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By Saimon Michelson Feb 08, 2021 The SolarWinds attack is already being described as one of the worst cyber-espionage cases in history. This massive hack has compromised local, state and federal agencies in the U.S., as well as the European Parliament and NATO.  The sweeping impact of this data breach, which keeps broadening as new information emerges, is a shrill wake-up call for government organizations to rethink their data protection strategies. Anatomy of the SolarWinds attack In March 2...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published requirements that can help organizations protect controlled unclassified information against nation-state backed threats.

Starting this summer, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will begin to automate delivery of revisions to Special Publication 800-53.

The Defense Department’s MilCloud 2.0 contract now gives Defense Information Services Agency and other non-combat DOD agencies access to cloud services from Amazon Web Services.

By Dennis Thankachan Feb 02, 2021 COVID-19 changed the face of the government workplace in 2020, with more employees and contractors working remotely than ever before. The “work from anywhere, anytime” trend, vastly accelerated by the pandemic and innovative, cloud-based digital workforce tools, offers unprecedented flexibility and benefits for agencies and workers alike. The question for IT and network managers is how to best support this and other vital, modern business and communication ...

By GCN Staff Feb 02, 2021 During a widespread emergency, many responder agencies are unable to exchange information between their computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems, stifling situational awareness and introducing operational inefficiencies that can impair coordinated response. To address this challenge, the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute will develop interoperability standards for CAD systems used by the nation’s public safety agencies. The CAD2CAD project -- funde...

By Peter Elkind, Jack Gillum, ProPublica Feb 02, 2021 This article was first posted on ProPublica. As America struggles to assess the damage from the devastating SolarWinds cyberattack discovered in December, ProPublica has learned of a promising defense that could shore up the vulnerability the hackers exploited: a system the federal government funded but has never required its vendors to use. The massive breach, which U.S. intelligence agencies say was “likely Russian in origin,” penetra...

By Stephanie Kanowitz Feb 02, 2021 Before the pandemic hit last year, there were no city employees in Berkeley, Calif., who teleworked. Almost overnight, about 700 needed to find ways to connect from home to city systems. The key to enabling that was an infrastructure modernization project that had recently wrapped up, said Berkeley’s IT Director Savita Chaudhary. Berkeley replaced an eight-year-old system with Nutanix’s hyperconverged platform. “We needed to have a strong infrastructure ...

By Justin Katz Feb 02, 2021 Einstein is the Department of Homeland Security’s intrusion detection system. It observes traffic flowing in and out of federal networks, allowing the government to target threats identified by a database of known malware. That makes it unlikely Einstein ever could have detected the malware implanted into SolarWinds Orion because it was delivered to agency networks through a trusted update. However, overhauling Einstein to identify unknown or zero-day threats would...

By GCN Staff Jan 29, 2021 The Army is looking for a system that can export sensor data from soldiers’ exoskeletons to their smartphones and to dashboards leaders can use to get a better idea of warfighters’ health and locations. Exoskeletons transfer much of the weight a soldier carries to the ground through battery-powered, titanium legs, allowing warfighters to carry extra gear with less effort, even when climbing stairs or steep terrain. Modern exoskeletons provide back and knee support,...