Zero Trust is now an integral part of the federal government’s strategy to bolster Cybersecurity in the face of increasingly aggressive and resourceful attackers, infiltrators and hackers. Understanding how pieces of enterprise networks play together and with Zero Trust is a crucial part of implementing it, but less noticed challenges will also present themselves as agencies move ahead with implementation. Anticipating those areas can al...

Time and time again, data breaches demonstrate the pitfalls of relying on detection to identify malicious activities taking place on the network, rather than prevention of the threat in the first place. The emphasis—post event—has been what the agency did wrong. But, what if we took a different approach that allowed agencies to share what has been working for them? Both before and after. Some tips and lessons from folks who have be...

The White House has made Zero Trust a cornerstone of federal cybersecurity efforts, setting clear agency goals with the May Executive Order and more recently seeking comment on a maturity model, technical reference architecture and formal federal Zero Trust strategy.That push portends dramatic changes for federal IT, but it aligns perfectly with the steps government agencies must take to ensure their data and systems are protected against incr...

Zero Trust is an integral part of the federal government's strategy to bolster cybersecurity in the face of increasingly aggressive and resourceful attackers, infiltrators and hackers. Understanding how to implement the strategy and a supporting platform across an enterprise can be daunting, however, as agencies move to the cloud and away from VPNs and other more traditional systems. Understanding how those pieces of enterprise networks play t...

In just a few short years, Robotic Process Automation has gone from a few scattered pilot projects to an essential tool deployed by dozens of agencies. Hundreds of thousands of staff-hours have been saved, and organizations are increasingly looking to leverage artificial intelligence to automate more-complicated workflows. Automation at scale comes with challenges, however -- from credential management to siloed systems to ensuring that outdat...

In recent months, Zero Trust has been more firmly cemented into the foundation of federal IT. In May of 2021, The White House issued an Executive Order requiring the federal government to adopt a Zero Trust approach to cybersecurity. The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is working on a long-term vision for Zero Trust adoption by federal agencies.As network boundaries dissolve, Zero Trust...

Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) and Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) have gained increased attention recently as several high profile incidents compromised a number of federal systems. In the wake of those incidents, The White House, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Institute for Standards and Technology have all stepped in to provide new guidance and tools for agencies to improve the...

Agencies modernizing their legacy systems are increasingly looking to the cloud for solutions that can help simplify and accelerate the process. Along with flexible, capable services, the cloud also offers a way to control costs and insure continuous network operations. As the migration to the cloud moves ahead, agencies are relying on multi-cloud, platform-as-a-service, as well as software-as-a-service solutions to help avoid the wholesale ...

During the course of the pandemic, government agencies have embraced hybrid cloud technologies, but they have faced challenges in managing and securing them. The Executive Order for agencies to develop a plan to implement Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) as part of their cybersecurity strategy runs in tandem with the federal “cloud smart” strategy. It’s not an easy combination. As agencies move to multi-cloud environments, an ag...

Although it got an encouraging $1 billion funding shot in the arm from the American Rescue Plan Act in early 2020, the effort to modernize and transform an aging infrastructure remains a complicated task that takes coordination, executive buy-in and detailed security and data strategies to make it work. The $1 billion set aside for the Technology Modernization Fund in the ARP smooths some modernization budgeting issues for agencies, which have...