GovLoop

DECEMBER 1, 2023

At the same time, a raft of federal mandates and guidance has focused attention on supply-chain security: The May 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity says leaders “must take action to rapidly improve the security and integrity of the software supply chain.”

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GovLoop

JUNE 30, 2023

There are a lot of points of entry now,” said Raghurama Pantula, Director of Information Security for Karsun Solutions, a modernization company that applies innovative approaches to help achieve agency missions. “So, This article appears in our report “ Getting Legacy Systems Up to Speed With Modern Security.”

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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interactions for state and local constituents, including: Bad actors are well aware of vulnerabilities in backend outdated solutions, yet IT departments may lack the resources to keep these systems patched.

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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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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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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

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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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 23, 2023

The global pool of security professionals needs to grow 65% to defend organisations’ critical assets – so how can we plug the cybersecurity skills gap? Indeed, (ISC)² estimates that the global pool of security professionals needs to grow 65% to defend organisations’ critical assets effectively.

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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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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

To support federal customers in addressing these challenges, Amazon Web Services (AWS) developed the Data Fabric Security (DFS) on AWS solution to support the identity and access needs of a multi-organization system. This will facilitate agile and secure data sharing with their providers.

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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Arnie Armstrong, Cyber Security Principal at Made Tech , explains why a user-centred cyber security approach is vital to local government We often hear that the biggest cyber security vulnerability in any organisation is its own employees, but is this really the case? Could user-centred cyber security be the answer?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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GovLoop

AUGUST 24, 2023

Identity security (also known as identity governance and identity management) protects against the cyber threats associated with providing technology access to a diverse workforce. What are some of the key characteristics of an effective approach to identity security?

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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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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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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 3, 2023

A practical guide to transforming security teams, processes, and tools to support cloud security development Every day, we see new challenges emerging with cloud security which teams struggle to tackle. How do we ingrain security into the culture of cloud teams and get developers to remediate?

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The mass adoption of cloud solutions by government agencies has improved cost management and service delivery but has brought with it some significant security challenges. Implementing Zero Trust has enabled NJJ to secure employees from anywhere, expand service capabilities, and build a more resilient security posture.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Many organizations within state and local government (SLG) and education must build digital environments and services that meet a variety of dynamic security and compliance considerations, such as StateRAMP and Federal Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ).

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lire cet article en Français Moving Government of Canada (GC) workloads into production in the AWS Canadian Regions requires putting these workloads through the Security Assessment & Authorization (SA&A) process. 50.105 , the cloud security risk management approach allows for the stacking of assessments like building blocks.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

To prevent another SolarWinds-type cyberattack, federal agencies — including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and National Security Agency (NSA) — have issued new guidance to help agencies better secure their software supply chains.

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s “security-by-design and -default” principles ignore the fact that software manufacturers working with federal agencies and the military already design their solutions with security at the fore.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Reliable electricity is essential to the conveniences of modern life and vital to our nation’s economy and security. But the electricity grid is an attractive target for cyberattacks from U.S. adversaries—such as nations like China and Russia, as.

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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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GCN

APRIL 7, 2023

From hiring an open source security lead to establishing new public-private sector initiatives, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is taking open source software security risks head on, according to Jen Easterly.

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