Stories about: Office of Management and Budget

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Protect data with on-the-go drive encryption 03 March, 2010 03:59

This past January, the health organisation Kaiser Permanente reported a theft of an external hard drive from an employee's car. The hard drive contained data on about 15,500 Northern California patients, including their full names, medical record numbers, and, in some cases, gender, dates of birth, and other info on treatment and care received at Kaiser (but not patients' social security numbers or financial data).
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Bill would restrict P2P use on US government networks 19 November, 2009 07:17

House lawmakers introduced a bill that would restrict the use of peer-to-peer technology on government networks in response to several embarrassing data leaks.
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Making the move to government IT 08 April, 2009 23:25

As wave after wave of corporate layoffs remake the American business landscape, IT managers find themselves wondering if they should consider a personal bailout strategy of their own -- government IT job.
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Obama administration to inherit cybersecurity challenges 21 November, 2008 08:27

As President Bush prepares to leave office, the task of upgrading the security of federal information systems to deal with new cyberthreats continues to be very much a work in progress.
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IETF: Should we ignore the Kaminsky bug? 21 November, 2008 07:41

The Internet engineering community is grappling with what to do about a serious flaw in the DNS discovered mid-year, and the ongoing debate brings to mind a famous quotation from Voltaire: "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
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US gov't increasing efforts to fight ID theft, report says 22 October, 2008 10:40

The U.S. government has taken several steps to combat identity theft during the past two years, including increased prosecutions of criminals and decreased use of Social Security numbers to identify constituents, according to a report released Tuesday.
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How the feds are locking down their networks 12 August, 2008 08:52

The US federal government is locking down its networks through an ambitious and fast-paced effort to eliminate connections to the Internet that are vulnerable to attack.
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We are ready for IPv6 D-Day 27 June, 2008 09:10

On June 30, US federal government officials expect to declare an early victory on the IPv6 front. But they admit that meeting their much-heralded June 30 deadline for IPv6 compatibility is just the opening salvo of a long-term battle to get their networks ready for the Internet of the future.
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US Feds: We will meet June IPv6 deadline 03 April, 2008 12:05

US federal government officials are confident they will meet a June 30 deadline to support IPv6 on their backbone networks, but they see challenges ahead in transitioning their production networks to this long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.
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Federal desktop security mandate set to kick in 30 January, 2008 08:12

On Wednesday the US federal government's desktop security mandate kicks in, requiring government agencies to support standard secure configurations for Windows XP and Vista operating systems.
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Symantec: Gov't needs to take new cybersecurity steps 08 January, 2008 07:42

U.S. government agencies need to take additional steps to protect against cybersecurity problems after a series of congressional hearings and reports exposed several weaknesses in 2007, representatives of Symantec said.