Moving away from the traditional sign-up model and establishing one-stop preregistration systems is one way to resolve the painful vaccine scheduling process.
By Brent Hansen
Feb 22, 2021
Agencies likely have the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program on their minds as a result of the Office of Management and Budget’s November memo requiring they share cyber risk data to a new federal dashboard. Specifically, the memo notes, agencies are required to “report the status of their information security programs to OMB,” with inspectors general conducting “annual independent assessments of those programs.”
What should an agency’s “information security program” include? With agencies’ increased emphasis on big data throughout their operations, if the program does not include a strategy for big data and cloud security, it is incomplete.
Over the last year, cyber criminals tried to acquire information related to the virus and possible vaccines or extort the health care industry, according to a new report said.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is using simulation technology that collects publicly available data from multiple sources and overlays it on a map so that firefighters can predict a blaze’s behavior in real time.