A new, holistic approach to cyber risk management is needed, so federal agencies can build a more secure digital future and better achieve their missions. That includes zero-trust principles, cloud security, and deep understanding of data risk.
Government faces increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, from both foreign and domestic bad actors. Here are several key trends for public-sector cybersecurity in 2025, underscoring the challenges agencies face.
Configuration management is critical to cloud security because many products come with default settings that do not provide adequate security.
In the year ahead, adversaries certainly will continue to refine their tradecraft, becoming even more sophisticated and brazen in their cyber campaigns.
The move to remote work increases agency exposure to adversarial risk. Agencies need to mitigate cybercrime as more of their employees work remotely.
The golden rule of security is to always be prepared.
Cloud computing is an integral piece of today’s IT government infrastructure. That means cloud security is top of mind for nearly all government leaders.
Moving to the cloud is one way agencies are transforming. But as different instances of cloud get set up across agencies, siloes are created, and a holistic approach to security can become nearly impossible.
GovLoop and AWS partnered to highlight what secure cloud vendors have to offer agencies that want to take a mission-focused approach to cloud adoption.
More public sector agencies are moving their operations and applications to the cloud, and are looking for a common cloud infrastructure.