The volume, velocity and variety of data that organizations are dealing with has increased dramatically in recent years. While all this data poses new challenges to leaders — especially in the U.S. government — it can also unlock troves of important organizational insights if collected, analyzed and harnessed with the right tools. Rob Carey, pre...
Todd Helfrich, vice president of federal sales at SentinelOne (NYSE: S), said government agencies should advance cyber resiliency, adopt industry best practices and reduce the identity attack surface to protect endpoints and networks from cyber adversaries. Helfrich wrote that cyber resiliency has been highlighted by the release of guidance by the N...
Gina Scinta, deputy chief technology officer at Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, said government agencies should implement proper access controls to better safeguard data from cyberthreat actors, including the use of multifactor authentication and crypto-agile platforms. Scinta wrote that agencies should adopt multifactor authentication that depen...
Sean Frazier, federal chief security officer at Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), said government agencies should consider identity as critical infrastructure and modernize their identity and access management to provide better user experiences. “Agencies can assess the state of their identity infrastructure by continually asking whether they are delivering th...
Paul Kurtz, chief cybersecurity adviser for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), said government agencies looking to have access to real-time operational intelligence to speed up threat detection and incident response and improve their cybersecurity posture should adopt automation and advance collaboration. “Agencies should have intelligence wo...
Chris Chapman, a senior vice president and chief technology officer at MacStadium, said government agencies should consider providing employees remote access to Mac technology through the cloud to offer an environment for application development and general office use. To address the need, Chapman said MacStadium has come up with virtualization plat...
ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) has secured a potential five-year, $250 million blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide digital workflow platforms to help HHS manage applications, optimize inventory and reduce waste. The company said Thursday it partnered with Carahsoft Technology to offer its ServiceNow Technol...
Mike Malaret, director of sales engineering for public sector at Veritas Technologies, said government agencies should prioritize data protection by developing a detailed strategy that could enable them to quickly respond to data breaches and restore data and applications that are key to delivering services to citizens. Malaret urged agencies to imp...
James Donlon, director of solution engineering at Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), said government agencies that are moving to the cloud as part of their digital modernization efforts should adopt cloud-based tools that provide them security capabilities and visibility into their IT systems. Donlon discussed how cloud-based automation could enable agencies to p...
Kevin Hansen, public sector chief technology officer at Micro Focus Government Solutions, said government agencies looking to implement cloud-based systems and manage mission-critical legacy information technology platforms should develop a strategy that takes agility, flexibility and governance into consideration. “To avoid legacy IT dependencies...
