Government doesn’t take the dangers of metadata security seriously enough, members of industry said at an Institute for Critical Infrastructure event on Sept. 26. They cited the passage of SJ 34, which reduced regulations on Internet service providers’ use of metadata generated by their customers. […]

The latest iteration of President Donald Trump’s executive order on cybersecurity will probably require Federal agencies to use the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s framework, according to Ron Ross, a fellow at NIST. […]

Federal agencies are hemorrhaging billions of dollars every year due to fraud, waste, and improper payments, according to the Government Accountability Office. And the problem may be getting worse. MeriTalk spoke with a wide range of private sector experts about how the government can begin to reverse this trend. […]

Many Federal agencies struggle with whittling down their cybersecurity priorities. Meeting with individual organizations within an agency to gauge their priorities is a solution that can be transferred from the private sector to the Federal world, according to Rocky DeStefano, cybersecurity subject matter expert at Cloudera. […]

David Rubal of Oracle has worked in the technology industry for 35 years and does not see an end to the information technology partnerships between private companies and Federal agencies. “The next generation of IT is upon us,” he said. […]