The Risky Business of Cloud
The agencies that protect the citizen data in their clouds the longest are the ones that best assess the risks facing them daily.
The agencies that protect the citizen data in their clouds the longest are the ones that best assess the risks facing them daily.
The Trump administration rolled out a new program aimed at retraining federal employees to fill open cybersecurity positions in the government.
GovLoop surveyed 113 public sector employees about the approach their agency is taking to track cybersecurity spend and how they are improving visibility.
Common themes that make or break the success of the project are consistent. This includes how cybersecurity fits into the transformation. Every project has five phases and cybersecurity efforts must be a part of all of them.
Organizations must make closing the cybersecurity a focus area that is woven in their strategy plans. Alignment from the top down will drive progress in the right direction.
Cloud-based security could be the future of user-focused identity and access management.
Organizations with multiple cloud environments are repeatedly losing track of where their data resides and what walls are surrounding it.
There are four common reporting and visibility challenges that government agencies face. Splunk’s Anthony Perez explains how agencies can address them.
The reality for many agencies is their leaders must make tough decisions in prioritizing where the limited funds should go. In some cases, that can leave cybersecurity capabilities with insufficient funds to meet future goals and objectives.
To the surprise of many, moving data to the cloud does not necessarily make it secure. Agency IT and security operations teams must still use cloud providers’ tools and processes, as well as their own existing infrastructure, to protect data.