Government Technology

The White House is considering endorsing a cybersecurity ratings model developed by Peter Zatko's Cyber Independent Testing Lab in an effort to help screen the safety level of software products, Nextgov...

Jack Wilmer, a Defense Information Systems Agency official, has said DISA needs to field tools designed to defend Defense Department applications from potential security vulnerabilities in commercial cloud environments. Wilmer, vice director...

The Department of Health and Human Services has elected new members to the department’s Health Information Technology Standards Committee and Health Information Technology Policy Committee. HITSC recommends standards, implement specifications...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council has released the third phase of its Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act implementation project for the Office of Management and Budget developed...

The U.S. Army has released a revised regulation that seeks to facilitate the reprogramming of software-based systems designed for use in cyber electromagnetic activities, the Army reported Wednesday. Bruce Woodmansee...

The Government Accountability Office has provided recommendations to the Department of Veterans Affairs on how the VA could modernize information technology systems such as its electronic health record to aid in interoperability with...

The U.S. and the European Union have amended their data transfer pact that seeks to heighten regulation of cross-border personal information transfers by companies, Reuters reported Friday. Julia Fioretti writes the new version...

The U.S. and Israel have reached an agreement that seeks to expand cyber defense collaboration between the two countries through sharing of cyber threat information. The Department of Homeland Security...

The Energy Department's Energy Sciences Network and the National Science Foundation's Cybersecurity Center of Excellence have organized a working group tasked to develop a threat profile for open science organizations. ESnet said Wednesday the working...

The General Services Administration's Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program team has unveiled a set of high baseline requirements for agencies to protect unclassified sensitive government data stored in cloud environments. FedRAMP said Friday three authorized cloud offerings...