President Barack Obama has released a notice to extend for another year the national emergency he declared in April 2015 through an executive order to address the rising incidents of cyber attacks
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The Defense Department has partnered with San Francisco-based company HackerOne to carry out a “bug bounty” program that will involve vulnerability identification and analysis on public DoD websites over a 20-day period. DoD’s
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Chuck Brooks, vice president for government relations and marketing at Sutherland Global Services, believes the U.S. should exercise vigilance, adopt intelligence and surveillance technologies and deploy trained security personnel to prevent attacks on soft targets. He
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A new study by Tenable Network Security indicates a high level of confidence among organizations in the cybersecurity framework of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is the preferred
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The Department of Homeland Security has said it has received 321 reports of ransomware-related incidents from 29 federal agencies, The Hill newspaper reported Wednesday. Cory Bennett writes DHS noted that there were no
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Peter Levine, deputy chief management officer at the Defense Department, has been tapped to replace Brad Carson as the DoD acting undersecretary for personnel and readiness, Military Times reported Wednesday. Karen Jowers writes Levine
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The Defense Department Inspector General has urged the DoD chief information officer to revise the department’s data center consolidation strategy to work toward its 60-percent goal by fiscal 2018. DoD IG said in a
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Outgoing U.S. Special Operations Command Commander Gen. Joseph Votel has handed over the reins to successor Gen. Raymond Thomas during a change-of-command ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base, DoD News reported Wednesday. Lisa Ferdinando writes
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The White House has announced developments on cross-agency priority goals to improve the delivery of government services to the public for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016. Shaun Donovan, director of the Office
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Janine Davidson has began work as the U.S. Navy chief management officer and an undersecretary of the service branch after being sworn in to her new duties on March 22. The Navy said Monday Davidson’s new role
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