Working Within a New Cyber Framework
What exactly does the CSF recommend and how can governments use it to tackle their own unique organizational concerns?
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The Importance of a Recovery Plan Today
Federal agencies often overlook the recovery step of a cyberattack. Given all the energy that agencies must put into detecting, defending and responding to an attack, this omission is understandable, but today more than ever, recovery is critical.
What is Integrated Cyber Defense?
The rise in sophisticated cyberattacks and the increasingly broad attack landscape means that agencies must adopt integrated cyber defense. This security model combines threat protection, information protection and compliance enforcement with federal standards in one framework.
A New Era of Cybersecurity: Zero Trust
Cybersecurity seems simple enough. The old methodology went something along the lines of installing a strong IT network, training employees to identify and avoid risks, and locking down the most sensitive information in-house.
How to Develop the Cybersecurity Workforce Government Needs
Despite challenges from a cybersecurity workforce shortage, some agencies are making progress to improve hiring and employee training.
Threat Detection: Why It’s So Critical to the Public Sector
Is the federal government taking threat detection seriously?
Moving to the Cloud With Operational Security
Agencies are concerned with the security of the data traversing on-premise, hybrid and cloud environments. In this interview, we learned how an end-to-end cloud security environment can be applied.
Protecting Your Most High-Value Assets with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
We’ve previously talked about adopting the CSF and identifying your most valuable assets and data. Now it’s time to discuss the next phase, Protect, which ensures that data at rest and in transit is secure.
The ‘Unsung Hero’ of IT Modernization
One perk of the MGT Act that’s often touted is the $500 million fund it would create, but some IT leaders say the real value will come from newly created working capital funds at each agency.
How to Confront the Next Industrial Revolution
At Smart Cyber, Symantec’s 14th Government Symposium, we heard from Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Secretary in the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She explained how DHS is attempting to achieve that balance between challenge and opportunity.