The summer is heating up and Tech Tonic is rolling out the coolest celebration of the season on July 18 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Morton’s The Steakhouse in D.C. to celebrate the government IT community, all the latest in AI, and some of the Feds’ staunchest cyber defenders. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Cisco’s Christina Hausman, who has more than 20 years of cybersecurity product expertise, to discuss how GenAI is changing the cybersecurity landscape and how AI-enabled security solutions not only protect agency networks and data, but also ensure the safe and responsible use of GenAI tools. […]
Microsoft President Brad Smith faced serious scrutiny from lawmakers during testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday afternoon over the company’s cybersecurity posture that left it vulnerable to last summer’s Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion. […]
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) projects are progressing in the Federal civilian and military spheres, though agencies must overcome bureaucratic and funding obstacles that remain, experts said at Dell Technologies World 2024. […]
The third annual Tech Yeah networking and economic development conference is bringing top Federal government IT leaders to the expanding regional tech hub of Morgantown, W.Va., on June 20. Tech Yeah, founded by Brandon Downey and Randy Cottle of Trilogy Innovations, aims to make the connection between how Mountain State companies are delivering essential technology services to meet the growing demands of Federal agencies all across the country. […]
The Department of Commerce announced today it has reached a preliminary agreement with Rocket Lab, the parent company of space power provider SolAero Technologies Corp., for up to $23.9 million in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to expand the production of compound semiconductors that power spacecrafts and satellites. […]
The White House has enlisted Microsoft and Google to provide free cybersecurity services to rural hospitals following recent cyberattacks targeting the nation’s healthcare system. […]
The annual AWS Summit is coming back to Washington, D.C., on June 26-27 and featuring some of the Federal government’s top cybersecurity and artificial intelligence policy-makers to shine a light on current policy initiatives and where they are heading next. […]
After more than two decades leading global teams in IT operations and cybersecurity in the Federal government, Gerry Caron is heading to the private sector. […]
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies advance, the applications of AI in Federal agencies are growing as well, expanding beyond pilots to real-world use cases that are heightening operational impact for a variety of Federal missions. […]
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rolled out a “Talent Pools” tool on the USAJOBS website in December, but an OPM official said on Wednesday that many Feds still don’t know about the new tool and urged agencies to begin using it. […]
Leaders of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection said on Wednesday that they are focused on harmonizing cybersecurity incident reporting regulations, especially when it comes to the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA). […]
Top officials with prominent providers of technology services to the Federal government welcomed the Biden administration’s April 30 national security memorandum (NSM) that aims to better protect U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, and said that success of that effort will depend on robust collaboration with the private sector and renewed efforts to modernize IT systems and protect them with tried-and-true cybersecurity strategies. […]
Sixty-eight percent of Federal operational technology (OT) administrators and managers reported experiencing an OT cyber-incident in the past year, but only half felt confident they could detect or mitigate a threat today, according to new research from MeriTalk and Claroty. […]
Making the Federal government workforce flourish is at the very top of the President Biden’s management agenda, and the wheels are in motion on Capitol Hill, at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and at Federal agencies to execute on the vision of restocking the government with top-notch talent. […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded a contract worth $789 million to Accenture Federal Services to deliver defensive cyberspace operations analytics across Navy and Marine Corps networks. […]
Tech Tonic – the happiest hour in Gov IT – is thrilled to confirm our blue-chip speaker lineup for the May 16 celebration of Women in Technology in Old Town Alexandria. […]
Federal government technology leaders are leaning hard into upgrading their data infrastructure to create value from fast-growing data flows that are proving too much to handle for their older systems, new research from MeriTalk and Hitachi Vantara Federal finds. […]
As the Federal government looks to upskill its technology developer workforce to take advantage of new AI capabilities, government officials on Wednesday explained a lot of that work comes down to simply “translating” technical skills they already know and applying them to AI. […]
ManTech Chief Executive Officer Matt Tait explained today how the company is working across a wide range of Federal government agencies on projects to help them better leverage AI technologies, enterprise IT platforms, and zero trust cybersecurity strategies, among others. […]
The ladders up the technology ranks have always been steeper for women, and Tech Tonic is gathering the Federal tech community on May 16 to celebrate all who persevere on that journey. […]
Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is important in every industry and every geography, but it is paramount to national defense and intelligence efforts. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 earlier this year, the first update since the original was released in 2014. The framework offers detailed guidance and recommendations on a wide range of cybersecurity topics, including the role of data backups in incident response and recovery plans. MeriTalk recently sat down with Travis Rosiek, public sector chief technology officer at Rubrik, to discuss the current threat landscape and the changes in the updated framework that help agencies and organizations plan for worst-case cyberattack scenarios. […]
New research from MeriTalk and RSA Conference reveals that while 80 percent of cybersecurity decision-makers say accelerating AI adoption is critical to their organization’s resilience against evolving threats, just 31 percent say their organization is using AI for cybersecurity today. […]
Tom Kennedy, vice president of Axonius Federal Systems, said on April 16 that the company expects to receive FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) authorization for its hosted service offering for the Federal government in the near term. […]
In the lead-up to the Adapt 2024 conference in Washington on April 16, we sat down with two senior Axonius Federal officials – Brian “Stretch” Meyer, Senior Director of Federal Engineering, and Kevin Jones, Senior Director of Federal Sales – to talk about how Federal agencies are grappling with zero trust security mandates, and how Axonius is helping them leapfrog some of the toughest obstacles to the goal of achieving better security. […]
Google Public Sector said today that its Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC Hosted) service has received authorizations to host some of the most sensitive missions for the Defense Department (DoD) and U.S. intelligence community agencies. […]
Brian Conrad, the former acting director of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), joined Zscaler today as its new head of global compliance, authorizing authority liaison. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) released findings late Tuesday following its independent review of the summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion that attributed the success of the China-based hack to “a cascade of security failures at Microsoft” and an “inadequate” security culture at the company. […]
One of the challenges that Federal agencies need to address when developing and deploying AI technologies is figuring out exactly what effects they are looking to achieve and then zeroing in on discrete solutions for those, a Treasury Department official said at the ServiceNow Federal Forum in National Harbor, Md., on March 21. […]