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.
Vivek Kundra's action that might cost him his job as the federal chief information officer isn't that he necessarily did anything illegal indeed, no such allegations have been made but his association with a subordinate who was arrested last week on bribery charges.
The Information Resources Management College isn't your father's or mother's graduate school. Part of the National Defense University, run by the Defense Department and based at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., IRMC offers graduate-level courses to government employees working in civilian and defense agencies in 10...
The Internal Revenue Service's Business Systems Modernization program continues to experience information security control weaknesses, according to a Government Accountability Office report issued Wednesday.
The United States is ill-prepared for a massive cybersecurity attack, the equivalent of a virtual 9/11 assault on federal IT systems and the nation's critical IT infrastructure, a panel of information security experts told a House committee on Tuesday.
The new federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, is a big believer in cloud computing as an efficient read: taxpayer money-saving way to deploy and use applications for government workers.
A big complaint about the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is that agencies complying with its provisions merely prove they're following processes aimed at securing information systems, but they don't necessarily prove the systems are indeed secure.
In an exclusive interview, Ron Ross, the...
Rod Beckstrom cited the lack of appropriate funding and the growing cybersecurity role of the National Security Agency, the super-spy agency administered by the Defense Department, as reasons behind his resignation as director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) effective...
Vivek Kundra, tapped Thursday as the nation's first federal chief information officer, will have a second day job, that of administrator of e-government and IT in the White House Office of Management and Budget.
The Obama administration is looking to develop metrics that would require agencies to continuously monitor the security of their information systems, moving beyond the quarterly and annual reporting required by the Federal Information Security Management Act.
President Obama created the post of federal Chief Information Officer on Thursday, and named Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer of Washington, D.C., to job.
With nearly 95,000 federal workers that's almost 8 percent of the government workforce telecommuting at least part time, information security managers face the constant challenge of assuring that data and systems remain safe from those accessing them remotely.
Tom Davis wrote the original Federal Information Security Management Act in 2002, and says the legislation has served the government and nation well. The one-time powerful chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, which provides oversight on information technology matters, feels it's time for Congress to...
The Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies released in December a report from the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, a bipartisan comprehensive study initiated in 2007 of the cybersecurity challenges the next president would face. Among the commission's recommendation...
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