By embracing cloud, biometrics and mobility, agencies can deliver the types of services citizens have come to expect from the private sector.
Using Gartner's cloud security hype cycle, agencies can determine when technologies are mature and stable enough for government use.
The Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate is funding research to secure the entire app development lifecycle.
Citing the potential that the Russian company's products could be used by "malicious cyber actors" to gain access to federal IT systems, the Department of Homeland Security directed agencies to stop using software.
Intelligence officials encouraged IT managers to patch software and retire products at the end of their lifecycles.
Working groups are crafting guidance for mitigating security vulnerabilities in internet-of-things devices and applications.
Customs and Border Protection aims to use facial recognition tech at the top 20 U.S. airports by February 2018, according to a senior agency official.
DARPA wants to take the onus for detecting phishing schemes off the employee by using bots to detect and identify the sources of social engineering campaigns.
The DHS Science and Technology Directorate urges entrepreneurs to incorporate blockchain in homeland security solutions.
While installing layered defenses and purchasing more secure technology would help protect voting machines, less reliance on technology may be the best way to secure the electoral process.
The state could accelerate the move to systems that provide a paper trail for election audits.
The Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission is pushing for a federal service that facilitates access to data for evidence building and ensures privacy and transparency in how that data is used.
Modern identity management requires a layered approach that supports physical and digital identities and allows enables bring-your-own-identity policies.
Researchers have developed a deep learning framework that can make matches to faces even when they're obscured.