The White House’s plan to transform the government’s IT infrastructure, workforce and data management is facing a familiar foe: entrenched partisanship.
During Thursday’s hearing, lawmakers displayed what appeared to be a basic misunderstanding of federal cybersecurity, encryption technologies and rudimentary facts concerning the actual 2014 OPM breach incident.
Donna Seymour, who served as chief information officer of the Office of Personnel Management during a series of catastrophic breaches on federal personnel and background check records…
After a December data breach of contractor KeyPoint Government Solutions Inc. that may have compromised the personal information of nearly 50,000 federal employees, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.,…
(Credit: Emma Whitehead/FedScoop) Editor’s Note: This story was updated at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 11, to reflect an added comment from the Senate Homeland Security and…
U.S. CTO Todd Park (File photo: Institute of Medicine) He may not be the U.S. chief technology officer anymore, but Todd Park, the technology lead under President…
The leadership of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee introduced amendments to the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 on Thursday. Called the Federal Information…
Former General Services Administration Administrator Martha Johnson personally apologized to Congress for the exorbitant Las Vegas conference, saying she will “mourn for the rest of my life…