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WEBThe Environmental Protection Agency is a well-oiled hybrid work machine standing up multiple digitization centers and transitioning to a cloud-based telephony system while training employees to adapt to the changes. FedTech explores technology issues and successes that federal IT leaders and managers face when they’re evaluating and ...
ATO to cATO Cybersecurity Transition in The Federal Government
WEBA key benefit of a cATO is continuous monitoring of security system controls within IT systems. To achieve a cATO, officials will need to show that they have real-time or near-real-time cybersecurity countermeasures they can deploy, as well as a secure software supply chain. “Within the Army, continuous monitoring using a cATO helps us make ...
What is CSfC: How CSfC Components Can Boost Network Security …
WEBThe CSfC program, which got off the ground in 2016, certifies commercial network solutions that agencies can use to create secure, encrypted networks. The program is designed to enable commercial products for use in layered solutions protecting classified National Security Systems (NSS) data. The goal, the NSA says, is to give agencies “the ...
Computing Power of Apollo 11 & The Tech Behind It
WEBFifty years ago this week, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed on the surface of the moon at the culmination of the Apollo 11 mission, and human beings first set foot on the planet’s only natural satellite. The technological feat that enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to bounce around the Sea of Tranquility was the ...
Review: Dell’s OptiPlex 7050 Was Designed with Feds in Mind
WEBIt’s been two years since the last revamp. Dell clearly designed the new OptiPlex 7050 series to capitalize on its past successes. Even though the desktop has a compact form factor — measuring 11.5 inches tall in its mini-tower configuration — it’s packed with one of the fastest Intel quad-core processors: an i7 running at 3.6 gigahertz.
Review: The Kensington SD5700T Thunderbolt 4 Is Ideal for Hybrid …
WEBThe Thunderbolt 4 standard supports up to 40Gbps of bidirectional bandwidth, so it’s ideal for compute-intensive tasks such as PC-to-PC data transfers or large file backups. It carries both video and sound, and supports up to 4K display resolution at 60 hertz — mirroring the DisplayPort standard. Thunderbolt technology is also able to ...
How IBM 7094 Gave NASA Computing Superiority in the 1960s
WEBThe IBM 7094 was the successor to the IBM 7090 mainframe. “Compatible with the IBM 7090, the advanced solid-state IBM 7094 offered substantial increases in internal operating speeds and functional capacities to match growing scientific workloads in the 1960s,” IBM notes. “The powerful IBM 7094 had 1.4 to 2.4 times the internal processing ...
Zero-Trust Stands as a Secure Foundation for IoMT
WEBProactive Medical Device Security Starts with Zero Trust. “Each vulnerable connected device offers a different pathway, or potential pathway, for malicious actors to either access patient data or disrupt healthcare operations,” Pearson says. The sheer scale of IoMT device use adds additional layers of complexity: “A typical 500-bed ...
What is NSFNET: How Tech Sparked Scientific Research - FedTech
WEBThe National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET), developed to help U.S. research scientists collaborate, was a crucial link between ARPANET and the commercial networks that served as the early public internet’s foundation. Along the way, NSFNET served as a demonstration for the technical underpinnings of modern networks — routers and ...
Breaking Down the NIST Risk Management Framework - FedTech …
WEBSince 2017, federal agencies have been mandated to follow the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework to manage cybersecurity risk. However, for years before that, feds needed to follow another NIST publication to do similar activities: the Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations. …