Chabrow, who retired at the end of 2017, hosted and produced the semi-weekly podcast ISMG Security Report and oversaw ISMG's GovInfoSecurity and InfoRiskToday. He's a veteran multimedia journalist who has covered information technology, government and business.
A figure bandied about a lot in recent months is $1 trillion. That's how much the Congressional Budget Office projects the nation's deficit could grow each year if much of President Obama's budget plan is enacted by Congress.
The commission that produced the report Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency may not disband, but instead continue to provide advice to the Obama administration and others willing to listen.
Citing the popular response the 96-page report has received since its release in December, commission co-chairman Harry...
The Influencers is a continuing series of profiles of the people who shape federal government information security and privacy policy.
Robert Carey
Chief Information Office, Department of Navy
Why He's an Influencer
Carey co-chairs the Federal CIO Council's Committee...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is issuing draft guidance aimed at improving the way government agencies educate their employees on information security awareness.
When Congress enacts and President Obama signs legislation to reform the Federal Information Security Act, perhaps as early as this year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be charged to develop new metrics federal agencies must follow to assure government information systems are secure.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson says computers in his office have been hacked at least three times one of them the Florida Democrat characterized as "serious" over the past two months, and he believes the breach came from China.
A Senate bill to establish an office of cybersecurity in the White House is in the works.
The legislation, sponsored by Sens. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Olympia Snowe of Maine, would establish a permanent cybersecurity official who would report directly to the President.
A big predicament the government faces is the high cost to fix IT security problems on federal government legacy systems that steals money away from the research needed to build new, secure systems.
Some $2.5 billion of the $787 billion stimulus package signed by President Obama in February will be spent on federal government IT, including information security, according to an analysis by the market intelligence firm IDC.
Malware infecting Internal Revenue Service computers increased by 45 percent last year to 961 incidents, according to a Treasury Department inspector general's report.
Though IRS automatically scans workstations weekly for malware, only 89 percent of the agency's servers are scanned each week. The others were either...
Vivek Kundra is back on the job as the federal chief information officer after an unexpected and forced four-day weekend leave.
The Obama administration placed Kundra on leave after the FBI Thursday raided the Washington, D.C.'s Office of Chief Technology Officer, arresting for fraud a top information security...
An audit of the Security and Exchange Commission IT systems reveals 23 new weaknesses in controls intended to restrict access to data and systems, as well as weaknesses in other information security controls.
Two companies that provide the federal government with information security services have become one. ManTech International has closed the deal to acquire DDK Technology Group, a contractor servicing the Defense Department's Naval Criminal Investigative Service. ManTech did not disclose the purchase price.
A single undercover investigator used fraudulent documents to obtain four valid passports from the State Department last year, the Government Accountability Office revealed Monday.
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