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The Uncertainty Of Mobile Device Security

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At the beginning of his administration, President Obama created a minor controversy by insisting on using a personal mobile device. But much of that debate, such that it was, revolved around presidential records. Little was said, at least publicly, about the profound security implications of the commander in chief sending and receiving important, possibly vital, information through cyberspace.

Appropriately, even less was known about the type of data President Obama accesses, creates, and stores on the device, and the degree to which any such data is stored in “the cloud,” particularly in non-government-controlled cloud storage. What is known, however, is that mobile devices are the most prevalent, and most rapidly expanding, gateways to all types of cloud services. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 24, 2012 at 8:01 AM

NOAA Abandons BlackBerries for iPhones, iPads

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will save thousands of dollars by trading its fleet of BlackBerries for iPhones and iPads in the next few months.

CIO Joseph Klimavicz told Breaking Gov the change, expected to take place by June 1, would save substantial costs associated with managing BlackBerry devices. He declined to specify savings other than to say it would be “thousands of dollars” now spent on managing close to 3,000 devices. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon On Powering Sustainable Energy For All

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in a special contributed post to Breaking Gov’s sister site, Breaking Energy, discuss his vision behind the UN’s new Sustainable Energy for All initiative and the need for everyone –governments, the private sector and civil society to work together to overcome two urgent challenges: Energy poverty and climate change.

 /  Published January 20, 2012 at 12:32 PM

Who’s Leaving Now? Understanding Your Agency’s Attrition

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There has been a big focus on improving federal recruitment and hiring during the past two years, particularly for some mission-critical occupations. But this is only half the battle. More than ever, federal agencies must also spend time, attention and resources to retain key talent.

Employee attrition in the federal government historically has been quite low, but ignoring the importance of employee turnover, particularly in an environment of budget cuts and hiring constraints, would be a mistake for government managers, workforce planners and human resources professionals. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 20, 2012 at 8:00 AM

Report Indicates E-Gov Continues Upswing

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Americans are more satisfied with services provided by the U.S. federal government than they were a year ago, according to a report released today by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).

ACSI results show that citizen satisfaction with federal government is up 2.3% to 66.9 (on a 0-100 scale) for 2011. The improvement, however, comes on the heels of a large decline for federal services, when citizen satisfaction tumbled nearly 5% to 65.4 between 2009 and 2010. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 19, 2012 at 12:01 AM

Resiliency: The Future of Global Cyber Power

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2011 could very well be called “Year of the Cyber Attack” given the thousands of reported and unreported hacking events. There is no doubt cyber threats facing governments and companies have certainly increased, but they’ve been met by host of powerful new ways to respond to them. Like a sickness to the body, industry and government have been working hard to build immunity with varying degrees of success.

Virtualization and cloud strategies now allow large and small companies to manage their data architecture with a flexibility that was impossible a few years ago. New collaboration software allows them to share documents more reliably on secure storage spaces. Modern data centers allow them to make their data continuously available to those who should have access to it, and invisible to those who don’t. The exponential growth of mobile devices drives an exponential growth in security risks. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 18, 2012 at 11:02 AM

IT Security Professional Or Warrior – Who Should Agencies Hire?

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What do well-balanced information security professionals look like, and why should the government be hiring them?

With the release of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Framework and much talk about the cyber human capital crisis, one question that keeps coming up is “what type of information security professional should agencies be hiring?” Keep reading →

 /  Published January 18, 2012 at 8:03 AM

Jeffrey Zients Tapped As Acting Director Of OMB

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The White House announced today that Jeffrey Zients will serve as the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Zients is currently deputy director for management and chief performance officer at OMB. He replaces Jack Lew who last week was named as chief of staff to the president after William Daley announced he will be leaving the position later this month. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 17, 2012 at 3:34 PM

VanRoekel Expands On Obama’s Agency Merger Plan; 2012 IT Plans

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Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel provided preliminary technology details that will support President Obama’s plans, announced earlier today, that call for merging the trade and commerce activities of six federal agencies and for making it easier for businesses to interact with federal agencies.

VanRoekel also elaborated on a series of new initiatives his office is taking to promote cross-governmental technology strategies in the coming year. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 13, 2012 at 3:30 PM

VanRoekel To Elaborate On 2012 Federal Mobility Plans In Live Video Event

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Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel is expected to elaborate on a new set of mobile government initiatives during a speech scheduled this Friday that will be broadcast live over the Internet by the trade group AFFIRM and by Breaking Gov.

The broadcast will appear on AFFIRM’s website and carried by Breaking Gov on this page Jan. 13, beginning at noon eastern standard time. (A recorded version of VanRoekel’s remarks are now available here.) Keep reading →

 /  Published January 12, 2012 at 11:51 AM
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