Tag Archives: data security

Maria Roat, chief information officer at the Small Business Administration (SBA) and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said SBA’s security operations team is implementing SBA Connect authentication for new capabilities and performing penetration testing to address data security issues during the coronavirus pandemic, FedScoop reported Thursday.

The Government Accountability Office has found that the federal government allocated over $30 billion for telecommunications services and $4 billion for call center operations during fiscal years 2014 through 2018.

Aaron Weis, the U.S. Navy’s chief information officer and 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the service’s networks are “holding us back” and exacerbating information leaks through the defense industrial base and direct exfiltration, C4ISRnet reported Tuesday.

John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, has said that following the Australian and U.K. government’s examples will help the U.S. balance data privacy rights while improving law enforcement procedures, Nextgov reported Tuesday.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued its guidance on ensuring the security of government information housed in systems not owned and operated by federal entities.

Maj. Gen. Scott Pleus, director of air and cyberspace operations for the Pacific Air Forces, has said that the Department of Defense needs to develop nonproprietary and high-security data architecture to keep up with industry.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its final Big Data Interoperability Framework meant to support the development of software tools that can perform data analysis in any computing environment.

Personnel from the Federal Trade Commission released their recommendations on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s draft guidelines for helping organizations manage their privacy risks.

The Small Business Administration has concluded a pilot program to implement continuous diagnostics and mitigation in an effort to improve data security, Federal News Network reported Monday.

Lt. Gen. Karen Gibson, deputy director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for national security partnerships, said that the intelligence community must promote transparency to address evolving threats, Defense News reported Thursday.