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House Passes IDEA Act, a Bill to Improve Government’s Digital Services
The House passed by bipartisan voice vote the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act, or 21st Century IDEA, which would require agencies to improve online customer experience by making new websites more user-friendly. The bill ultimately aims to make citizens less reliant on paper processes when interacting with federal agencies. The bill would set minimum accessibility, searchability and security standards for all new government websites, and require agencies to adopt web analytics tools to constantly improve sites’ functionality.
Congress Passes Bill to Rename DHS Cyber Agency -- Will Now Be Called Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (nextgov)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/14/2018 - 12:17National Science Foundation Seeks Feedback on Major Cyber Research Priorities Update (nextgov)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 11/09/2018 - 13:43Alexa Will Now Talk to You About the Midterms (nextgov)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 11/02/2018 - 15:52Cyber ‘Intrusion Campaigns’ Increasingly Target Utilities (nextgov)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 11/01/2018 - 13:21OMB Announces Permanent US Digital Service Leadership (nextgov)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 11:16IT Alliance for Public Sector Is Being Dissolved Into Its Parent Group the Information Technology Industry Council (nextgov)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 10/17/2018 - 11:00Free ebook: The State of Cybersecurity (nextgov)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 10/16/2018 - 12:04Microsoft to Host the Government’s Classified Data
Microsoft is making moves to target a growing multibillion market: hosting, storing and running the US government’s most sensitive classified secrets and data. The company announced it will join rival Amazon as the only commercial cloud providers with the security capabilities to host secret classified data by the end of the first quarter of 2019. Microsoft’s announcement comes days before the Pentagon will accept bids on its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, which it will award to a single cloud service provider.