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Howard Whyte, the FDIC chief information officer, said a third-party assessment set the cyber roadmap for the future.
In today's Federal Newscast, an audit by NASA's Office of Inspector General says the agency's Office of the Chief Information Officer may be unable to manage it's IT assets.
Howard Whyte, FDIC’s chief information security officer (CISO), will serve as acting CIO starting Oct. 1.
Trade groups representing banks and credit unions say they haven’t had enough time to study the DoD’s rules to protect servicemembers from predatory loans.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is taking a range of steps to strengthen its cybersecurity posture, including an end-to-assessment and limiting employees' ability to copy information to removable hardware.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin Gruenberg defended his CIO Larry Gross and his initiatives to improve the agency's cybersecurity posture. But members of a congressional committee warned some of those plans might do more harm than good.
In today's Top Federal headlines, a new bill gives agencies more options to hire new talent, and another major IT contract is stalled by protests.
A technology oversight committee wants the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to be more transparent when it comes to sharing information on recent cybersecurity incidents. At the same time, the FDIC's inspector general is calling on the agency to strengthen its cyber posture.
Lawmakers and agency heads are looking at ways the General Services Administration can better manage and maintain federal properties and offices.
Members of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee want to know whether there's more to the story of the FDIC's recent cyber incidents and the reporting done by the agency's CIO Larry Gross.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's chief information officer says the agency is in the process of implementing a variety of safeguards to protect data, after reporting five additional cyber breaches at the hands of unknowing former employees.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation revealed five instances in which outgoing employees inadvertently downloaded information onto their personal storage devices. FDIC officials said the agency is conducting a 60-day review that includes additional employee training and the application of encryption software to help prevent future breaches.
Officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation say the agency's data breach was under control before data fell into the wrong hands, but the case serves as an important lesson that not all insider threats are malicious.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, says a former FDIC employee breached the information of 44,000 FDIC customers more than a month ago.