Communication about the perils of taking inappropriate risk – and how to accept or not accept IT risk in government – is seriously lacking these days. There is clearly a link missing in the chain that connects government business managers with matters of importance such as IT risk.
Take for instance, the Utah data breach and all of the “lessons learned” that have been discussed since following a data breach that exposed the health data of 500,000 people and social security numbers of 280,000 Utah Medicaid recipients. The incident, which took place earlier this year, led the executive director of Utah’s Department of Technology Services to resign in May. Keep reading →
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The scrutiny over what federal employees spend to attend work-related conferences has continued to escalate after a recent salvo of 
Sequestration would force the Defense Department and other federal agencies to lay off workers long before the defense industry had to, said a report released today by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
There has been a lot of activity from the Obama Administration this week in the name of innovation and best practices.
Three months after the White House’s release of the Administration’s Digital Government Strategy, Federal Chief Information Officer Steve VanRoekel used the occasion to reiterate the need for government to rethink its approach to providing information and services to the public and declared “agencies are making great strides” toward a vision of digitally-delivered services.
In a move suggesting how quickly cloud computing is becoming part of the government IT mainstream, the 
E-mail, the World Wide Web, social media, and the cloud have led to outdated privacy laws that have left federal officials perplexed about how to collect and use information about citizens, even those suspected of crimes.