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Catch up on some reading this weekend. Here are a few interesting items from MeriTalk.

New roles and transformation progress at VA….Eating crow….IBM is watching….Gone fishing.

Reports say 100,000 new malware samples are discovered every day. And, according to a recent survey, 62 percent of DoD IT pros identified foreign governments as one of the greatest source of IT threats. Bloomberg reports the U.S. military, “is seeking $34.7 billion through 2021 to boost cybersecurity capabilities.”

How can agencies identify – and mitigate – threat actors, whether they come from nation states or within the U.S.?

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MeriTalk caught up with Mark Schwartz, the chief information officer at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security, during the 2016 Akamai Government Forum in Washington, D.C.

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Catch up on some reading this weekend. Here are a few interesting items from MeriTalk.

Federal CIO Tony Scott will again lay out his vision for the $3.1 billion IT modernization fund on July 14 at the Palo Alto Networks Federal Forum. MeriTalk has launched the #GreatScott campaign—an online petition to keep Scott in office through the transition of administrations. Scott’s presence and leadership may be the key to making the fund a reality….CIA’s investments could pay for that modernization campaign….At VA, confusion about what’s a medical device and what’s IT.

Cloud isn’t a new concept for government.  Approximately 8.5 percent – or roughly $7 billion – of the government’s IT spending goes to provisioned services like cloud[1] today. But, even greater opportunity for savings is ahead, as agencies focus hard on legacy migration. The costs associated with maintaining outdated infrastructure have reached the impossible point. OMB’s […] […]