ATO to cATO Cybersecurity Transition in The Federal Government
Federal agencies have long followed the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations to help agencies select the appropriate safeguards related to cybersecurity, privacy and supply chain risk management.. A key component of how agency IT officials assess risk and deploy new information systems is an authorization to ...
TechNet Augusta 2024: The Army Faces 3 Big Challenges, and …
The Army needs to improve its IT asset management to complement its security operations and create a more robust environment for the modern warfighter, according to CDW Government technology experts.. While the Army uses ServiceNow for asset management of its hardware and software, there are ways it can get more value out of the platform, such as providing the SecOps module to all its ...
Federal Technology News & Trends | FedTech Magazine
FedTech explores technology issues and successes that federal IT leaders and managers face when they’re evaluating and implementing a solution.
Are Agencies Using Their Tech Innovation Budgets Meaningfully?
RFID Is Rising to the Top of Location Tracking Options. As agencies consider the best ways to track assets, some are looking at vision systems.However, cameras — like barcode scanners — require the item to be in plain sight, and that’s not always possible.
Software Factories for the Military Scale DevSecOps
What Is the Army’s Coding Resources and Transformation Ecosystem? The Army’s software factory, Code Resource and Transformation Environment (CReATE), is designed to help its software teams get secure, resilient and scalable applications to end users fast. It includes a suite of DevSecOps tools, services and production pipelines …
FICAM: A Foundation for Zero Trust and IT Compliance
With the most recent Federal Information Security Modernization Act report cataloging 11 major incidents among government agencies in fiscal 2023, there is a clear need to continue improving overall cybersecurity. A key component is the federal identity credential and access management program created in 2009. FICAM supports modernized security …
OPM, GSA, SEC Provide Updates on Zero-Trust Plans
Agencies Are Overhauling Security; Others Focus on Specific Goals. Such collective efforts got a boost last April when the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published version 2.0 of its Zero Trust Maturity Model.The model offers agencies a comprehensive blueprint for implementing zero trust principles across five “pillars,” but leaves it …
DevOps Practices in the Federal Government & How it Helps
It wasn’t too long ago that developing software, especially in the federal government, meant writing code and sending it downstream — with many intermediary steps — to users.
Fall 2024 - FedTech Magazine
Brief Byte. AI in Action. A recent influx of TMF cash is allowing the State Department to deploy generative AI and develop a government playbook for its responsible use.
Chief AI Officers Ready Agencies for What’s Next
Generative AI, chatbots, large language models and machine learning have taken the world by storm. The federal government is no exception. As chief artificial intelligence officers take the helm to advance the many AI/ML initiatives now taking shape in every agency, new ideas and innovation — which only two or three years ago wouldn’t have seemed possible — are more welcome than ever.