The Defense Department Cloud Computing Strategy, Homeland Security Iris Scans, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news:

The Department of Defense has released its Cloud Computing Strategy for transitioning to cloud services. More here.
The Department of Homeland Security is exploring biometrics such as iris and facial scans for uses from law enforcement to the Trusted Traveler Program. More here.
The Department of Homeland Security is implementing Blue Teams to analyze how agencies are meeting cybersecurity standards for the Trusted Internet Connections initiative. More here.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is using Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grants to test its Android applications against fuzzing attacks which use unexpected data to exploit programs. More here.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested three more in Canada, India, and the United States in a string of arrests for online financial information theft. More here.
Half of federal websites have already switched to IPv6 and the government is on track to complete the transition by September. More here.
The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored thousands of employee emails in a large surveillance campaign against disgruntled scientists. More here.
Department of Energy national laboratories and high-performance computing firms are working together in the “FastForward” research and development consortium to prototype extreme-scale supercomputers. More here.

This post by AlexOlesker was first published at CTOvision.com.