HSPD-12 news from FierceGovernmentIT

The Transportation Department continues to have difficulty remediating cybersecurity vulnerabilities, the departmental inspector general says in an annual assessment on Federal Information Security Read more...

Credentials used to access Veterans Affairs Department facilities and information systems were improperly issued due to missing procedures and significant control lapses in enrollment center Read more...

When the White House issued policy in 2004 under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 requiring agencies to issue standardized personal identification cards to federal employees and Read more...

Compliance at the Securities and Exchange Commission with a governmentwide mandate to issue employees and contractors smart identity cards has been lacking, finds the SEC inspector general. In a Read more...

Not much is publically known about Office of Management and Budget TechStat meetings--far less than we think should be known--so we searched for trends in the TechStat meeting data we managed to get Read more...

When earlier this year Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra began touting a series of Office of Management and Budget-led reviews of agency technology programs dubbed "TechStat," we were Read more...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The Homeland Security Department might house sensitive information in a public cloud within the next three to five years, said Richard Spires, DHS chief information officer, while Read more...

The Veterans Affairs Department is years behind implementation of HSPD-12 thanks in part to a credentialing system that lacks key functionality, says the VA inspector general. In a report dated Sept. Read more...

The General Services Administration might have caused agencies to inadvertently break the rule restricting the use of one fiscal year's funds for services rendered in another. In a report dated Sept. Read more...

By Molly Bernhart Walker and David Perera The White House plans to reveal June 25 a strategy for verifying the online identity of Internet users, said cyber czar Howard Schmidt, speaking June 22 Read more...