No need to rush to thin client
Thin client is a technology whose time has come--or so it's been said now for at least about a decade, despite the absolute dominance of fat clients everywhere and plentiful horror stories about the office thin client from hell.
Howard Schmidt steps down as cyber czar
Schmidt's successor will be Michael Daniel, who for the past 17 years has served in the Office of Management and Budget's national security division.
HASC cyber language possible cause for veto
Why the provision might merit a veto isn't clear to all observers. "My reaction when I saw the language is it's not worth vetoing," said James Lewis.
VA's IT budget would increase under House and Senate bills
The House and Senate committees would fund VA IT systems at the same level as the White House budget request.
Reports of cybercrime increase slightly in 2011
The FBI finds the median dollar loss for those reporting a loss in 2011 was $636, and the average dollar loss for those reporting a loss was $4,187.
House and Senate appropriators cut DHS cybersecurity funding
House appropriations also voted to approve $241 million for the DHS OCIO an amount $71.1 million less than the request.
196 federal data centers to be shuttered in fiscal 2013
The federal government plans to close 196 data centers in fiscal 2013 according to newly-released figures posted May 11 to data.gov.
Most recent address data not necessarily the best for Census, say auditors
"We suspect shifting from a last-in model will likely encounter some resistance for fear that an address will be missed," auditors say.
Only vast majority of USCIS laptops updated and encrypted, say auditors
A random sampling of 287 laptops also found that only a vast majority of laptops currently in active use--93.5 percent--operated on the latest service pack of its operating system.
OIG: DHS CIO has little say over component IT budgets
Despite an ongoing and concerted effort to make the Homeland Security Department more cohesive, the DHS chief information officer is only viewing IT budget documents once they're submitted by components.
No accord on what 'cybersecurity' means in international affairs
Amid signs that cybersecurity increasingly is a matter for diplomacy as well as technology, the European Union information technology agency notes that there is no common international understanding of the term.
Spotlight: FedRAMP accredits third-party assessment organizations
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, on May 14 named nine third-party assessment organizations, or 3PAOs, that will assess and test cloud computing vendors' security controls.
DoD enterprise architecture to serve as the foundation for forthcoming iEHR
The enterprise architecture established by the Military Health System's electronic health record way ahead, will serve as the basis of the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments' integrated electronic health record, known as the iEHR.
ISPs actively scan defense contractor Internet traffic under DoD program
The traffic scanning program, said Eric Rosenbach, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy has been underway for a year with "a few dozen" companies participating in it.
Spires: DHS reducing redundancy
"It turns out, if you count it up--and we have--…we actually have 117 different screenings that we do," said DHS CIO Richard Spires.
Audio: Richard Spires speaks at AFECA NOVA
DISA eyes BYOD mobility strategy
TIGTA: Moar virtualization!
A March 30 inspector general audit on server virtualization at the Internal Revenue Service is the rare report where the main complaint is that the agency hasn't more aggressively expanded a successful project.
Americans less concerned about Internet security
Navy releases NGEN RFP
The 5 year, $4.5 billion solcitation for land-based network operations and management calls for up to 134,000 thin client machines.NGEN will replace the Continuity-Of-Service Contract, the federal government's largest network management program.
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