Finding the right balance between encouraging innovation within development teams and securing the software supply chain remains a challenge for federal agencies, according to the acting chief information officer of the IRS.

Details of Medicare beneficiaries that were exposed during the incident included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, social security numbers, and Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers.

The General Services Administration announced Tuesday that it is accepting advisory board member nominations for the FedRAMP cybersecurity authorization program, marking the first step in implementing recent legislation that reformed the program.

The responsibilities of the House Oversight Committee’s Government Operations subcommittee will now be undertaken by two separate subcommittees, according to a Hill staffer familiar with the matter.

The HHS has launched a pilot program to tackle Medicare fraud using tree-based artificial intelligence models and deep learning approaches, HHS Chief Information Officer Karl Mathias said Wednesday.

US House lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation on Wednesday to create a civilian organization tasked with supporting the digital and cyber needs of federal agencies.

According to the report, the Interior Department’s password complexity requirements were outdated and ineffective. It also failed to disable inactive accounts in a timely manner or to enforce password age limits.

The Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act earlier this month progressed through the Senate after companion legislation passed the House in July. It is co-sponsored by Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.

The White House’s aggressive deadlines for agencies to develop post-quantum cryptography strategies make the U.S. the global leader on protection, but the transition will take at least a decade, experts say.

Federal agencies in charge of intelligence and cybersecurity will be required by the NDAA bill to study how to build a new cyber information collaboration environment to enable government and industry to better mitigate malicious cyber activity.