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The slow-motion disintegration of a Justice Department-led effort to create a nationwide land mobile radio system for federal law enforcement leaves many federal agencies back where they started when Read more...

The Homeland Security Department is now in charge of a cybersecurity information sharing pilot with the defense industrial base launched by the Defense Department, DHS officials say in a Jan. 13 Read more...

If private sector providers of public cloud computing aren't at the very least able to provide two factor authentication for log-on access, they might as well not bother applying for provisional Read more...

The Homeland Security Department isn't doing enough to distill, promote and disseminate cybersecurity guidance to entities within the critical-infrastructure sectors DHS is required to assist under Read more...

House and Senate lawmakers have approved a spending package for federal agencies covering the remainder of the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. The bill, known as an omnibus because it consolidates a Read more...

The European Union announced Dec. 13 its parliament would sign a legislative agreement (.pdf) to share airplane passenger name record data with the United States. Since 2007 the union has used and Read more...

The Homeland Security Department released Dec. 12 its cybersecurity strategy, calling it a Blueprint for a Secure Cyber Future (.pdf). The framework aims to help it better use existing capabilities Read more...

Federal officials announced Dec. 8 the launch of FedRAMP, an effort for low- and moderate- risk cloud services to gain common cybersecurity certification under the Federal Information Security Read more...

The Homeland Security Department is adopting a federated database approach to information sharing, according to privacy recommendations presented by the department's Data Privacy and Integrity Read more...

The Defense Information Systems Agency will be the provider of first choice for Air Force, Army and Defense Logistics Agency data centers, says a Nov. 8 consolidation plan from the DoD chief Read more...