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  • VA defends work to fix troubled veteran suicide hotline

    VA defends work to fix troubled veteran suicide hotline

    Grilled by lawmakers, the Department of Veterans Affairs insisted Tuesday it was well on its way to fixing problems with its suicide hotline and largely brushed aside the worst criticisms in an internal watchdog report released two weeks ago.

  • Archives, White House to save all Trump tweets, even ones he deletes

    Archives, White House to save all Trump tweets, even ones he deletes

    The National Archives and Records Administration has told the White House to keep each of President Donald Trump’s tweets, even those he deletes or corrects, and the White House has agreed.

  • Is NSA to blame for global WannaCry cyberattack?

    So far, experts and observers have cast blame, in full or in part, on factors ranging from, in no particular order, victim organizations’ poor cybersecurity hygiene, Microsoft, the NSA, the Shadow Brokers and North Korea-linked Lazarus Group.

  • Profiles in cyber: Understanding the US’s major adversaries in cyberspace

    We build on previous reports, drawing from recent congressional testimony, published cybersecurity research and expert commentary to create a concise introduction and convenient reference to the distinct motives, narratives, strategies, capabilities and operations of each of major nation-state threat actor.

  • GAO strikes down protest over $50B IT services deal

    GAO strikes down protest over $50B IT services deal

    The agency denied protests from four contractors over the GSA’s $50 billion IT services contract.

  • Expert details ‘centrality of information’ to China’s cyber ops, security strategy

    Expert details ‘centrality of information’ to China’s cyber ops, security strategy

    An expert on China provided members of Congress a broad overview Wednesday of current Chinese military and strategic thinking, including China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) focus on “informationization” (xinxihua) and “informationized warfare” (xinxihua zhanzheng). The expert also outlined the Chinese “integrated” view of cyber, network, electronic, space and kinetic warfare.

  • Options for incentivizing private-sector cybersecurity

    Options for incentivizing private-sector cybersecurity

    Cybersecurity is a unique policy challenge because over 80 percent of U.S. information technology infrastructure is owned and operated by private entities, according to former CIA Director John Brennan. Yet cybersecurity vulnerabilities in these systems, networks and products could have national security implications.

  • A new chance at digital transformation [Commentary]

    A new chance at digital transformation [Commentary]

    When I served as a federal chief information officer, there was a standing joke in government circles that the people work for the systems — not the other way around. And as with most jokes, there is an element of truth to it.

  • Trump shrugs off contradictions from Cabinet picks

    Trump shrugs off contradictions from Cabinet picks

    Nominees have gotten mostly gentle treatment from Senate Democrats who say they’ve found the Cabinet choices more palatable than the future president himself.

  • US Senate Passes NDAA With AT&L Split, End-Strength Boost

    Veto of defense bill looks unlikely.