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With New Policy, DOD Components Won’t Need DISA to Buy Cloud Services
The new guidance overrides two previous memorandums that charged DISA with assessing the security of commercial cloud service offerings.
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Get Ready for a More Efficient, Flexible FedRAMP
GSA's two-year road map presents a concrete plan for the future of FedRAMP.
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Should Agencies Ever Let Hackers Rummage through Government Networks?
USPS, State and the White House, during recent breaches, had golden opportunities to stalk adversaries.
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VA Turns to IBM Watson to Improve Veteran Care
The pilot program could show how cognitive computing systems can distill complex data sets into useful information.
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FITARA Analysis: Will CIOs Use Their New Powers for Good?
The fate of IT reform now lies almost squarely on the shoulders of agency chief information officers.
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Hackers Pocket Patient Credit Cards, Loiter for Half a Decade at Payment Processor and Exploit BT
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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Congress Strengthens Homeland Security's Cyber Role with FISMA Reform, Other Bills
A 2002 computer protection law finally gets an upgrade.
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Tech Explosion Makes Cybercrooks Harder to Catch
Are crimes in the cyber realm the only time it's OK to blame the victim?
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A 2015 Technology Forecast
Nextgov's Tech Trends 2015 ebook reflects some of 2014’s most impactful trends and areas sure to continue in the year ahead.
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Real-Life ‘Criminal Minds’ Team Tries to Root Out Rogue Federal Employees
Researchers say using technology to detect behavioral patterns could help federal managers screen out mischief-makers.
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6 Tech Takeaways in the New Spending Bill
From the Pentagon’s cloud efforts to a new $35 million cybersecurity center, read some of key tech takeaways of the bill.
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Microsoft Makes a Big Play to Become Government Cloud Provider
Azure Government is Microsoft’s answer to Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud.
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First Intelligence Agency to Host App in Amazon Cloud
The move of the Map of the World application to the C2S environment signals the IC’s intent to revolutionize how it manages IT.
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Torture Report: Seized Computers, Not Waterboarding, Thwarted Would-be Bomber
A confiscated computer and the CIA's cyber capabilities -- not waterboarding -- were essential in yielding information.
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Will Government Regulation Kill the Internet of Things?
The government needs to update regulations to accommodate the Internet of Things. But those rules shouldn’t be written in stone.
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Information Overload? Not For Most Americans
Almost all say the Internet and cell phones have made it easier for them to learn new things.
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Hackers Game Stocks, Target Hollywood Union and Pocket Medical Data
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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No More FOUO: Government Plans to Simplify Labeling of Sensitive Information
There are around 120 different designations for unclassified information that requires some sort of safeguarding.
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Pentagon Watchdog: DOD Stumbles in Cloud Computing Plan
An inspector general found Pentagon policymakers did not fully execute numerous elements of the strategy.
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