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The Trends Reshaping Government Work This Year
William D. Eggers joins the podcast to discuss a new Deloitte report.
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Senators Reintroduce Bill to Bolster Federal Data Center Security
The bipartisan legislation seeks to protect federal data centers from physical and digital threats by establishing minimum requirements to enhance the security of these critical facilities.
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Planned Login-dot-gov Deployment at IRS is Postponed
The decision comes after concerns about implementing the sign-on service during tax season.
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IRS Taxpayer Advocate Says Congress Shortchanged IT Modernization Efforts
Lawmakers didn’t allocate the $80 billion provided to the IRS in the right way, claims National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins, adding that IT modernization and taxpayer services aren’t getting the money they need.
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CDC Seeks Digital Health App for Its Employees
The mobile application should provide meditation and mindfulness activities to help employees manage stress.
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OPM Gives Agencies Guidance for a New Program to Rotate Cybersecurity Employees
The guidance seeks to implement the Federal Rotation Cyber Workforce Program created by lawmakers last year as a way to foster new critical skills.
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Government Employees And Defense Contractors Still Have Got Bad Passwords, Report Says
According to new research, a majority of government employees with exposed passwords were found to have reused them across multiple accounts.
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‘Multiple Threat Actors’ Used Old Exploit to Access Federal Agency Servers
At least two groups tried to exploit the vulnerability to get deeper into the agency’s networks, including a Vietnamese criminal gang.
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DIA's New China Mission Group Will Track the Threat Posed by AI Development
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s China Mission Group will be monitoring the country’s use of AI software and other technologies in a national security context.
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Report: Increased Remote Work for Many Governments Also Raises Cyber Risks
Roughly one-third of government employees believe “their actions don’t matter when it comes to security,” according to a new survey.
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IRS Plans to Approve Use of Login-dot-gov as Tax Day Nears
The tax agency intends to add Login this filing season—and as early as next week—as the integration is in final rounds of testing.
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Acting National Cyber Director Offers New Details on Upcoming Cyber Workforce Strategy
The forthcoming plan is meant to accompany an overarching cyber strategy released last week that industry groups and cybersecurity experts said would be challenging to implement given the nation’s cyber workforce woes.
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Needed: More and Better Data for a More Equitable Federal Workforce
The federal government needs quality data systems in place to measure how well education and training programs are preparing skilled workers.
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The White House Will Officially Ban TikTok From Government Devices Within 30 Days
New guidance from the Office of Management and Budget finalizes a congressional push to ban the popular Chinese social networking app from all government devices amid privacy and security concerns.
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U.S. Marshals Service Hacked in ‘Major Incident’
This is the second time the agency has been hacked in recent years, adding to a growing number of agencies that have experienced cybersecurity incidents.
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GSA Seeks Commercial Procurement Data Solution
The agency is looking for a dashboard and reporting system that can also check for data errors or inconsistencies.
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Watchdog: GSA Needs to Monitor Access Card Data
The agency’s inspector general found more than 32,000 failed access attempts over a two year period, which could pose a security risk.
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White House Mulls Scaling up Login-dot-gov to Reach Every American
A draft of a long-awaited executive order covering digital identity includes a push to make government-owned Login-dot-gov an option for most federal benefits programs.
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Going Paperless Is Harder Than It Seems For Agencies
Iron Mountain Government Solutions' Melissa Carson joins the podcast to discuss how agencies are progressing in compliance with moving away from paper records in accordance with directive M-19-21.
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