Mike Hogan

Marketing Specialist for Government Sales Specialists

[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The VA is kicking off it's API-first platform, calling for all VA digital services to be powered by a single set of APIs with third-party access for applying additional products and applications.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The GSA is seeking to add anti-drone countermeasures in order to prepare and protect law enforcement, agencies, and first responders, despite the plethora of relevant legal considerations.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

For nine months the VA ceased to publish their online quarterly reports that detail information security breaches affecting veterans, as the quality of the reports were found to be deteriorating alongside the fall of the Obama administration.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The coast guard is seeking to deploy low-cost, commercial sensors in the remote areas of the pacific to promote "effective offshore awareness capability".
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The Secure Elections Act, a compromise bill aimed at improving election security before the midterms, was postponed by the senate at the urging of the White House.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

Attackers are leveraging cloud-specific traits to hide their activity as they breach and persist in target networks, particularly in regards to AWS attack sophistication.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

First responders are leveraging Smart911 software to automatically pinpoint a caller's exact location and easily access other pertinent information as it makes its debut in Butler County, Ohio.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

As digital forensics on mobile devices become an increasingly essential part of the FBI's daily crime-fighting mission, the necessary means to crack these devices are constantly evolving.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

Legislation has the potential to correct many of the initial shortcomings of the CDM Program, tailoring it to provide “consistent government-wide set of ISCM tools to identify and mitigate the impact of emerging cyber threats."
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The ban on Kaspersky anti-virus software has gone relatively unnoticed despite intelligence community concerns that the Russian company's software could be used as a Kremlin spying tool.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and State have set up similar task forces or programs to counter "malign foreign influence operations" online and offline, and to signal a more active role for federal agencies.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The Trump Administration has provided encouragement by way of AI research priorities as agencies increasingly look at machine learning to better understand data and make back-office tasks more efficient.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

Trojans, file downloaders, stolen credentials, and BEC scams prove a major threat to the housing sector, highlighting real estate as a rich target for cybercrime.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

A top aide to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis worked with Mattis and others to steer the Pentagon's $10B cloud contract to favor Amazon Web Services.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The Pentagon is prohibiting the use of GPS Services in all operational areas, applying to the smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, smart watches, and all other applications utilizing geolocation features, effective immediately.
https://t.co/WI2pfElmK6

[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The Senate unanimously passed the NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act, a bill that provides small businesses with a thorough set of guidance and resources to help bolster their cyber-defenses and protect their data using the latest federal standards.
https://t.co/P661L9XyO0

[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

The State CDO Network has published a set of recommendations for continuing development in response to the federal government's recent draft on data strategy.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

After Northrop Grumman's errors costed NASA 1.5 years and $600 million in taxpayer dollars, many politicians are revisiting the ideal that in times of major project error, it should be the contractor instead of the agency that foots the bill for failure.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

A virtual-environment honeypot named HADES (High-Fidelity Adaptive Deception & Emulation System) was designed to expose hackers by providing a deception environment and continue a campaign to tease out the intelligence and signatures of an ongoing attack.
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[Mike Hogan @GSS_Mike]

Beyond fake news, it is essential to watch out for 'deep fakes'- fake images or videos that combine and superimpose different audio and visual sources to create an entirely new fake video able to fool experts.
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