What to Keep in Mind When Evolving Your Security Philosophy to Zero Trust
Zero trust is not just a simple security solution, but a complex philosophy for improving cyber defenses. Are you communicating those changes to employees?
Posts Tagged: CBP
The Cherry on Top: AI to Augment Human Intelligence
Even working with analytics and intelligent machines, human logic will always win the day when it comes to the final call.
Agencies Eye the Benefits of Cloud Beyond Cost Savings
Conversations around cloud computing have shifted from being purely cost-driven to now focusing on how the cloud and managed services help enable agencies’ missions.
Meet the Govie Reforming Import and Export Processes
Check out how this govie is making the import and export business more efficient.
CBP Sets New Award Date for $1B Integrated Fixed Towers Contract
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has delayed an award of a contract worth at least $1 billion to deploy fixed communication towers along the U.S. border with Mexico by at least three months. CBP originally planned to award the Integrated Fixed Towers contract during the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 but now plans toRead… Read more »
Updated NIST Computer Security Guidance, NASA Cybersecurity, and More
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Customs and Border Protection plans to purchase an outside computer program to track aircraft inventories despite Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s call to use existing capabilities. More here. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published its updated guide to handling computer security incidents. MoreRead… Read more »
Improving CBP’s Acquisition Workforce, Pt. 3: Forming the IPT
For those unfamiliar with the term, Integrated Product Teams, commonly called IPT’s, are cross-functional working groups that design a specific product, document, or process. The difference between an IPT and a regular working group is the authority vested in an IPT by its sponsors (usually senior leadership), and that its mission, vision, and goals areRead… Read more »
Improving CBP’s Acquisition Workforce, Pt. 2: CBP’s Acquisition Structure
CBP’s Secure Border Initiative (SBI) was officially cancelled in January of 2011, but had already been re-organized at the beginning of the fiscal year as the Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition (OTIA). As part of the transformation, our boss became the Component Acquisition Executive, or CAE, for all of Customs and Border Protection. WhatRead… Read more »
Improving CBP’s Acquisition Workforce, Pt. 1
I was hired into CBP’s SBI program office in July of 2010, without any real idea of what “acquisition” meant or how it was practiced. My supervisor told me that I was the “acquisition workforce development officer,” a title that I later discovered existed only in his head. I do have to make a disclaimer:Read… Read more »
Thwarting Illegal Wildlife Import–A Team Effort
Congratulations to FWS, ICE and CBP for thwarting the illegal import of wildlife. Check out this article! This is a great example of our Federal government working together across government agency boundaries to achieve a commmon mission–and what an important mission it is. Stopping the illegal import of wildlife species is critical in maintaining aRead… Read more »