I was attending the CIO Dialog this week, and while sitting there listening to one speaker, a train of thought started, and it was initiated by his statement that we (by that he meant other CIO's in ...

WASHINGTON – Investigators can now probe Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites as a part of background checks for security clearances -- something that lawmakers said Friday was a classic ...

For security directors and company executives, protecting a company’s people and assets encompasses the implementation of a wide variety of different solutions. For some this might be the addition ...

The company that performs many of the federal government’s security background checks received $16 million in incentive awards even as it took shortcuts in hundreds of thousands of its reviews, ...

From fake sign language interpreters to a Secret Service staffing crisis that led people to question whether the agents protecting former President Donald Trump were sufficiently qualified, recent ...

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency took over management of the background investigations process but does not own all of the related IT systems—yet. With less than one year left to ...

It's a step toward tackling a security clearance backlog. President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Wednesday officially making the U.S. military responsible for virtually all security ...

Background check records of 25,000 undercover investigators and other homeland security staff were exposed in the breach at US Investigations Services (USIS) this month, unnamed officials told Reuters ...