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The second term is when a President has traditionally concentrated on establishing his legacy. According to Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, it’s also the time when things tend to get tougher — and less friendly — for the White House resident.

Commentary: Federal Drive host Tom Temin says he sees no other choice than for OPM Director Katherine Archuleta to resign over the agency’s massive data breaches.

Commentary: Federal Drive host Tom Temin says he sees no other choice than for OPM Director Katherine Archuleta to resign over the agency’s massive data breaches.

Office of Personnel Management officials told House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lawmakers that they didn’t encrypt employee Social Security numbers because its systems couldn’t handle the new technologies. Lawmakers pointed to previous breaches of contractors as a highly-probable way hackers got into OPM’s system this time around.

As the Office of Personnel Management begins notifying feds of a second cyber breach, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey warns that more bad news may be on the horizon.

Advocates say the DATA Act is changing the way government works.

Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, Commandant of the Coast Guard, released a new cyber strategy for his command. He says that the weakest link an agency faces in protecting its IT systems is poor cyber hygiene by employees.

The Office of Management and Budget tells agencies they have 30 days to secure their networks. It appears to be reacting to the second major cyber breach at the Office of Personnel Management. That second breach puts military and intelligence security clearance holders at risk. You can read the details about the second breach at Federal News Radio dot com. Dave McClure is chief strategist at the Veris Group, and former associate administrator at the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at the General Services Administration. He’s writing about a few ground rules your agency should think about for better cybersecurity. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the “cut and paste” approach to collecting threat information and what that means for agencies.

Setting the record straight on what exactly Stan Kaczmarczyk said on June
2 about the cloud cybersecurity effort known as Federal Risk Authorization and
Management Program (FedRAMP). There have been several blogs and some articles that
either didn’t understand or misconstrued his comments, which has set some in the
federal community off in the wrong direction.

Commentary: Embarrassment agency suffered from undetected hacks multiplies with its botched response.