From: Nextgov
Federal agencies might be struggling to keep up with several concurrent mandates to make public, and to standardize the format of, their data.
Earlier this month, a group of lawmakers announced efforts to make all federal data sets open to the public, under forthcoming legislation known as the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary Government Data Act, or the OPEN Government DATA Act.
From: MeriTalk
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My Gaithersburg, Md., listening post has picked up strong signals that there’s a new mandatory cybersecurity standard in town. The Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, developed in 2014 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in close cooperation with industry, has always been a voluntary guide for organizations of all types and sizes to apply common best practices in risk management.
From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500 AM
By Tom Temin | @tteminWFED
Stung by breaches and facing a rasher of policy mandates, federal agencies are using network upgrades as opportunities to improve cybersecurity. Lee Kelly, IT specialist and special assistant to the Environmental Protection Agency’s senior information security officer, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how the internet of things and big data are affecting EPA’s network security.
From: FCW
By Mark Rockwell
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is set to release an overhauled systems security engineering document it hopes will change the way software and computer designers think about cybersecurity.
An updated draft of NIST’s 800-160 document will be released for public comment on May 4. According to its lead author, Dr. Ron Ross, the new 800-160 will kick off a difficult discussion over not only how federal agencies approach cybersecurity, but also how U.S. business and general population should think about it — not just as an add-on, but as an foundational component of any technology that touches the Internet.
