In today’s digital age, federal agencies are increasingly reliant on software applications to meet their missions and deliver improved services to the citizens they serve. IT environments are more complex than ever due to cloud, mobile and virtualization, and that means managing and optimizing application performance can be challenging. Often agencies don’t have the properRead… Read more »
Last month, we put out a call for our eighth round of GovLoop Featured Bloggers – and you responded with amazing enthusiasm. People from all walks of government and industry life sent in great ideas for posts, about everything from technology challenges in city government to using Twitter to monitor food safety in your city…. Read more »
Addressing concerns that federal agencies are not taking advantage of innovative cybersecurity offerings, particularly from small businesses and startups.
Welcome to the GovLoop Academy course on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, where you will learn about what they are and how your agency can prevent and respond to them. By taking this course, you will be enrolled in five lessons about DDoS attacks and how to prevent them. We will explore what DDoSRead… Read more »
Agency use of social media must follow general standards of care regarding government conduct. Here’s how.
In a recent interview, Anthony Lauro, Senior Enterprise Security Architect at Akamai, a content delivery network and cloud computing services provider, shared how organizations can build new, more effective cybersecurity strategies to combat growing threats.
Federal agencies are under great pressure to optimize infrastructure to better support mission performance and resilience. To do that, the engines that power information processing – the federal datacenters – need to leverage innovation to achieve speed, increase security, density and reduce power consumption.
In a collaborative work environment, employee productivity increases, service delivery costs go down, and the overall outcome is improved. These advancements are more important than ever in the public sector. So, how do you make collaboration a reality?
It’s hard to imagine that just a few years ago Cook County, Ill., – the second most populous county in the country – had no centralized management strategy or directive for its various agencies’ IT security protocols and tools. Today, the county has both a central security office within its Department of Homeland Security and… Read more »
There’s no question that the cards are stacked against cash-strapped municipalities, but it certainly isn’t impossible for them to get back on track.