New white paper outlines near-term tactics to energize government agencies’ cybersecurity efforts and zero trust implementation.

Of the six agencies that had success, most had executive leadership buy-in and a communications plan prioritizing closures, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The Department of Homeland Security’s governmentwide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation cybersecurity task orders can serve as pilots to show the effects a centralized IT fund could have on bolstering agencies’ modernization efforts, officials working on the program said.

Four companies protested the contract for a variety of reasons that the GAO found invalid and denied.

Three of Amazon Web Services' cloud services received high baseline authorizations to work with federal clients last week.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has reintroduced a bill that would make sure the program — an Obama administration project — sticks around.