How to Take a Unified Approach to Network and Cyber Operations
To accelerate their ability to respond to modern cyber threats, agencies must enable their network and security operations centers to work together seamlessly.
Leadership Excellence: A Guide for New Government Supervisors
Becoming a successful government supervisor involves blending technical skills with strong leadership qualities, fostering innovation, building supportive networks, and continuously developing oneself through mentorship, training, and leveraging technologies such as AI to drive team performance and public service excellence.
Unlocking Potential: The Power of Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Psychological safety means that employees feel they are allowed to voice their opinions, share their ideas, and make mistakes without the fear of punishment, retribution, or embarrassment. Elaine Ho, Executive Director for STEM Engagement at NASA, joins workplace transformation expert Mika Cross on the latest episode of “Management Minutes With Mika” to discuss the powerRead… Read more »
Prepare for Future Threats With Quantum Safe Cryptography
Quantum computing offers revolutionary opportunities, but also poses a grave threat to current cryptographic systems. Here is how organizations can protect themselves from quantum risks.
Don’t Trash This Place: The Trucks Are Watching
In Columbia, South Carolina, garbage trucks could become the eyes of the city’s Public Works Administration. Using a beautification grant, the city is testing a program that would outfit trash trucks with cameras that gather footage for an AI system called City Detect to analyze for code violations — a potential boon to code enforcers.
Caring for Your Team While Working With Sensitive Topics
For many of us, public-sector work brings us a sense of purpose. As personally rewarding and important as this work can be, repeated exposure to sensitive topics without mitigating its impact can lead to burnout and second-hand trauma.
Machine Learning Applications in Public Sector Projects
Machine learning is transforming public sector services by enabling predictive analytics, improving decision-making, optimizing operations like transportation and social services, and enhancing efficiency, while offering opportunities for innovation and improved resource allocation with careful attention to ethical use and data privacy.
How to Build Mission-Capable Security Talent
To navigate today’s cybersecurity environment, federal agencies must build a pipeline of security talent. But that’s a challenge. There are several ways to address the talent shortage. Here are some suggestions.
How to Make Zero Trust More Manageable
Zero-trust architecture, while widely recognized as essential to modern security, has earned a reputation as a daunting undertaking. John Kindervag, who is credited with defining the zero trust approach in 2010 when he was a principal analyst at Forrester Research, would like to bust that myth.
How AI Could Revolutionize Cyber Operations
AI has the potential to enhance cybersecurity immensely — but also poses a threat. Agency security professionals need to get up to speed on this double-edged tool.