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Aliya Sternstein

Aliya Sternstein

Senior Correspondent

Aliya Sternstein reports on cybersecurity and homeland security systems. She’s covered technology for more than a decade at such publications as National Journal's Technology Daily, Federal Computer Week and Forbes. Before joining Government Executive, Sternstein covered agriculture and derivatives trading for Congressional Quarterly. She’s been a guest commentator on C-SPAN, MSNBC, WAMU and Federal News Radio. Sternstein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Aliya Sternstein reports on cybersecurity and homeland security systems. She’s covered technology for more than a decade at such publications as National Journal's Technology Daily, Federal Computer Week and Forbes. Before joining Government Executive, Sternstein covered agriculture and derivatives trading for Congressional Quarterly. She’s been a guest commentator on C-SPAN, MSNBC, WAMU and Federal News Radio. Sternstein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Features

"Every American Has the Right to Know"

President Obama’s push for transparency into government spending may have run out of steam.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Management

The Top 10 Women Cyber Guardians You Should Know About

A roundup of influential information security leaders to watch.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Analysis

How the OPM Hackers Killed the Password

The theft of feds’ personal information, not Hollywood’s selfies, might have finally sped up security measures.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Analysis

Mapping Threats

New software is helping intelligence analysts, but the most powerful processor is still the human brain.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Features

Wait

A new computer system was supposed to speed up immigration processing and reduce fraud, but it hasn’t worked out as planned.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Briefing

Privacy Negotiator

Civil liberties advocate Ari Schwartz walks a fine line between tracking and protecting citizens as White House cyber director.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Briefing

Around Government

Braving bureaucracy, malware magnets, building brain hacks.

  • Charles S. Clark, Aliya Sternstein and Patrick Tucker
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Advice And Comment

The Snowden Effect

Public aversion to domestic spying doesn’t seem to be hurting government’s ability to recruit cyber staff.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Thinking Ahead

Cyber Medic

Kevin Charest turned HealthCare.gov’s security challenges into a quest for better teamwork at HHS.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov

Cyber Arms Control

Congress wants agencies to stop the proliferation of war worms, but lawmakers haven’t yet defined what those are.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Thinking Ahead

The Whale Whisperer

Biologist David Wiley ventures outside the swim lanes to design an app that prevents deadly ship strikes.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Management

Can You Save the Whales With a Smartphone?

NOAA's Whale Alert mobile app can keep mariners from striking the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

  • Aliya Sternstein and Ross Gianfortune
Nextgov

Tech Roundup

Apps that teach, the cyber training slide, CMS’ testing troubles.

  • Joseph Marks, Aliya Sternstein and Bob Brewin
Briefing

Sensory Overload

DHS and Congress rethink surveillance gear along the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • Aliya Sternstein
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Nextgov

Tech Roundup

Ghost viruses, ID iris scans, lagging IT reform.

  • Aliya Sternstein, Bob Brewin and Joseph Marks
Features

Beyond the Breach

The Thrift Savings Plan bounces back from the theft of personal data on thousands of beneficiaries.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov

Cloud Control

Contractors seeking FedRAMP certification encounter hurdles.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Features

NSA's Big Dig

It’s no secret that Harvey Davis has a sensitive job building massive spy data centers.

  • Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov

Tech Roundup

Boosting access to federal data, securing mobile devices, the joint health record mess.

  • Aliya Sternstein, Bob Brewin and Joseph Marks
Nextgov

Access Denied

DHS is caught up in a decade-long struggle to secure port facilities with biometrics.

  • Aliya Sternstein