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By Justin Katz   Top officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday told House lawmakers no federal agencies are known to be compromised by vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Exchange, but warned it is "an evolving campaign with new information coming in by the hour." "The vast majority of Microsoft Exchange servers have been mitigated across the federal civilian executive branch. We are working with individual agencies to assess their results of their forensic ...

By Justin Katz   Federal agencies still reeling from the effects of a massive hack involving SolarWinds may face a new challenge of evicting any adversaries that breached their networks through recently discovered vulnerabilities in Microsofts Exchange software. "Patching and mitigation is not remediation if the servers have already been compromised," the National Security Council said in a tweet on Friday. "It is essential that any organization with a vulnerable server take immediate measures...

By Adam Mazmanian, Justin Katz Mar 08, 2021   The Technology Modernization is poised to receive one heck of a present for its three-year anniversary – a $1 billion funding injection from Congress that would dramatically its capitalization. The TMF was founded by the Modernizing Government Technology Act and launched with $100 million. The fund has received three $25 million appropriations but overall has remained small – especially considering lawmakers initially sought to fund it with $3 ...

Quick Hits *** The congressionally chartered National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence submitted its final report on March 1. In the introduction, chairman Eric Schmidt and vice chairman Robert Work caution about the rise of lethal AI among U.S. adversaries and argues that "we will not be able to defend against AI-enabled threats without ubiquitous AI capabilities and new warfighting paradigms." *** The General Services Administrationannounced a share of a Bitcoin will be part...

A Senate amendment to the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act extends pandemic relief authorities to government contractors for paid leave through the end of the fiscal year.

Quick Hits Will Roper, the former Air Force acquisition chief, has joined the board of directors of Volansi, a company focused on autonomous, vertical take-off and landing middle-mile drone delivery services and holds a spot on the USAFs Skyborg program, and also joined the board of advisers at augmented reality firm Red 6. *** According to a recent Government Accountability Officereport, federal agencies continue to pursue data center consolidation goals without a clear, consistent metric f...

By Stephen Kovac   As agencies modernize networks in the work-from-anywhere world, they must eliminate traditional on-premise "castle and moat" security models. Modern security approaches are needed to protect hybrid and multi-cloud architectures -- and modern networks. Weve traditionally labelled network traffic as east to west or north to south. This is no longer relevant as more and more government users connect from devices outside the network perimeter. The network traffic compass used fo...

By Natalie Alms   The Office of Personnel Management instructed agencies on the details of how to uproot Trump administration workforce policies, as ordered by President Joe Biden put in place via executive order days after taking office. Much of the OPMs memo focuses on the series of 2018 executive orders that put restrictions on union activity at federal agencies and changed processes to make it easier to fire federal employees for poor performance. The memo also instructs agencies to head ...

The $1.9 trillion relief package could give federal employees up to 15 weeks of pandemic-related paid leave.

Lawmakers in December tasked NIST with to developing processes that would ensure software vulnerability reports flow to the appropriate government offices and the issues are promptly fixed.