Federal

• Workforce

Coding it Forward, a student-started nonprofit organization, is empowering young technologists to bring about impactful social change in the federal government.

“We have to be intentional in understanding what our citizens are expecting and how they expect to receive those services. We have to fundamentally change how we deliver against those expectations … We need to use every lever we can to drive transformation.”

• Workforce

In the process of IT modernization, getting rid of tech debt could lead to an improved cybersecurity landscape that would help federal agencies better fulfill their mission needs.

• Cybersecurity
• Workforce

Educating everyone about security is especially important as paradigms surrounding cybersecurity shift. Traditionally, experts thought of a strong perimeter as the most important way to defend critical networks and systems.

• Cybersecurity

Federal agencies are taking cues from industry for some of their most pressing cybersecurity challenges.

• Workforce

The Department of Health and Human Services is collaborating on various technology pilot programs with public and private-industry partners to automate workflow processes, aligning data-sharing strategies with security and human-centered design.

• Cybersecurity
• Workforce

In an effort to draw upon talents and aptitudes within the federal government to close the cybersecurity workforce gap, earlier this year the Federal CIO Council created the Cyber Reskilling Academy, a full-time, three-month-long program for federal employees outside of IT roles to learn the necessary skills to become cybersecurity experts.

• Cybersecurity

Perspectives from federal agencies that secure some of America’s most high-value assets revealed that although agencies may agree on methods or best practices for dealing with cybersecurity threats, their approaches are not all that similar.

• Cybersecurity

State of Cyber CXO Tech Forum July 18 discussions around the origins of American information security and the future of the field.

• Cloud
• Cybersecurity

Agencies are implementing the continuous diagnostics and monitoring (CDM) mandate from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as well as employing cloud services and the Zero Trust framework to balance user access with network integrity.

• Cybersecurity

Discussions on complex security threats at the State of Cyber CXO Tech Forum.

• Cybersecurity
• Data
• Health IT

Federal agencies are collecting massive amounts of health data from patient electronic health records and clinical research trials for new insights, treatments and discoveries.