications ought to be over, one of the leading tech-savvy members of Congress said Friday, because police and intelligence…
Nov 22, 2016
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From left to right: Erin Kelly, USA Today congressional reporter, with Steven Weber and Betsy Cooper from the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley. (Bipartisan Policy Center)
When it comes to the Internet of Things, the U.S. government should stick to maximizing the availability of spectrum and let industry deal with security, according to…
Federal agency CIOs ought to have the authority to stop major IT procurements if they have concerns about cybersecurity, agency executives told lawmakers Wednesday.
In the battle for cybersecurity, U.S. government computer scientists want to move the frontline — building security into software the way safety is built into physical infrastructure.
Companies that make products for the Internet of Things must build security in at the design stage or face the possibility of getting sued, the Department of…