Do you have centralized visibility in your environment? Are you able to quickly detect and respond to advanced threats? Do you have the skill sets and resources to protect and remediate potential data breaches? Ransomware has hit government agencies hard across the country with an enormous increase in attacks from the previous year. Texas has not been immune to these threats either, as attackers continue to find new methods of exploiting vulne...

Even as states begin to re-open after being closed for weeks due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, the government workforce and contractors will continue to work from home or remotely for the foreseeable future. They require secure remote access to applications to be productive. While applications have migrated to the public cloud or have been replaced by SaaS applications, there remain many applications that cannot be migrated or replaced. These m...

State and Local government agencies at all levels are increasingly turning to modern applications to improve their communications with and responsiveness to the public. Government records and data that were previously isolated and difficult for the public to access are now becoming widely available through APIs. Data like property taxes, public school information, crime statistics, state taxations, permits, etc. are easily available to the pub...

Phishing attacks are rising dramatically, particularly those aimed at state and local governments, with recent reports suggesting incidents have nearly doubled. Attacks have targeted a wide swath of the workforce—from revenue and tax officials to employees in elections and unemployment offices.The increased number of phishing incidents have moved beyond email to also target victims through social media, texts and other channels. Regardle...

States, cities and counties across the United States trust Elastic, the industry leader in security, observability and search use cases, to solve their mission-critical problems with data-based insights.Elastic and Collin County took the virtual stage for a conversation exploring a real-world success story involving a single security use case that quickly expanded to other IT departments and personas. During the event, our featured speakers co...

After the events of the past few years, security is in the forefront of election officials’ minds. The individual states are responsible for conducting elections, so the National Association of Counties (NACo) at its annual legislative conference just conducted a series of workshops and panels on the range of threats facing election workers and voters alike. While physical threats, intimidation and harassment are primary concerns, there...