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The Defense Information Systems Agency will be absorbing the Defense Department’s Cloud Computing Program Office by the end of January, the agency's director said.

By Stephanie Kanowitz Jan 08, 2021 Market forecasts paint a rosy picture of smart city investment, but many municipalities are slashing budgets, laying off workers and cutting services as the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues. To adapt to the budget shortfalls resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, smart city efforts must be more strategic, said Ruthbea Yesner, vice president of Government Insights and Smart Cities at IDC Government Insights. “We have to be really strategic with our plan and our investing because we just aren’t going to have any wiggle room in terms of ...

By Justin Katz Jan 07, 2021 The Justice Department confirmed its systems were hacked by suspected Russian intelligence agents that exploited a backdoor vulnerability in the SolarWinds Orion IT management software. Attackers are believed to have accessed "around" 3% of email inboxes, but not any classified systems, according to DOJ spokesman Marc Raimondi. DOJ's confirmation comes the day after the White House’s Cyber Unified Coordination Group first attributed the SolarWinds Orion hack to a Russian entity. The group also said it believes "fewer than" 10 federal agencies were victimized by...

By Justin Katz Jan 06, 2021 Russia is the likely culprit of the widespread hack of U.S. networks, a White House task force concluded. Since the attack, analysts and some administration officials have suggested a Russian intelligence service is behind the attack on SolarWinds' Orion product, but the Jan. 5 statement from the Cyber Unified Coordination Group -- which includes the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- is the first time the federal government has explicitly attributed th...

By Lauren C. Williams Oct 29, 2020 While the Defense Department plans to beef up its primary telework platform, the Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) environment, by next summer, it is also working on a more secure version, according to John Sherman, DOD's principal deputy CIO. The Defense Department rolled out CVR earlier this year to accommodate teleworking in response to the pandemic. So far, over a million users are using it for telework, collaboration, calls and video conferences, but a permanent version of the Office 365-based capability is required to support higher-sensitivity, control...