"As I look over the next year, these changes really give us opportunities to continue to innovate and challenge the norms and status quo," said Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat.

CIOs have showed they're willing to cut through bureaucratic red tape during the pandemic, if it means streamlining IT services, said the deputy Federal CIO.

As part of the Federal Data Strategy 2020 Action Plan, the White House recently published a curated data skills catalog and a data ethics framework for public comment.

Quantum computing, in particular, should be accounted for as agencies build zero-trust security architectures, said the deputy Federal CIO.

The spoofed website is designed for credential stealing and comes almost four months after the Small Business Administration took down eight fraudulent websites amid the pandemic.

Maria Roat said a new data science training program is launching later this month.