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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Secure Identity and Access Management
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Getting ID and access management right is important for several reasons. Sean Frazier, the federal chief security officer at Okta points out that the ID and access management “plane” in systems is an attractive place for attackers to gain access to networks and data.
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Identity and access management, along with zero trust architecture and supply chain risk management, are key foundational points of the president’s cybersecurity executive order issued in May.
At the Education Department, Chief Information Security Officer Steven Hernandez said people’s concept of identity will need to evolve.
At GAO’s Innovation Lab, which is designed to be a practioner of new computational capacity, identity verification is a major issue.
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Key cyber agency set to get procurement authority, contracting officers
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is continuing its fast evolution as a standalone department.
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How the public sector can overcome training and skills gaps to combat rising cyber threats
Strengthening the current cybersecurity workforce with knowledgeable employees and implementing new cloud-based programs alongside legacy systems would significantly protect the U.S. public sector from looming threats.
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GSA hits the play button on POLARIS by finalizing solicitation updates
The General Services Administration lifted its two-month pause on the small business IT services governmentwide acquisition contract after updating the mentor-protégé requirements.
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Can we take a moment to appreciate our free country?
Fourth of July is a reminder that rough political debate hasn’t yet managed to overwhelm the country
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GSA looks to reach 100M Login.gov users by year’s end, starting with VA partnership
The Biden administration is setting a high bar for customer experience across government, but it’s the General Services Administration that’s laying the foundation for those improvements.
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Regulators enforcing sanctions against Russia face an uphill battle. AI is their ally
AI can decode enormous amounts of financial data to discover the DNA of complex crime behaviors.
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A guy deep in the Defense Department is actually doing something about Chinese theft of US intellectual property
It’s become an unfunny joke. No matter what crucial intellectual property gets developed in the United States, it gets stolen by China or maybe Russia. A special team deep in the Defense Department has been working on one strategy to counteract this. It looks for investments in U.S. companies by suspicious foreigners. For his work collaborating with many other agencies, the team leader is a finalist in this year’s Service to America Medals program.
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To improve its customer experience, SSA found an unusual partner from the NFL
Patrick Newbold, assistant deputy commissioner and deputy chief information officer at SSA, said meeting with the Baltimore Ravens about how they use their data to drive decisions helped the agency improve its customer experience.
