Jose Rascon

MeriTalk

Jose Rascon is a MeriTalk Staff Reporter covering the intersection of government and technology.
NASA

NASA is looking to consolidate contracts across three different cloud service providers into a single agency-wide contract vehicle to meet the agency’s growing need for cloud services provided by small business resellers.

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NSF

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and five other Federal government agencies have announcedcreation of a prototype version of an integrated data and knowledge infrastructure program that they say will form the basis of a far-reaching “open knowledge network.”

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ODNI
CISA
DHS
CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on March 21 released stakeholder-driven updates to the Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs) for critical infrastructure entities and businesses that the agency issued last year.

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Good communication plays an outsized role in how highly federated government agencies – those with numerous component parts – will be able to implement different approaches to zero trust security rather than pursue one-size-fits-all policies, Federal government officials said today at ATARC’s Zero Trust Summit event in Washington.

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While the widespread advent of quantum computing – and the concerns that it poses especially to current day cryptography and the cybersecurity technologies that rely upon it – may still be years away, a top Federal cybersecurity expert is mapping out three steps that organizations should be taking now to prepare.

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Jose Rascon
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