Committee links Ed Dept CIO's ethics to cyber failures

Federal Times: In an unusual coupling of issues, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform grilled several senior Education Department officials about the agency’s cybersecurity failings and an ethics probe into agency CIO Danny Harris.

The three-hour hearing seesawed back and forth between the department’s cybersecurity woes and Harris’ relationship with a vendor and income he earned detailing cars and installing home entertainment systems, though most of the committee’s questions centered on the CIO.

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