Delta and other air carriers show how not to do disaster recovery

Whether a power outage or an equipment malfunction was actually the cause of the outage, neither of those issues should have brought Delta’s systems down if the company had implemented the sort of IT redundancy that is common among major commercial enterprises.

VMware exec Tony Scott named new Federal CIO

The White House announced on February 5 that Tony Scott will become the new Chief Information Officer for the federal government, filling a position within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that has been vacant…

Changes coming for federal infosec managers

Information security managers in federal government agencies should expect to see new obligations and rules on security management practices in 2015.

Operational security lessons from the Target breach

In the wake of revelations from major retailer Target that hackers compromised its point-of-sale systems and stole credit card information on tens of millions of its customers during a two-to-three week period in the busy holiday…

Weaknesses in Census Bureau security symptomatic of poor information security program

A news story in today’s Washington Post calls attention to a recent audit report from the Government Accountability Office, released last month, that identified numerous weaknesses in security controls at the U.S. Census Bureau that pose…

Consider risks, business impact when making tradeoffs between security and productivity

Reported findings from a recently released survey of federal government executives on Cybersecurity in the Federal Government suggest that the increased emphasis on information security and corresponding protective measures put in place by government agencies are…

NASA implements policy to suspend C&A in favor of continuous monitoring

Taking the latest information security guidance from OMB to heart, NASA Deputy CIO for Information Security Jerry Davis issued a directive this week to all NASA ISSOs, system owners, authorizing officials, and IT manager and operators…