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Tips for Tackling Complexity in Cyber Security Environments
October 9th, 2018
Reduce cyber security complexity by demanding standardization, consolidate tools, secure the data, identify high-value assets
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Revisiting Healthcare IT with a Strategic Vision
October 19th, 2016
Healthcare institutions continue to gather more and more data, making themselves increasingly vulnerable to ransomware and other types of cyberattacks.
- Tagged Cybersecurity, Health IT, Ransomware, Symantec
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Closing Cyber Gaps: Strategies for Resilience
October 14th, 2016
Government cybersecurity specialists are on the front lines of our nation’s infrastructure defense. Every day, public sector security officers face new attack vectors that seek to infiltrate and cause damage to the systems and networks that keep our nation running. Government cybersecurity teams don’t have the luxury or opportunity to get it wrong when it comes to cyber defense. That’s why cyber resilience is so critical.
- Tagged Cybersecurity, Data Center, Government Cybersecurity, Innovation in Government, Symantec, Threat
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NIST Frames the Cyber Challenge
October 3rd, 2016
Cybersecurity in government is no longer an afterthought. Security officers are helping to strategically design their networks and systems to comply with cyber demands from the moment they begin considering acquiring a new solution. The entire government cybersecurity community, including industry, academia, executives, and agencies themselves, have committed to work together to counter threats intelligently.
- Tagged Akamai, Anomali, CyberArk, CyberSponse, FireEye, HPE, HyTrust, NIST, Recorded Future, Resilient Systems, Splunk, Symantec, Tripwire, Vormetric
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A Smarter Approach to Today’s Cybersecurity Threats
September 2nd, 2016
The Symantec Government Symposium held in DC on August 30th brought together the best cybersecurity minds in government and in the industry to discuss a variety of topics which all ultimately had one core theme: the ability to gain intelligence from security data to stay agile and smart against today’s evolving threat landscape. The topics of conversation during the keynote presentations, TECHTalks, and breakout sessions can be broken down into three major categories with actionable items for government to improve their cyber posture.
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The State of Internet Threats & What Can Be Done to Combat Them
July 28th, 2016
In 2015, over 169 million records were exposed, which stemmed from nearly 800 publicized breaches across the public sector. This was a 38% increase in incidents from 2014 and these numbers show no sign of slowing down. The frequency of cyber-attacks is growing as we move more and more of our daily lives online. Attackers are findings new, creative ways to breach security at the same pace (if not faster) that we are learning to prevent the previous attack methods.
- Tagged Cyber Attack, Government Cybersecurity, Symantec
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4 Things You Should Know about Endpoint Protection
July 5th, 2016
The increasingly ubiquitous use of mobile devices by government employees is making endpoint security both more complex and more necessary. Many agencies looking to modernize device security are focused on user experience but they must also be vigilant around cyber-attacks. Both external and internal threats are constantly evolving, becoming more sophisticated and dangerous, and posing serious security challenges to an increasingly-connected workforce. From unification to thorough cybersecurity, there are several key factors CISOs, CTOs, and other agency security leaders should consider when implementing cyber protocols on organizational endpoints.
- Tagged Cyber Attack, Cybersecurity, Invincea, RSA, Symantec, VMware
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Cyber Vigilance: Empowering People and Technology
June 22nd, 2016
When choosing where to invest limited dollars and allocate already stretched resources, agencies are reaching a standstill – to combat threats successfully, organizations need both pieces of the puzzle – funds and expertise – in order to ensure that they’re adequately prepared.
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Features of a Modern Government Data Center
March 2nd, 2016
Today’s data center is ever-evolving and integrates with a widely interconnected and increasingly virtual IT infrastructure. Users today are innovating in their data centers with the use of applied technology. Check out these 6 ways data centers are becoming more agile and secure.
- Tagged Data Storage, Database, EMC, F5 Networks, Gigamon, QTS, Symantec, Veritas, VMware