Federal agencies are inoculating public IT infrastructure by not only listening to the Internet’s Immune System, but proactively inviting healthy input.
The Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting comments on its draft Trusted Exchange Framework, which proposes policies and standards to find and bind variant health care networks and facilitate electronic health record sharing.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is now saying that at least two people had their personal information stolen in the breach that happened last year.
Senators pressed Clayton for details about the 2016 cyberattack on the SEC, which was just disclosed last week, as well as the massive Equifax breach that was disclosed earlier this month.
The disclosure comes two months after a government watchdog said deficiencies in the agency’s computer systems put the information they contain at risk.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has alerted government employees of a scam involving the Thrift Savings Plan and other government employee retirement plans.
The four Atlanta-based former brokers who influenced federal employees to roll over their holdings from their TSP accounts have been charged with fraud.