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Analysis: FedRAMP's flaws
November 12, 2010
FROM NEXTGOV
On Nov. 2, the federal Chief Information Officers Council released a draft of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), designed to meet the security authorization challenges associated with federal cloud computing. Rather than meeting those challenges, however, the new program has major flaws that will lead to a ...
Security First
June 8, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
Holistic acquisition approach builds in agility to protect networks. Six and a half years ago, John M. Gilligan, who was the Air Force's chief information officer, told an assembly of 200 military and civilian IT managers that the dangerous state of federal cyber-security had to change. Few people in his ...
Security First
June 1, 2009 Holistic acquisition approach builds in agility to protect networks. Six and a half years ago, John M. Gilligan, who was the Air Force's chief information officer, told an assembly of 200 military and civilian IT managers that the dangerous state of federal cyber-security had to change. Few people in his ...
The Unsung Hereos of Information Security
June 1, 2001 nspectors general must assess the effectiveness of security controls, programs and practices in each federal department and agency by Sept. 1. Agencies without IGs must contract with independent evaluators to perform the assessments, which are required by the Government Information Security Reform Act provisions of the 2001 Defense Authorization Act. ...
Who's Watching the Store?
April 1, 2000 letters@govexec.com very sector is becoming increasingly dependent on information technology, especially the Internet, to conduct business and to stay competitive. That dependence has been accompanied by a growing threat from those who seek to disrupt Internet activities for personal gain or mischief. Look at some recent stories: High-visibility Web sites ...
Federal computers to face hack attacks
December 29, 1998 AlanPaller@aol.com During the first three months of 1999, federal agencies are likely to face unprecedented attacks on their computer systems via the Internet as part of a massive test of agencies' vulnerability to hackers. GovExec.com has learned that groups of executive and legislative branch personnel and researchers from nonprofit organizations ...
CyberCrime Comes to Washington
September 1, 1998 alanpaller@aol.com ederal agencies are ripe targets for a new breed of cybercriminals intent on making their marks. As the competition among hackers intensifies, it's no longer exciting or impressive enough to just sneak in, look around and leave some trap doors. Now hackers want to deface the systems or even ...
Information Systems Security Special Section
September 1, 1998 nferris@govexec.com, alanpaller@aol.com ith more and more mission-critical information on line, federal managers must protect that information from unauthorized access. Read about new biometric protections, ways to detect and fend off network instrusions and other important developments. Cybercrime Comes to Washington Federal agencies are ripe targets for a new breed of ...
Avoiding Attacks
August 1, 1997 ust after midnight on Aug. 16, 1996, hackers cracked the Justice Department Web site, replacing the Attorney General's picture with Adolf Hitler's. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mark Boster, contacted by the FBI, ordered the site brought down at 2:45 a.m. Boster, in charge of information resources management, ordered the department ...
