Margaret Amori, Inception lead for public sector at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), said the company works to help the federal government adopt artificial intelligence in five areas and one of those is through graphic processing units and other platforms that NVIDIA offers for AI development and deployment. Amori wrote that one of those platforms is the ...
Michael Hylton, senior director of government sales at OPSWAT, said agencies seeking to protect information technology systems and government data from cyberthreats should extend their zero trust strategy to every file and “assume that it’s malicious until proven otherwise.” He wrote about how OPSWAT applies its content disarm and reconstructi...
Kevin Kuhls, technical solutions architect at Forward Networks, said government agencies looking to safeguard information technology systems from cyberthreats and improve their zero trust architecture should have visibility into their networks and validate network behavior by using a digital twin. “A digital twin is a behaviorally accurate softwar...
Bill Becker, vice president of product management at Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, said agencies seeking to protect data should recognize the importance of user authentication. Becker wrote that agencies should consider raising the required authentication level as users seek to gain access to higher-level data and applications. “The key is to...
Brandon Shopp, group vice president – product at SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), said agencies need comprehensive visibility and control over their information technology systems through continuous monitoring of on-premises and cloud environments to help prevent security vulnerabilities and other cyberthreats. Shopp wrote that agencies looking to gain...
Jeffrey Phelan, public sector chief technology officer at Rubrik, said agencies need to implement certain best practices to protect data and information technology infrastructure from ransomware attacks and other cyber threats. Phelan wrote that there are four steps agencies can do to secure data across on-premises and cloud environments and the fir...
Brian Reed, chief mobility officer at NowSecure, said government agencies should have programs in place to facilitate continuous monitoring of mobile applications to detect and address vulnerabilities that could pose security risks to employees and data. Reed wrote that agencies should commit to ensuring the security of mobile apps and establish mis...
Carolyn Duby, field chief technology officer and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, said government agencies seeking to protect their systems from cyberattacks should recognize the importance of data and adopt artificial intelligence to glean insights from collected data. “AI speeds analysis and is particularly effective when agencies move from signa...
Brian Robison, vice president of solutions strategy and chief evangelist at BlackBerry (NYSE: BB), said agencies should redirect their security initiatives toward people, apps and data to keep up and meet the needs of a mobile workforce. Robison wrote that securing apps and data starts with user identification and transitioning to a continuous authe...
Sean Berg, president of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, said agencies looking to implement zero trust architectures should tailor their security strategy to individual users and understand users’ behavior. Berg wrote that implementing security policies that consider all users as equally risky could impede the abil...
