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The 8th annual IT Security Automation Conference

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Originally posted on Federal News Radio

October is National Cyber security month and will be kicked off in Baltimore with a three day conference with a focus on automating security.

The concept of security and the federal government is inevitably wrapped in guidance from National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST.

On October 3, 2012, NIST is working with a wide range of members of the security community to produce the 8th Annual IT Security Automation Conference.

Listen to the interview with Dave Waltermire, security automation architect, in NIST's Computer Security Division.

In the interview, Waltermire gives an overview of the conference, talks about security automation, the history of SCAP, competing standards, the challenges of generating standards, and the role the federal government in this process.

The conference covers continuous monitoring, software assurance, incident handling, analytics, as well as trusted computing.

Listen to the interview with Dave Waltermire.

GSA reforms are improving efficiency, customer service

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Originally posted by Dan Tangherlini on Federal Times

More than 60 years ago, the General Services Administration was founded in the wake of World War II to deliver consistent and responsive services to federal agencies, services which would also ensure value to taxpayers. Today, everyone at GSA continues to take enormous pride in that mission and since April of this year, we have been engaged in an effort to refocus this agency on our core objective of providing effective and efficient service for the entire federal government.

At a time when every agency is coping with shrinking budgets and growing expectations, we know that the services GSA provides have never been more important. For the past five months, GSA has conducted a top-to-bottom review to examine how we operate and what reforms could be implemented to help the entire federal government give the American people the service they deserve.

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The Top 5 Government Services Companies of 2012

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Originally posted by Mark Micheli on GovExec

The government services industry is the second fastest growing industry in America, according to Inc. Magazine's "Inc. 5000." Every year since 2007, Inc. has released the "Inc. 5000," a list of the fastest growing privately held companies in America. Measuring aggregate growth from 2008 - 2011, the government services industry has grown by 145 percent, second only to growth in private media.

Below is a look at Inc.'s five fastest growing government services companies:

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Veteran Tradeshow Industry Journalist Takes the Helm at EXPO Magazine

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EXPO, the fastest-moving and most comprehensive brand covering the world of tradeshows and expositions, has named Michael Hart as executive editor, effective Monday, September 10.

Hart is a tradeshow-industry veteran, having served as editor-in-chief of Tradeshow Week for eight years. During his tenure at Tradeshow Week, Hart led the build out of an e-media business for that brand and played a key role in the creation and expansion of a variety of awards and recognition initiatives, including the TSW Fastest 50.

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GSA outlines progress cracking down on bonuses, pricey conferences

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Originally posted by Charles S. Clark on GovExec

The test of whether a federal performance bonus is merited is "whether I can explain it at a Senate hearing," acting General Services Administration chief Dan Tangherlini told a Senate panel Wednesday. Bonuses should be given only for "special, exemplary, extremely justifiable acts," he added, and "the quality of our work should not be dependent on a bonus award but on commitment" to mission.

Tangherlini appeared with GSA Inspector General Brian Miller before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to respond to senators' reviews of lengthy committee questionnaires the agency had completed as part of the ongoing fallout from the April 2012 scandal over lavish spending on entertainment at a GSA training conference in Las Vegas.

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