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The FBI and ODNI are leading the initiative to put together the pieces of a coherent national policy on insider threats. “No agency is starting from scratch.”

Agencies and vendors need common definitions, performance metrics and security controls, say panelists at the FOSE 2012 conference.

Over the past decade, Michigan's Department of Information Technology has cut costs by consolidating resources and standardizing its approach to better meet the needs of the state's agencies.

State CIOs who have finished e-mail consolidation projects suggest starting small, communicating widely and considering a tiered services approach.

Budget-strapped agencies are looking for savings in e-mail consolidation, whether in a public, private or hybrid cloud. Here's how four organizations did it.

The emergence of cloud brokers can aid government agencies in purchasing cloud services and facilitate cross-platform integration and communication, industry experts say.

An administration official says that legislation is essential to effective protections in the proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.

Agencies will need to deploy cloud and service-oriented architectures together to achieve integrated services and greater information exchange across agencies and organizations, government and industry experts say.

Sen. John McCain's recent rant about DHS could make even an airline passenger feel sorry for the department.

FOSE offers five conferences in one: program slices on cloud computing, cybersecurity, mobile computing, defense innovation and records management.