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By Mark Rockwell Oct 19, 2020 It only takes one small breach to dent confidence in the nation’s election systems, according to a digital rights and technology expert. While the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other organizations have made great strides since 2016 to shore up local election infrastructure, “cybersecurity is an active process. Threats are constantly changing and evolving, so we need to keep making the case that election officials need to prioritize cybersecurity and not be complacent, said William Adler, senior technologist for elections and democracy at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Adler s comments came during an Oct. 16 conference call with reporters. He and other officials at the technology and digital rights advocacy group explained the variety of threats facing the upcoming elections, from voter suppression to misinformation about mail-in ballots and cybersecurity. Even an unsuccessful attack, if det ....
The General Services Administration worked with the Defense Department and vendors to reconfigure the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions Blanket Purchase Agreement that resulted in a dramatically lower ceiling value from the initial award, according to the agency s manager of the contract. GSA initially awarded DEOS, a 10-year contract to provide Microsoft s productivity suite Office 365 to DOD, to General Dynamics IT in 2019. The ceiling value of the award was $7.6 billion. The solicitation was revised amid protests and the contract was re-awarded to GDIT last month with a $4.4 billion ceiling. At the time of the the re-award, GSA declined comment, citing the post-award protest period. With that period passed, officials explained the revised price tag. ....
The General Services Administration continues to have problems with managing identity cards it issues to contractors to access its buildings and IT systems, according to a report from agency s Office of Inspector General. The report, issued on Nov. 4, covers an audit period between February, 2017 and August, 2019. It builds on an OIG 2016 audit that found the agency couldn t account for 15,000 of the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards it issued to its contractors. The report also said the agency didn t collect PIV cards from 445 contract employees who failed background checks. The more recent audit, said the report, showed GSA activated 39,090 contract employee PIV cards. The report said the OIG s review of data from the GSA Credential and Identity Management System (GCIMS) showed the agency could not account for 14,928, or 38%, of those cards. It said over 2,100 of those cards had been issued to contract employees who were removed fro ....
Although most agencies held steady or advanced their grades in the latest Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard, a new telecommunications transition metric was giving some of them headaches. On Dec. 22, the House Oversight Committee s Subcommittee on Government Operations released its 11th FITARA scorecard tallying how 24 large federal agencies have managed their IT over the last several months. The latest scorecard shows 16 of the two dozen agencies responding held steady overall grades, with the majority in the B and C range. The General Services Administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development notably dropped from A-plus and A respectively to B-plus and B. At the bottom of the list with C-minus grades were the Departments of Justice and State, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ....
By Mark Rockwell Dec 16, 2020 The Department of Homeland Security is moving ahead with tests of a commercial portable passive radio monitoring system that can find suspect cellular, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices at field locations. DHS Science and Technology directorate s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) awarded Bastille Networks a Phase 5 other transaction agreement to continue evaluating the company s Flyaway Kit that can sniff out potentially intrusive wireless devices. Bastille Networks said it has been selling the system to the Department of Defense and the federal intelligence community, but it received Federal Communications Commission approval to roll it out for civilian use in early 2020. ....