If you follow instructions from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, you can rest assured that sensitive data you delete from obsolete computer hard drives and optical disks will not be recovered.
During a five-month review in mid-2005, IG investigators at the Environmental Protection Agency found the Integrated Contract Management System was operating without up-to-date certification, accreditation and contingency plans.
ManTech International Corp. won a five-year, $3.8 million contract from the Army to provide technical and analytical support to felony criminal investigations related to intrusions of Army networks.
The Homeland Security Department's internal computer network generated 6.5 million security alerts that may be linked to employees accessing pornographic words or materials, according to the DHS inspector general.
The Homeland Security Department's forlorn IT security came in for another pasting this month from the department's inspector general and from Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
Avaya Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. will combine their IP telephony and IP networking and security expertise to provide a unified communications solution, company officials said.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified OpenSSL, an open-source library of encryption algorithms, as meeting Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Level 1 standards, according to the Open Source Software Institute.
The General Services Administration's electronic-bidding portal has been down since Jan. 11 due to a security flaw that allowed users of the system to change others' bids once they were logged onto the site.
Washington Technology kicks off its 20th anniversary year not with a look back, but with a look forward. We've distilled the sea of policy issues, technology trends and emerging markets to the 20 that are ? or should be ? top of mind for systems integrators, IT services companies and resellers in the government market.
The General Services Administration is seeking information to help agencies meet identity credentialing standards under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 Federal Information Processing Standard 201.
A federal judge has set aside the Government Printing Office's decision to eliminate On Track Innovations Ltd. from competing to provide radio-frequency identification tags for U.S. passport.
A newly released survey of CIOs confirmed that Web issues and security, followed by wireless technologies, have held on to their positions as the leading technologies that concern federal IT professionals.
