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DHS CIO touts cloud

The Homeland Security Department has aggressively embraced cloud computing, said DHS Chief Information Officer Richard Spires before an Oct. 6 House panel. The department has identified 12 cloud Read more...

e-Verify self check online

Individuals in selected states can now use for themselves the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services electronic system some employers use to check the legality of new employees. The system, e-Verify, Read more...

Napoliltano: Einstein 2 to be fully deployed in 2011

Federal network intrusion detection system Einstein 2 should be fully deployed across the federal government by the end of this year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Jan. 27, while Read more...

USCIS e-Verify still flags eligible employees, says GAO

The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services electronic system used to check the legality of new employees has the potential to wrongly flag 180,000 people a year as ineligible to work in America, Read more...

USCIS readying self-check site for employment verification

U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services is readying a website that would allow individuals to check their eligibility for employment inside the United States. The Self Check site will query e-Verify Read more...

Bill creates Intel IG; E-Verify fails half the time;

> Bill creates Intel IG. Article > E-Verify fails half the time. Article > DHS awards $57M contract to InfoPro. Article > Next generation data centers. Article > Applying to military Read more...

IG: SSA failed to use E-Verify for 19 percent of new hires

E-Verify is a federal program that is supposed to make it easier for businesses and the federal government to verify that new hires are legal residents by checking a potential worker's Social Read more...

Self-check legal option for immigrants

U.S. immigration authorities are planning to make it easier for workers to pre-screen themselves with E-Verify--the electronic database used on a voluntary basis by some employers to screen their Read more...

Report: E-Verify needs a biometric fix

E-Verify has been a thorn in the federal government's side since Day One. The system allows employers to check an individual's Social Security Number to verify whether the number is valid. However, Read more...

E-Verify up and running

An estimated 150,000 companies have signed on to use E-Verify as of Sept. 15, the mandatory program for federal contractors to verify the legal status of workers, according to an article Wednesday in Read more...