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FITARA Scorecards Spur Agencies to Faster, More Efficient IT Modernization

FedTech Magazine

FITARA’s semiannual assessment ranks agencies on how well they meet the requirements outlined in the law, including data center optimization, enhancing CIO authority, cybersecurity and more. To see the impact of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, all you need to do is look at the numbers — and the letters.

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GSA is cooking up a new, comprehensive procurement data source

Federal News Network

The government both creates and runs on data. Given that agencies spend hundreds of billions of dollars on goods and services the more procurement data it has, the better it can understand trends and ‘manage’ procurement. That’s the idea behind a data source effort known as Hi-Def. Tom Temin: Right.

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Use a Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment for an Efficient Approach to Security

FedTech Magazine

When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s no longer enough to rely solely on security tools and software to protect a federal agency’s proprietary data and prevent breaches. Instead, agencies must think holistically about cybersecurity strategy to have a 360-degree view of vulnerabilities and insight into how to address them.

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Bridging the Civilian-Defense Compliance Divide

FedTech Magazine

Civilian agencies teaming up with defense agencies on IT modernization efforts and sharing systems to improve efficiency are experiencing compliance challenges due to the latter’s higher-level security framework. As a result, civilian agencies may struggle to support the necessary security protocols and data encryption.

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Data tracking, AI and modernization: How SSA has ditched its paper-based past

FedScoop

Now armed with a robust artificial intelligence use case inventory and a splashy new data-tracking tool , SSA’s technology leaders feel especially bullish about where they stand in their digital journey. For a “data rich” agency like SSA, Brown said it made sense to O’Malley to give website users the ability to “see that granular data.”

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How to Choose the Right Backup When Your Agency Functions in Multiple Environments

FedTech Magazine

Cloud technology makes IT resources more accessible and processes more efficient, but it raises new challenges, especially for backup and recovery. Federal agencies have made cloud a priority in their efforts to drive modernization. In fact, that is often not the case.

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Assess Identity Management Maturity to Protect Against Credential Theft

FedTech Magazine

Captured credentials remain the most efficient and undetected technique for compromising an enterprise, and well-designed identity and access management (IAM) programs are a critical barrier against these threats.