You’ve probably heard the term low-hanging fruit before. But if you haven’t, the idea is that when handling a difficult project, you do the easy things first. For example, when the White House mandated a Cloud First Policy back in 2011, agencies first transitioned email and other non-critical applications over to the cloud. However, nowRead… Read more »
30 million – that’s the number of malicious cybersecurity intrusions the Department of Defense thwarted in 2015. That translates to 3 million attacks per month or 100,000 attacks per day. Part of the reason for all of these intrusions is that there are more than one billion connected devices on the Internet today. That meansRead… Read more »
A new cyber executive order signed by President Donald Trump makes clear that the heads of government agencies will be held accountable for managing security risks across their organizations. However, in order to manage your security risks, you first have to know what your security risks actually are. A few years ago, the government createdRead… Read more »
State and local government employees are on the ground floor of public service. They‘re the ones who are constantly engaging with the community, whether it’s about the schools their citizens attend, trash collection, or building permits. In short, city and state employees are the ones that make it happen. And just like their federal counterparts,Read… Read more »
State and local governments have long endured staff shortages and shrinking budgets. That’s forced organizations to re-imagine the way they combine technology and personnel to build the most efficient processes that also meet citizen needs. Now, spurred by White House memorandum OMB 17-22, federal government is mandated to do the same. The April 2017 memoRead… Read more »
These days you can order a car to pick you up with the swipe of a finger. You can purchase flowers, check your bank accounts and connect with your colleagues over email or chat – all from your phone. The ease of these digital transactions makes customers not only happy, but loyal. Citizens and businessesRead… Read more »
Raise your hand if you’ve ever worked on a poorly managed project. Everyone? Most likely. And the reason for this is because project management is hard. Like really, really hard. As a team leader you’re expected to not only deliver on the goals and mission of the project, but also to align and motivate yourRead… Read more »
Every government agency has terabytes of data, everything from social security numbers, to environmental data, to business records. And it’s imperative for agencies to make sure that information is secured properly. The key is to make sure the right people have access to the right data sets at the right time – which is knownRead… Read more »
Government agencies have a ton of legacy and Mainframe applications running right now. Some of these applications were developed ten, fifteen years ago or longer. In technology terms they are dinosaurs. To make matters worse, these are mission critical applications. It is not easy to just rip and replace them all with modern technologies suchRead… Read more »
A few years ago, cloud was the buzziest of buzzwords. Every government news article touted the new era of cloud computing and how this up-and coming-technology would change the way the government worked. And those new articles were right; the government has invested heavily in cloud technologies. Federal agencies are expected to spend more thanRead… Read more »