updated Sat. August 24, 2024
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FEDweek
February 23, 2018
DHS is in only partial compliance Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12, which requires the use of a standard, secure, and reliable form of identification for federal employees and contractors across government, an IG report has found. While DHS “has an effective process for issuing personalÃâà...
CNET
February 23, 2018
Homeland Security's top cybersecurity official, Jeanette Manfra, sat down with CNET to talk about the balancing act of helping secure elections without overstepping the federal government's authority. She serves as .... We have no kind of oversight or directive authority over any of those functions. Some ofÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
February 23, 2018
In December 2017, the Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security over an order labeling ... for Kaspersky than DHS's order because the NDAA bars the use of all Kaspersky products in all federal information systems, while the DHS directiveÃâà...
FCW.com
February 20, 2018
For the past decade, DHS has struggled put in place management and security strategies around Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 and the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards that are used by employees and contractors to both access physically secure locations and login to computerÃâà...
HSToday
February 19, 2018
DHS needs to make improvements to its HSPD-12 program, the government-wide system that gives employees and contractors access to facilities and systems ... The Homeland Security Program Directive 12 was introduced in 2004 to ensure that a secure and reliable form of identification was used to gainÃâà...
Nextgov
February 14, 2018
The new effort comes as the Homeland Security Department is becoming increasingly aggressive about foreign cyber threats. The department issued a binding operational directive in September ordering all agencies to remove the Russian antivirus Kaspersky from their networks citing fears the softwareÃâà...
Nextgov
February 13, 2018
“DHS continues to work with … agencies to resolve identified challenges impacting the implementation timeliness and [to] address concerns related to ... The October Homeland Security directive also required agencies to implement a separate email protection tool called STARTTLS, which is a form of TLS,Ãâà...
The Hill
February 7, 2018
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pushing back against a motion filed by Russia-based Kaspersky Lab that seeks to overturn the ... “Rescinding the [binding operational directive] would leave the congressional ban in place, which means federal agencies still would be required to remove andÃâà...
Politico
February 6, 2018
Their job is “to identify individuals who present a threat to national security, border security, homeland security or public safety,” according to the statement ... Seth Stodder, a former DHS assistant secretary for border, immigration and trade policy from 2016 to 2017, said the vetting center idea surfaced in theÃâà...
