Vice Adm. Nancy Norton, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and Wash100 awardee, has said the agency is working to “isolate” suspicious activities in a cloud environment to support remote work operations, DOD News reported Thursday. "Our primary goal is to preserve and protect the ability of our workforce to conduct mission central operations that we support on national defense and current worldwide military missions," she said.
Read More »NOAA’s Chi Kang on SD-WAN, Network Segmentation Benefits
Chi Kang, deputy director for operations at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) cybersecurity division, has said that segmentation and software-defined, wide-area networking (SD-WAN) can support the implementation of zero-trust concepts. Kang said that SD-WAN has the capacity to ensure visibility and control across disparate networks and multiple endpoints.
Read More »Christopher Krebs: Agencies Shifting to Telework Should Boost Investments in Cyber Tools
Defense Officials Talk Benefits of VPN, Telework Tools in Ensuring Network Security
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has detected a surge of cyber threats following its implementation of telework across the service branch, C4ISRnet reported Monday.
Read More »Report: CISA to Issue Telework-Focused Interim TIC 3.0 Guidance
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will release interim Trusted Internet Connections 3.0 guidance to mitigate network-related challenges as more federal employees telework due to the coronavirus pandemic, Federal News Network reported Friday.
Read More »Suzette Kent: Agency CIOs, Industry ‘Acting With Urgency’ to Meet IT Demand
Suzette Kent, federal chief information officer and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said agency CIOs, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and industry partners are ramping up efforts to meet the information technology demand among teleworkers and carry out missions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Federal News Network reported Thursday.
Read More »DoD Concludes ‘Hack the Proxy’ Ethical Hacking Effort
The Department of Defense has conducted a bug bounty program with ethical hackers in an effort to identify vulnerabilities in the DoD Information Network, Fifth Domain reported Monday.
Read More »Report: DISA, Combatant Commands to Set Up Pilot Connectivity Network for Austere Environments
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has teamed up with select combatant commands to develop a network pilot that will provide connectivity to classified networks in harsh environments, C4ISR and Networks reported Monday. Alfred Rivera, director of the development and business center at DISA, will set up gray networks alongside the …
Read More »ImmixGroup’s Lloyd McCoy: DoD’s FY 2017 Budget Request Seeks to Deploy Commercial EHR System by 2022
Lloyd McCoy Jr., a market intelligence manager at immixGroup, has said the Defense Department’s budget request for fiscal year 2017 contains health information technology initiatives that would prioritize the deployment of a commercial electronic health record system. McCoy wrote in a Fedscoop commentary published Tuesday that DoD proposed the commercial …
Read More »Jennifer Edgin: Navy, Marines Adapt Commercial Techniques for Continuous Cyber Tests
The Naval Surface Warfare Center – Crane Division is working with the Marine Corps Systems Command‘s Program Manager Marine Intelligence to perform proof-of-concept tests on information security measures. NSWC Crane said Thursday it will utilize a virtual private network and the Defense Department‘s cybersecurity range to conduct continuous scans on PMMI tactical intelligence systems. “The virtual approach …
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