Author Archive
Sean D. Carberry
Sean Carberry is a former FCW staff writer who focused on defense, cybersecurity and intelligence.
Cybersecurity
On the hunt for a CAC replacement
Defense officials are making headway on identity management tools that can eventually replace the Common Access Card.
- By Sean D. Carberry
Cybersecurity
Info sharing takes a hit in nuclear breach notification
Alerts of a recent spear-phishing attack may have damaged information sharing between government and critical infrastructure owners, experts say.
- By Sean D. Carberry
Cybersecurity
DHS: 21 states' voting systems probed by Russian hackers
In some cases the hackers got inside the systems, but their tampering had no connection to vote counts, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.
- By Sean D. Carberry
Infrastructure
DISA signs on for milCloud 2.0
The nearly $500 million contract with CSRA calls for the government-run cloud to be operated by the contractor in DOD data center space.
- By Sean D. Carberry
Infrastructure
The bottleneck in DOD’s move to the cloud
Providing cloud access points as a service might speed data center consolidation, acting CIO John Zangardi suggests.
- By Sean D. Carberry
Cybersecurity
Air Force widens military bug bounty program
For its bug bounty program, the Air Force is opening some of its public websites to vetted security specialists from some from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
- By Sean D. Carberry
Cybersecurity
Vault 7 lessons on insider threats
The WikiLeaks release of alleged CIA hacking program data shows why insider threats are still the biggest cybersecurity danger to the government and the private sector.
- By Sean D. Carberry
Infrastructure
What Trump means for government tech
As a man famously reluctant to use computers, President Donald Trump must lead a government that is ever more reliant on technology for service delivery and national security.
- By Mark Rockwell and Sean D. Carberry
Cybersecurity
Army fires up bug bounty program
Following the Pentagon’s successful bug bounty program, the Army has announced its own "Hack the Army" program to tighten up security on its public-facing websites.
- By Sean D. Carberry
Cybersecurity
‘Clunky,’ low-tech voting system still vulnerable to hacks
A new report outlines a range of vulnerabilities, infiltration points and tactics that could be used to undermine credibility in an election or even manipulate the results.
- By Sean D. Carberry