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InternetNews
August 12, 2005
Roy Mark |
Lieberman Raps Federal IT Security Systems The senator points to latest GAO report underscoring pervasive computer security weaknesses in 24 major government agencies. According to the report, the deficiencies place federal operations and assets at increased risk.   |
InternetNews
March 16, 2006
Roy Mark |
Feds Again Flunk Network Security A large percentage of federal agencies flunked their annual network security review under the Federal Information Security Management Act, including the Department of Homeland of Security and the Department of Defense. |
InternetNews
April 13, 2007
Roy Mark |
Feds Pass Information Security Test -- Barely The government's annual agency information security reports cards are out, and Uncle Sam is still struggling to protect sensitive data. |
InternetNews
February 16, 2005
Tim Gray |
Feds Fail Computer Security Test Despite improvements, the government's computer security program proves lacking once again. |
National Defense
October 2007
Grace Jean |
Agencies Still Lacking Coordination to Handle Another 9/11 A recent report suggests that federal agencies might not be better prepared to handle another major in-flight emergency should it materialize. |
InternetNews
August 30, 2005
Roy Mark |
GAO: Feds Not Protecting Citizen Privacy Government agencies are making progress, but are still not completely complying with federal rules regarding data mining and personal information. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Panel Slams Federal IT Security With cyber-attacks against the government surging, U.S. agencies fail to meet the challenge. |
InternetNews
May 25, 2005 |
Fed IT Security Spending to Jump 20% Agency spending on cybersecurity is projected to grow from $6.1 billion to $7.3 billion. |
Information Today
August 6, 2012
Barbie E. Keiser |
Cybersecurity and Privacy Concerns at the Highest Levels of Government Ensuring the privacy and security of personal information collected by federal government agencies and preventing cyberattacks in the future is a responsibility of government that all Americans can support. |
National Defense
August 2011
Eric Beidel |
Protectors of Critical Networks Look Within For Vulnerabilities The hacker is only one ingredient in a network intrusion. While leaders are rightly concerned about outsiders breaking into their networks, they also realize that their own employees may have as much to do with the next breach as an outsider. |
CFO
December 1, 2006
Lori Calabro |
The Office of Management & Budget's Linda Combs How the CFO Act is slowly improving the government's financial management. |
Information Today
May 31, 2012
Barbie E. Keiser |
Government in the Mobile Era A document released May 23, 2012, Digital Government: Building a 21 st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People, reveals the Obama administration strategy to enable citizens to find the services they need across government programs, "anytime, anywhere, and on any device." |
National Defense
December 2009
McGrath & Connolly |
Industry Should Prepare for Review of Ethics Programs Contractors may soon have more complete answers as to how the Defense Department will verify contractor compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation's recent ethics program requirements. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Eugenie Samuel Reich |
Stimulus Funds for Science Raise Concern about Misconduct About $31 billion in stimulus funds will go to science. Can watchdogs keep track of those funds? |
Information Today
October 20, 2015
Barbie E. Keiser |
The Federal Government Turns To Silicon Valley for Tech Support What's needed is input from these experts, but more importantly, a new viewpoint from a young demographic that works in new ways. |
InternetNews
December 1, 2006
Roy Mark |
GAO: FCC Needs Better Competition Data A new report claims FCC information is too limited to accurately describe the state of telecom competition. |
InternetNews
June 1, 2010 |
National Defense Act Creates Cybersecurity Post Plan to overhaul national cybersecurity infrastructure now includes the creating of a formal cybersecurity office in the White House. |
National Defense
October 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
Security Beat Homeland Security Dept. Finances Found in Disarray... Effort Underway to Boost Bioscience Security... Corporate Supporters of Terror States Under Scrutiny... Cities Get Tutored on Disaster Communications... etc. |
National Defense
September 2004
David M. Walker |
Defense Transformation: A Battle the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose A crunch is coming. Although national defense and homeland security have received generous funding in recent years, this cannot continue indefinitely. Defense budgets of the future almost certainly will be tighter. It is time to recognize that we are in a fiscal hole, and stop digging. |
National Defense
May 2009
Moorhouse & Connolly |
Further Government Contracting Reform on the Obama Agenda The administration has committed to take specific steps to reduce wasteful spending, overcharges, and fraud. |
InternetNews
April 22, 2010 |
White House To Modernize Cybersecurity Reports New directive requires government agencies to get with the times and abandon paper-based reporting for real-time digital updates on all potential cyber-security threats. |
Information Today
December 9, 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
