President Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert has drafted a new cybersecurity executive order, which will direct certain agencies to provide reports on their cybersecurity within a set number of days, according to retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who has served as the director of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the CIA. […]
Thirteen senators including Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday requesting that he address issues of Chinese behavior in cyberspace during his meeting today with Chinese President Xi Jinping. […]
President Donald Trump extended an Obama-era executive order Wednesday that established a national emergency used as a basis for freezing the assets of Russians tied to a hacking campaign aimed at disrupting the presidential election. […]
Reps. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., Will Hurd, R-Texas, and Gerry Connolly, D-Va., sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Tuesday requesting that OMB provide the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with an update on any cybersecurity guidance for Federal contractors. […]
Federal agencies need more help from IT groups within government and from the private sector to mitigate cybersecurity threats, according to Grant Schneider, acting Federal chief information security officer at the Office of Management and Budget. […]
President Donald Trump hired Republican strategist and digital aide Matt Lira to join the White House technology team as a special assistant to the president for innovation policy and initiatives. […]
The United States Digital Service said that accessibility standards, similar to cybersecurity standards, should be built into government websites from the beginning of the production process. […]
President Donald Trump’s 2018 Budget Blueprint, released Thursday, sets the stage for what potentially could be a radical shakeup of the Federal government and the way it manages technology and the technology workforce. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that authorized the reorganization of the executive branch of the Federal government. Within 180 days the heads of each agency are required to submit proposals for how their agencies should be restructured. […]
A cybersecurity firm found critical vulnerabilities in Confide, a messaging application used by White House staffers, which could have allowed malicious hackers access to their conversations. […]
President Trump has not replaced the federal chief information officer or chief information security officer, leaving gaps in key positions responsible for safeguarding and updating government systems. […]
President Donald Trump advocated for togetherness between the political parties while giving few details about budget and policy plans at his joint address to Congress. Agencies and their private sector partners will feel pressure from the White House to cut costs on government contracts. […]
Grace Koh was named the special assistant to the president for technology, telecom, and cybersecurity. […]
Reports that White House staffers have resorted to using an encrypted messaging app that erases messages as soon as they’re read has raised significant concerns that the practice may violate the Presidential Records Act. […]
In a letter sent to the leadership of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and fellow Democrats called for an investigation into the personal cybersecurity practices of President Donald Trump and his staff. […]
The White House has deleted all of the information that was housed on its open data portal, a move that is creating confusion about the digital transparency of the Trump administration. […]
The United States Digital Service introduced the “Procuremenati,” a team of acquisition specialists using the skills that are common in the private sector to help Federal agencies secure contracts, including methods such as paying for results rather than time spent on a project. […]
The latest draft of President Donald Trump’s long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity requires a plan for transitioning all Federal agencies to shared services for email, cloud computing, and cybersecurity, and directs senior officials to study the feasibility of transitioning agencies to one or more consolidated network architectures. […]
President Donald Trump and members of his national security team met with industry cybersecurity leaders today in what was billed as a “listening session” prior to the signing of an executive order that will introduce some fundamental changes to the government’s approach to national cybersecurity. […]
A draft cybersecurity executive order would mandate a review of the most critical U.S. cyber vulnerabilities, the principal cyber adversaries of the U.S., ways to incentivize cybersecurity measures in the private sector, and the capabilities of the DoD, DHS, and the NSA. […]
The White House Office of Management and Budget should drive structural reforms to make big data more accessible, according to Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., nominee for President Donald Trump’s director of OMB. […]
The Federal government needs to work on user-centric website design, according to technology industry executives. […]
Gerrit Lansing, Republican National Committee chief digital officer, will become the White House CDO. […]
Matt Cutts announced that he will replace Mikey Dickerson as the acting administrator of the United States Digital Service. […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced that Reed Cordish will be assistant to the president for intergovernmental and technology initiatives. […]
The House of Representatives passed a bill that would put energy efficiency standards on Federal data centers. […]
The Office of Management and Budget has decided to move the administrator of the United States Digital Service to directly report to the deputy director of management instead of reporting to Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott. […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a summary of its findings on data portability, including a suggestion to launch a review of publicly funded institutions that could be benefiting from data blocking. […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released its Exit Memo, which gave recommendations to the next administration on technology priorities and highlighted the achievements made during the Obama administration. […]
When dealing with cybersecurity policy, President-elect Donald Trump should realize that the Federal government is not a business, according to a report this month from the Center for Strategic and International Studies Cyber Policy Task Force. […]