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...
Nick Warner, chief operating officer at SentinelOne (NYSE: S), said federal agencies should look at the potential of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other autonomous capabilities in protecting critical assets and sensitive data of citizens from cyberthreats and accelerating the detection of cyber vulnerabilities. “These automations a...
Scot Wilson, technical solutions architect at Forward Networks, said agencies seeking to get better insights into operations and security of multicloud environments should implement a network digital twin. “A digital twin can supply that single source of truth and ensure that applications are readable across clouds and on-premises systems and that...
Brian Paget, chief strategy officer at SAP National Security Services, said government agencies need a comprehensive strategy and a framework that would enable them to monitor cloud security, compliance, cost, resources and all other aspects of multicloud environments. Paget wrote that information technology teams at agencies should understand how t...
Christopher Radich, regional vice president of public sector digital strategy at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said government agencies seeking to reduce their dependence on custom code and improve customer service should develop and implement a multicloud strategy that includes a combination of software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and...
Patrick Thomas, cloud technologist at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies should come up with a more strategic approach to fielding and funding multicloud environments. “Beyond the total cost of ownership, they need to reevaluate how they pay for cloud products and services” by choosing between spending as a capital expe...
David Boland, senior director of product marketing at Wasabi Technologies, said cloud-based storage could enable government agencies to drive innovation by allowing their storage administrators to shift their focus from maintaining platforms on-site to doing more complex tasks. Boland wrote that cloud-based storage is more secure than on-pre...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal business, said agencies should reassess how they field and manage multicloud and hybrid information technology environments and one of the things they should consider is having a comprehensive, coherent security model that looks at the applications’ entire lifecyc...
