Jon Ramsey, chief technology officer of Secureworks (Nasdaq: SCWX), said information technology modernization initiatives provide government agencies an opportunity to take advantage of innovative ways to address cyber threats and one of those is network microsegmentation, which could help them reduce the attack surface. Network microsegmentation “can go a long …
Read More »Virtustream’s Pritesh Parekh: Managed Cloud Services Could Help Agencies Migrate, Secure Workloads
Pritesh Parekh, chief trust and security officer at Dell Technologies’ (NYSE: DELL) Virtustream business, said agencies looking to migrate to the cloud should implement cloud-native platforms and a unified approach to security as they temporarily operate in a hybrid environment. Parekh wrote that agencies that are transitioning to the cloud …
Read More »Boomi’s Alan Lawrence: Federal IT Modernization Key to Improve Data Security, Engagement & Mission Outcomes
Alan Lawrence, vice president of federal at Dell Technologies‘ (NYSE: DELL) Boomi business, said government agencies should shift their focus from maintaining legacy information technology systems and applications to advancing IT modernization to improve data security, employee and customer engagement and mission outcomes. “Data has become a valuable asset and …
Read More »Palantir to Help Army Modernize Mission Command Capabilities Under Prototype Contract
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a contract to provide a prototype for the U.S. Army’s network design experimentation effort and help the service modernize its mission command capabilities.
Read More »CenturyLink Achieves FISMA Authorization for Federal Data Security; David Young Quoted
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has received Federal Information Security Management Act certification that validates its network and security operations centers' capacity to implement recognized data security controls for U.S. government systems.
Read More »Acquia’s Peter Durand: Cloud Tech Could Help Agencies Improve Citizen Interactions
Peter Durand, vice president of public sector at Acquia, said adopting cloud-based technologies could help government agencies securely facilitate interactions with citizens and manage applications in the cloud.
Read More »GovCon Expert Bill Downer: Securing the Supply Chain; Securing the Data
Bill Downer, vice president of national programs for Seagate Government Solutions, has released his second article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Monday after exploring the impact or lack of impact CMMC will have on supply chains and data hygiene. Click here to become a GovCon Expert.
Read More »Red Hat’s David Egts on Importance of Multicloud, Automation in Federal Digital Transformation
David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, explained in a video interview posted Thursday on FedScoop how a multicloud portfolio approach to information technology helps accelerate digital transformation efforts in the federal government.
Read More »Lockheed’s Matt Tarascio, Chris Benson: Secure, Unbiased Datasets Key to Establishing Public Trust in AI
Matt Tarascio and Chris Benson of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) said agencies should begin with having unbiased, secure datasets in order to build up the public’s trust in artificial intelligence applications and comply with legal requirements.
Read More »Data Can Aid Organizations in Gov’t Cybersecurity Compliance Efforts
Insights from data sets have the potential to help organizations in efforts to comply with the U.S. government's information security requirements such as the Department of Defense Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, Federal News Network reported Monday. The Potomac Officers Club will host its CMMC Forum 2020 on April 2. Click here to register for the event.
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