Federal networks and systems today are under unrelenting attack by persistent, sophisticated and resourceful adversaries who operate on behalf of nation states or criminal groups with the aim of stealing sensitive data, causing harm or exploiting federal and military systems.
Particularly at the state and local levels, the number of cybersecurity-related jobs already outnumbers people qualified to fill them, and that demand is growing rapidly. To counter that shortage, some organizations are creating new strategies to organize and recruit cyber professionals.
The legacy infrastructure supporting IT functions has often been resilient. And to its credit, it often demands little attention, allowing for a level of complacency. But with this complacency comes risk.
To understand the role of digital services, we first must understand what the term means. From there, we can understand how it transforms government.
While we have outgrown many things, like baby food, safety scissors, and napping in public with impunity, there are some parts of our childhood that stay with us forever. The movies we watched are one such example. What gives Disney and Pixar films staying power are the lessons they can teach us at all stages… Read more »
Application intelligence provides deep insight into the application’s end-user experience by answering the question: How are users actually using and experiencing the application?
Colorado’s Chief Technology Officer David McCurdy isn’t alone in his quest to make the state a leader in delivering cloud services. But McCurdy doesn’t want that designation just for the sake of it.
As digital transformation continues to push government services and citizen interactions online, safeguarding content and data in a landscape filled with laptops and mobile devices is a new challenge.
The proliferation of access points has added to the problem of keeping information safe. Now data is being accessed from remote work centers and employees’ homes or positions in the field, plus mobile devices and more. Here are four main access points to watch out for.
The increased use of applications has led to more complex IT environments as agencies adopt cloud, mobile, and virtual technologies. The complexity means that managing application performance is more challenging than ever. What agencies need is greater visibility into their applications, and application intelligence can help with that.