President Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to develop regulations to protect biometric, financial, genomic, personal health data and other sensitive personal information of U.S. citizens
MoreAn Ernst & Young report has found that 58 percent of federal respondents turn to internal data repositories as the key source used to train artificial intelligence models and that agencies are
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Leslie Beavers, principal deputy chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said DOD has initiated efforts to establish a zero trust environment, such as defining the
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is accepting public comment on proposed new controls in Special Publication 800-53 standards for federal information security and privacy. The comment period is open from
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Leonel Garciga, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, said he is prioritizing the development of interim policies for software, cybersecurity and data to help the service keep pace with technological advances
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Researchers with the Safe Documents program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have developed new tools and methods designed to mitigate cyber vulnerabilities in file formats. The SafeDocs program was launched
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The Federal Trade Commission is inviting industry input on the dynamics of cloud computing, including business practices, security implications, and its impact on competition. The agency said Wednesday that the request for
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Brendan Carr, a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, said the Council on Foreign Investment in the United States should initiate action to ban the social media platform TikTok due to concerns
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The Federal Trade Commission voted to extend the deadline for submitting public comments regarding the need for new risk mitigation rules for commercial surveillance and lax data security practices. Input will be
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A multi-country survey conducted by Accenture indicated that public service customers want digitized processes to be simple, intuitive and secure to ensure privacy protection. The company, which announced its findings on Wednesday,
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