Government Printing Tug of War Continues The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum on May 3, 2002 that directed executive agencies to contract directly with private firms for printing their documents. Things have gotten even more complicated since then in a bitter spate of infighting. |
National Defense
August 2014
Christina Munnell |
Government Urged to Rein In Radiological Materials A government watchdog said the three agencies charged with securing radiological materials that can be used to make dirty bombs need to collaborate more closely. |
Bank Systems & Technology
July 12, 2007
Larry Greenemeier |
Link Between Data Breaches And ID Theft Unclear, GAO Reports A U.S. Government Accountability Office report indicates that while the amount of information lost or stolen is disturbing, it's difficult to prove that these breaches lead to identity theft. |
InternetNews
July 27, 2010 |
Google Plans for More Government Deals Google CEO Schmidt thinks governments are anxious to make a transition to the cloud. |
Chemistry World
May 7, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Travel policies restrict US government scientists attending conferences The American Chemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science -- have expressed 'deep concerns' about the Obama administration's regulations and policies affecting the travel of US government scientists and their attendance at conferences. |
Chemistry World
August 30, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
EPA's laboratory management weaknesses persist A new report by the congressional Government Accountability Office finds that the agency's failure to respond to multiple calls to reorganize its 37 labs could be resulting in duplication and waste. |
InternetNews
May 20, 2010 |
Feds Seeks Blue-Sky Ideas for Cybersecurity Multiple federal agencies have established a portal to solicit help from the private sector to devise new strategies and technologies to safeguard critical data networks. |
CFO
October 1, 2004
Kris Frieswick |
Losing Battles Two decades of failed Pentagon financial reforms put more than just dollars at risk. And serious reform in so enormous an organization will still take a Herculean effort. |
CIO
March 1, 2001
Rebecca Lynch |
Your Tax Dollars at Work? Federal agency CIOs could save you billions through supply chain automation. They don't... |
CFO
April 1, 2008
Lori Calabro |
The GAO's David Walker Why David M. Walker decided he could spread the word about the government's fiscal maladies more effectively by moving to private life. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2010 |
Tripwire Enterprise 8.0 Automates Compliance Enhancements in Tripwire Enterprise 8.0 automate compliance and repair of configuration errors. |
CIO
May 15, 2004
Paul Roberts |
Fed Fingerprint Database Spreads Across U.S. - Criminal Justice The wider use of fingerprint scanning technology in recent years has made it easier than ever for law enforcement officials to share information about criminals and quickly compare a suspect's fingerprint image with millions of similar imprints. |
InternetNews
February 24, 2010 |
Microsoft Targets Federal Agencies With Suite The BPOS online services suite is designed for federal and public-sector agencies. |
InternetNews
April 28, 2010 |
Obama Tech Chiefs Post Agencies' e-Gov Ratings Federal CTO Chopra and CIO Kundra post score card evaluating agencies' open government plans as a pair of studies surface describing increasing citizen engagement with government online. |
CFO
June 1, 2010
Randy Myers |
Ratings Disaster Congress takes another stab at reforming the credit-rating agencies, whose AAA seal of approval helped fuel the subprime crisis. But will any change truly make a difference? |
CIO
July 1, 2004
Todd Datz |
Slow March Toward Online Government A year after he took office, President Bush signed the E-Gov Act, which promised a leaner, more efficient federal government. A report by the General Accounting Office says progress has been mixed, due in no small part to a lack of funding. |
Reason
September 2004
Julian Sanchez |
Extra Credit An April report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) shows an audit of charge cards issued to federal employees found the cards were routinely abused, and the abusers were seldom punished. |
Information Today
July 29, 2010 |
Google Announces Google Apps for Government Google announced a new edition of Google Apps designed for government, with specific measures to address the policy and security needs of the public sector. |
National Defense
May 2008
Moorhouse & Connolly |
Contractors' Conflicts of Interest Under Scrutiny Contractors may soon be required to police their employees' personal conflicts of interest. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
Quit Whining, Ratings Agencies! Fast-forward to the day financial reform is signed into law. Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's (a division of McGraw Hill), the big three debt ratings agencies, are refusing to rate debt. |
InternetNews
July 10, 2007
Roy Mark |
Many Breaches, Few ID Thefts Data breaches are frequent, but evidence of actual identity theft resulting from the breaches is limited, according to a new report by the General Accountability Office. |
Entrepreneur
November 2008
Sara Wilson |
Fraud Rattles SBA Program An investigation of the HUBZone Empowerment Contracting program revealed millions in loans to ineligible and even fake businesses. |
Chemistry World
January 29, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
EPA's chemical evaluation process 'high-risk' The US government's 32-year-old law regulating chemical safety needs a complete overhaul, according to Congress' investigative arm |
