Industry leaders to Congress: Boost IT, cyber infrastructure for telework at federal agencies

Federal agencies can take steps to improve the security of their systems to keep up with the changing demands of a remote workforce, industry leaders from Deloitte, Williams Companies and other firms told a Senate Homeland panel at a hearing Tuesday.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought an increased urgency for Congress “to look at the current telework practices to see what is working and not working for the federal workforce and learn lessons from what is happening in the private...