The record 35-day partial government shutdown had many long-lasting effects on the federal government. While 75 percent of the U.S. government including the Departments of Defense, Energy, Labor, and Veterans…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is entering Phase 3 of its Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program as they work toward “fortifying the cybersecurity of government networks and systems.”…
Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, have become a popular collaborative technology tool in recent years, allowing users to easily build helpful elements into their applications that overall improve the user…
With “digital transformation” and “IT modernization” at the top of many federal agencies’ priority lists, many departments are still assessing how to tackle their “cloud first” initiatives. Because this is…
Cybersecurity is now central to the mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as threats to federal government agencies become more aggressive and sophisticated. However, mission success for the…
We all know about the cyber threats presented by networks and connected devices, but did you know that one of the greatest threats to information security, especially for federal government…
In recent months, I’ve waxed, at times, a bit philosophical about how federal government agencies can drive IT modernization efforts in an era of uncertainty and tight budgets. However, it…
So far, in this series about building the government of the future, we’ve talked about a lot of possibilities, but mostly in theoretical terms. However, as the Modernizing Government Technology…
Since the summer of 2015 when the OMB launched its cybersprint program, federal agencies have become remarkably resilient in the face of persistent cyberattacks. The most promising evidence of this…