FedTech Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reacted quickly after discovering a cyber breach in January that exploited a pair of gateways, a reminder that no entity is immune to such attacks. infrastructure and the Chemical Security Assessment Tool used to determine terrorism risks at facilities.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A new compendium explores European defense and security in the current geopolitical context, with articles on talent, supply chains, innovation, and climate change.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

At the same time, end users can be the weak link in information security if they don’t have the proper training and don’t understand how important their contribution can be. Government IT teams can take specific steps to foster a culture of information security through education and preparedness exercises and by leveraging technology.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These two issues are closely connected: As states pursue ways to offer new services to citizens and improve current ones, they also face greater security challenges. The nature of state government IT operations can create additional security challenges.

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 10, 2023

Uniquely created legacy systems, specific risk factors, and highly sensitive data all require the utmost security from agencies’ IT teams, but equally, those teams must embrace the future of federal IT security solutions. It is at this nexus that many agencies find themselves at the moment. However, that is precisely the case.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Tom Middendorp, chair of the International Military Council on Climate and Security, discusses the link between climate change and security and the important role that the defense sector can play.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 6, 2023

A multicloud environment offers numerous benefits, including a high degree of scalability and flexibility, but it also presents challenges around security. Federal IT leaders should consider these four steps to remove complexity from their cloud security environments and keep resources safe from attack.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 18, 2023

Unfortunately, a number of factors can get in the way of ensuring secure and stress-free digital interactions for state and local constituents, including: Bad actors are well aware of vulnerabilities in backend outdated solutions, yet IT departments may lack the resources to keep these systems patched.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to join senior decision-makers and thought leaders from around the world at the 60th edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) from February 16-18. MSC is a leading global forum for discussing the most pressing international security challenges.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 5, 2024

With election security a top concern, Arctic Wolf commissioned the Center for Digital Government to survey over 130 state and local government leaders about their perceived state of readiness. Spoiler alert: They don’t feel ready.

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GovLoop

JULY 18, 2023

Good Security Is Good CX Because improved employee experience leads to improved customer experience (CX), making things work easily is essential. That’s especially true of security. People shouldn’t have to think about security when they’re doing their jobs. They need security that’s just on and just works,” Barry said.

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Google Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The newly-released Google Workspace security guidance can help government agencies reach compliance by providing steps they can follow to introduce Google Workspace tools while adhering to the GC standards. The guidance can help Canadian teams collaborate without compromising security.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 29, 2023

We must improve security because the impacts of human error on cybersecurity can be immense, and one small slip-up can have disastrous impacts One small slip-up or moment of personal irresponsibility can cause havoc for even the most robust organisations. The statistics speak for themselves.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Securing data centers is of prime importance to state and local governments as they seek to modernize their IT infrastructure and take advantage of technology refreshes to support their distributed workforces. Three important avenues are identity and access, the digital infrastructure, and security processes and technologies.

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Careers in Government

APRIL 15, 2024

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GovLoop

MAY 12, 2023

Logging, monitoring and auditing are essential components of maintaining security and identifying vulnerabilities. Access Controls: Just as users’ passwords should be rotated every 90 days or so, security keys need to be changed with regularity. Effective key management requires that cryptographic keys have a designated lifespan.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Agencies looking to establish hybrid data centers need comprehensive security strategies that set realistic time frames and are mapped to their respective budgets. These strategies should identify desired security tools and practices such as cloud environments and ways to continuously monitor them.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This often presents challenges for both the tenant provider (central IT/Operations) and for the agencies, especially when it comes to data security policies. We also invite customer, industry, and Microsoft experts to have discussions covering topics related to data security, privacy, risk, data governance, and compliance. 

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GovLoop

APRIL 26, 2023

But security is equally crucial. As data increases, it becomes more challenging to store, share and secure it, within and across organizations. “We Keep Access Authorized A big challenge is managing the tension between keeping data secure and making it accessible.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consumer messaging apps and government While consumer messaging apps have become a convenient and easily accessible communications and collaboration option, they pose significant security risks. The problem is that consumer apps are designed for massive scale and extensibility, not necessarily for security.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Following five success factors can help create a winning strategy for embedding security into the new-product life cycle.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

The downside of a network device “just working” is that it may not be properly configured for security. You buy an out-of-the-box network switch or internet router because it requires minimal effort on your part, and when you plug it in, most of the time it just works. Compromised network devices can affect network stability and data privacy.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Coping with tool overload: Organizations often resort to using point solutions, which can create problems later, including growing cloud complexity, deeper technical debt and increasing security gaps. 90% of organizations in the survey are unable to identify, mitigate and address cyber threats within one hour. Favorite

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 14, 2023

Government IT leaders should consider improving their security with tools designed to go beyond signature-based detection to spot unknown but potentially malicious behaviour We live in a world of escalating digital threats to government IT systems. That means external, organised crime gangs are the biggest threat to government security.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

New Jersey Judiciary CIO Jack McCarthy was faced with a challenge: how to ensure these newly remote workers could securely access sensitive systems using legacy architecture. McCarthy turned to solutions from Zscaler and started to forge a path toward zero-trust security.

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GovLoop

APRIL 4, 2023

To expound on that and meet new compliance requirements, GSA efforts began to dovetail with the White House Executive Order on cybersecurity from May 2021 and its emphasis on adopting security best practices, centered on a zero-trust security strategy. Favorite

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GovLoop

JULY 3, 2023

As a means of protecting IT systems, identity security also supports a smooth, simplified and secure employee experience. A Complex Security Landscape Many federal agencies still struggle to implement effective identity management as they seek to secure systems while supporting a seamless user experience.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 21, 2023

Before the Department of Defense can shift from perimeter network defenses to cloud security, it must first verify that its zero-trust security systems work in the cloud.

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GCN

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Federal, state and local government partners are providing air and infrastructure security, cybersecurity, threat assessments and real-time situational awareness.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 20, 2024

The General Services Administration announced plans to upgrade security and infrastructure for its eRulemaking Program, Regulations.gov, which encourages the public to review and comment on proposed regulatory and nonregulatory actions across the federal government.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Former Netherlands chief of defense Tom Middendorp, the “climate general,” discusses efforts to decarbonize defense forces and the security risks that could be heightened by climate change.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, the exchange of sensitive health data introduces many complexities, requiring specialized solutions to make sure information is shared securely and in consistent formats across organizations. and has undergone independent security assessment conducted by a third-party assessment organization (3PAO).

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Organisations face the growing risk of becoming victims of cyber security threats – what can they do to avoid them? Organisations face the growing risk of becoming victims of cyber security threats and this is no surprise as it is a highly lucrative enterprise for cybercriminals. It’s very easy to ignore them until it’s too late.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Identity is key to securing government systems. During a recent GovLoop online training titled “ Building an Identity-centric Security Foundation ,” three government and industry experts discussed challenges around identity and described important first steps for agencies looking to elevate their approach to identity.

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the FBI provides security guidance to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies accessing criminal justice information currently or previously managed by the bureau.

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GCN

OCTOBER 24, 2022

While the federal government can mandate overall cloud security requirements, each state, local and education agency has its own authority, StateRAMP’s Leah McGrath explains.

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