Posts By Mariah Bastin

Saying Goodbye to Siloed Security

This blog post is an excerpt from GovLoop’s recent guide, Understanding State and Local Government. Download the full guide here.  Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 threat research team released its 2015 Application Usage and Threat Report (AUTR) analyzing and correlating data from more than 7,000 organizations over a 12-month period gaining broad visibility into critical trends. Findings showRead… Read more »

How Workforce Management Tools Help in a Disaster

This blog post is an excerpt from GovLoop’s recent guide, Understanding State and Local Government. Download the full guide here.   Wildfires, tornados, snowstorms – when disaster strikes, first responders are the first to rush to the scene. However, making sure the right first responders are in place is imperative to a government’s successful response to a disaster.Read… Read more »

How Data Can Make A Difference

Think back to when you were in school. You would approach your final exam thinking, “How on earth am I going to digest a semester’s worth of information for this one test?” But you hopefully figured out that mass information had to be broken down into smaller categories. Without some semblance of organization, information canRead… Read more »