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Login.gov set to embrace facial recognition technology – How GSA and users can mitigate risks

Login.gov adopting facial recognition technology is a significant moment for this technology and could spur more adoption for others moving forward.

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Intelligence Community’s Wally Coggins: Automated data flows can rev cyber incident response

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Optiv’s Jeff Wichman: Have response processes, understand them, and test them.

Jeff Wichman, the practice director for enterprise incident management at Optiv, says the government is doing a “bang up job if effectively responding…

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IBM’s Ian Doyle: Federal response plans becoming equal to threat detection abilities

With the increasingly frequent and diverse nature of cyber attacks, organizations including federal agencies have put a lot of effort into advanced detecting…

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USDA’s Chad Sheridan: Interagency cooperation can yield better cloud application security

Getting to full benefit of cloud deployments means substantial reengineering of applications, as opposed to simply the lift-and-shift approach. But Chad Sheridan, the chief information officer of the Agriculture Department’s Risk Management Agency, says federal agencies aren’t quite there yet.

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