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- OMB: Report data breaches in one hour
- In a substantial policy change, all suspected or verified security breaches involving personal data must now be reported within one hour of discovery, according to an OMB memo PDF released last week. While the reporting policy used to be dependent on the type of incident and whether it...
- Blog posts 2006-07-19
- OMB releases guidelines for data security
- The Office of Management and Budget issued new security "guidelines" PDF to prevent data breaches today, after a month of revelations of shoddy treatment of personal information at the hands of government employees, the Washington Post reports. Agencies will have to encrypt all data on laptop or handheld computers...
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- On heels of VA's giant data breach, White House & GAO review security practices
- According to ComputerWorld, the White House Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Government Accountability Office GAO are jointly looking into the data security practices of the Veterans Administration as well as several other agencies. Recently, a computer containing the personal data of over 26.5 million people was...
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
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- Delays, delays on White House cyber positions.
- Where is the cybersecurity czar? And the White House intellectual property coordinator? The folks for those important federal tech positions have been chosen but there is no sign of announcements being made, NextGov says. The likely nominees for cyberczar: Howard Schmidt, former White House special adviser...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Achieving Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance (FDCC) with Lumension® Solutions
- The Federal Desktop Core Configuration FDCC is an Office of Management and Budget OMB mandated security configuration set applicable within United States Federal Government agencies. Private enterprises may also choose to utilize this established framework as a foundation for their own security configuration baselines. All federal agencies that utilize or...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- How to make Government 2.0 a reality
- Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Leaked Pentagon doc slams Lockheed
- A leaked Pentagon report said Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, failed to "provide the requisite definition and discipline to properly plan and control complex, multi-billion dollar weapon systems acquisition programs." This allegation casts doubt on Lockheed's ability to manage large programs, including major IT...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Who keeps failing their FISMA compliance?
- The recently released U.S Federal Computer Security Report Card for 2008, indicates that several critical to national security departments continue failing to implement the Federal Information Security Management Act FISMA. From a cyber espionage perspective, the lack of prioritization of departments that must...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- The Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC)
- This white paper reviews the ongoing OMB and NIST Federal Desktop Core Configuration FDCC program at an executive level. It provides information on how the program originated, its current status and source data for additional information. The concept of enhancing PC and network security while also reducing the total cost...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Google, CDT call for more searchable government
- It's time -- high time -- for government agencies to make their websites much more friendly to web search engines. That's what Google and Wikipedia plan to tell a homeland security Senate committee Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. The Center for Democracy and Technology and...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- OMB wants agencies to delete Social Security numbers
- OMB wants agencies to delete Social Security numbersDe-link the SSNThis is an action for which I have been advocating for some time now: Find some ways to de-link the SSN from personal information so that such data breaches have little effect. Short of total systems encryption, this is about the...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- OMB wants agencies to delete Social Security numbers
- Many colleges and other institutions have dumped Social Security numbers to identify people because of the ongoing security risk. Finally, the federal government is jumping on the bandwagon. The Office of Management and Budget recently issued a memo giving federal agencies 120 days to come up with a plan to...
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Census Bureau posted personal info of 63,000 people
- This may come as surprise to no one but the Census Bureau inadvertently posted on a public Web site the Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received financial aid, census officials reports the Washington Post. Although the Social Security numbers were removed from the site, there are still...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- U.S. government's cyber security grade: D
- The Cyber Security Industry Alliance has slapped three 'D' grades on the U.S. government's ability to secure sensitive data, strengthen the resiliency of critical infrastructure and protect the integrity of federal information.The grades appear to be an improvement of last year's report card when the alliance handed out an F,...
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Agencies fail to comply with FISMA
- Federal agencies are failing to test their IT security controls consistently, a new General Accounting Office report has found, Government Accounting News reports. “Federal agencies have not adequately designed and effectively implemented policies for periodically testing and evaluating information security controls,” the GAO concluded after surveying 24 major agencies...
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Roll-out of smart cards for federal workers begins
- The government begins issuing a new identification card tomorrow, The Washington Post's Stephen Barr reports. And in the years to come all government workers will use a "smart card" to verify their identity when they enter a building or log onto computer networks. The cards will have...
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- Data attack targets Commerce Department
- Data attack targets Commerce DepartmentI don't get itWhy is it the our commerical oferings can get by but our government with greater resources, or so I thought, can't get by.Don't get it... talk to your member of congressYou want to know why the government can't secure it's systems? Ask Congress?...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-06
- Commerce lost 1,100 laptops
- How many laptops has the Commerce Department lost? One thousand, one hundred, the agency revealed today - including 250 from the Census Bureau. Those contained personal information like names, incomes and Social Security numbers. The revelations comes only because the House Committee on Government Reform requested that agencies...
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
- Another hefty patch month for Microsoft
- Another hefty patch month for MicrosoftThere you go again with those pesky danged facts.;-)This is Zdnet1. The title is to generate Click Thru so that the ad farm of side commercials gets it's thorough usage and the bean counters are happy.2. All software needs so patching, retooling, but when it...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-08
- Vets Admin: Retrieve one stolen PC, another gets swiped(this time, just 38K names lost)
- Here's my question: when does someone actually lose their job in this case of ineptitude? Let's see. First, a notebook computer belonging to a Veterans Administration analyst containing sensitive data related to 26.5 million "VA" names (including 2.2 troops on active duty) gets pinched. Then, the the White House Office...
- Blog posts 2006-08-08
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