federal government

White House Wants Chief AI Officers to Keep Federal AI Use Responsible
White House Wants Chief AI Officers to Keep Federal AI Use Responsible
March 28, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

The White House unveiled a groundbreaking policy on Thursday (March 28) that requires federal agencies to identify and mitigate the potential risks of artificial intelligence (AI),...

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Paper Checks, COVID-19 And The Flaw With Analog Relief Payments
Paper Checks, COVID-19 And The Flaw With Analog Relief Payments
March 18, 2020  |  Coronavirus

This week after what has felt like a steady drumbeat of bad news, American workers who’ve seen their employment either greatly truncated or completely evaporate in...

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The White House Startup That’s Taking On Healthcare Payments
The White House Startup That’s Taking On Healthcare Payments
November 01, 2019  |  Healthcare

Though the launch of Healthcare.gov is likely a dim, distant memory for most people, at the time, it was front-page news — and not for...

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How The U.S. Government Sets The Benchmark For Digital ID Standards
How The U.S. Government Sets The Benchmark For Digital ID Standards
August 07, 2019  |  Authentication

Knowledge-based authentication is a popular choice among merchants and FIs for convenient digital ID verification – but with data breaches becoming a regular occurrence, reliance...

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Wanted: Cybersecurity Aces — Mastercard, Partners Have A Plan
Wanted: Cybersecurity Aces — Mastercard, Partners Have A Plan
April 10, 2019  |  Mastercard

Here’s a bit of heresy for 2019: Data’s not everything. Sure, data often gets called the oil of the digital age — and data, as a...

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What’s In Your ‘Citizen Wallet?’
What’s In Your ‘Citizen Wallet?’
March 22, 2019  |  Innovation

Government moves at its own pace, for better or worse or both, but that pace can provide opportunities for fraud and expensive errors – mistakes and...

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How PenFed Kept Financial Doors Open During Government Shutdowns
How PenFed Kept Financial Doors Open During Government Shutdowns
March 07, 2019  |  Credit Unions

During the 35-day U.S. government shutdown, federal credit unions had thousands of members without paychecks, with no end in sight. Ricardo Chamorro, EVP at D.C....

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Federal Cybersecurity Professionals Play Catch-Up Weeks After Gov’t Shutdown
Federal Cybersecurity Professionals Play Catch-Up Weeks After Gov’t Shutdown
February 11, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Federal cybersecurity workers tasked with protecting the federal government from hackers have been scrambling to catch up two weeks after the longest government shutdown in...

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Gov’t Shutdown May Have Cost The US $6B
Gov’t Shutdown May Have Cost The US $6B
January 28, 2019  |  Economy

The partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government – which lasted 35 days, the longest in modern history – cost the U.S. economy $6 billion,...

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