The Government Accountability Office is expanding an initiative to increase its production of prospective analysis, with implications for federal technology policy. Source: Next Gov  74 total views

 74 total views

The issue of how coding languages might support software developers’ management of memory has recently gotten attention from the National Security Council, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Congress. Source: Next Gov  67 total views,  1 views today

 67 total views,  1 views today

The national cyber director also indicated plans to rely on feedback from members of the software industry who are working on recommendations for “streamlining” sector-specific regulations. Source: Next Gov  157 total views

 157 total views

The federal CISO’s plan for getting agencies to focus on cybersecurity measures the administration considers most urgent did not go over so well in a shifting Congress. Source: Next Gov  151 total views

 151 total views

The money will be available to suppliers of information and communications technology in an effort to move away from Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE. Source: Next Gov  135 total views

 135 total views

The bill would require an annual report to Congress from the Office of Management and Budget with the goal of identifying funding needed for agencies’ transition to post-quantum cryptography. Source: Next Gov  129 total views

 129 total views

Discussion of potential changes centered on a need for software transparency and independent supply-chain assessments. Source: Next Gov  5 total views

 5 total views

The agency is exercising its authority to regulate pipelines and railways after issuing a series of short-term emergency security directives. Source: Next Gov  5 total views

 5 total views

Inspectors general from Commerce and Treasury present a tale of two testing regimes. Source: Next Gov  5 total views

 5 total views

Insurance companies are pushing for taxpayer assistance to provide coverage in the event of catastrophic incidents. Source: Next Gov  137 total views

 137 total views

Major industry groups clashed on how CISA should define key terms in its rulemaking process to implement the federal incident reporting law. Source: Next Gov  129 total views

 129 total views

The agency also suggested existing sectors be consolidated and that there is a need for some agencies to exercise greater authority over private-sector entities. Source: Next Gov  103 total views

 103 total views

The Biden administration is looking to Congress for help with ‘filling gaps in statutory authorities’ for improving U.S. cybersecurity. Source: Next Gov  106 total views

 106 total views

Federal agencies are under a binding operational directive to address exploitable security vulnerabilities in their software, but the success of CISA’s effort relies on the cooperation of software vendors. Source: Next Gov  160 total views

 160 total views

The agency has started to receive feedback from some key stakeholders for its rulemaking process on the issue. Source: Next Gov  125 total views

 125 total views

Influence from major industry threatens once again to thwart lawmakers’ attempts to realize their policymaking goals through the annual defense authorization bill. Source: Next Gov  19 total views

 19 total views

The agency has promised to measure the success of efforts to steer major software providers toward the inclusion of logging and other basic security features in their products “by default,” but has said little about how it actually intends to do that. Source: Next Gov […]

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NIST advisors debating the merits of OMB’s policy on software vendors’ “self-attestation” to secure development practices found common ground on a need for audits and testing. Source: Next Gov  251 total views

 251 total views

The senators are trying to focus more resources on artificial intelligence and access-control technologies for agencies to appropriately categorize documents in the digital age. Source: Next Gov  12 total views

 12 total views

Initial baselines address Microsoft services, and baselines for configuring rival services from Google are up next. Source: Next Gov  13 total views

 13 total views