Cybersecurity

Biden Administration Releases Draft Zero-Trust Guidance

The documents form a roadmap for agencies to deploy the cybersecurity architectures by the end of fiscal 2024.

Ideas

5 Steps to Protecting Federal Data Repositories in the Cloud

From ransomware to exfiltration, cybersecurity attacks are targeting sensitive government data. Here’s a reliable approach to protecting mission-critical information.

Modernization

Survey: Most Organizations Embrace Hybrid Cloud 

In a survey of U.S. and U.K. IT decision makers, three out of four reported onboarding a new cloud provider during 2020.

Ideas

Developing a Holistic Approach to Multicloud Security

To be effective, a multicloud security strategy needs to provide end-to-end protection that gives agencies visibility across hosts and services.

Ideas

Building Resiliency into the Future of the Federal Government

Creating a digital workplace that enables government users to work virtually from anywhere with the productivity, personalization and security they need is vital to digital resiliency.

Modernization

What a Top Secret Cloud Means for Microsoft

A commercial platform announced last year is now generally available to government customers.

Modernization

Agriculture Launching New IT System to Manage Discrimination Complaints

The new Civil Rights Management System will live in a USDA-owned and operated cloud environment.

Modernization

NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon

Much of the NSA’s most prized intelligence data may be moving to the cloud.   

Ideas

Two Keys to Delivering Exceptional Citizen Experiences

The infrastructures many government agencies had in 2019 weren’t built to handle the amount of traffic organizations experienced during the pandemic.

Ideas

Augmentation for Data-Driven Success

Augmentation techniques can help the Defense Department implement its data strategy goals.

Cybersecurity

Advisory Details How to Defend Container Tech from Crypto Miners

Old fashioned data theft is still the main reason adversaries are targeting a popular open-source application management system.

Ideas

Federal Push for Omnichannel Experiences to Deliver Modern Public Service

An omnichannel experience is more than plugging texts, email or video communications into a program.

Podcasts

Critical Update: How the Controversial JEDI Contract Changed the Pentagon

Experts say the doomed contract helped take cloud literacy at the Defense Department to the next level.

Ideas

The State of Data Security in the Federal Government

Most agencies don’t have a solid grasp of what data they have or where it is located.

Ideas

DOD’s Forecast Post-JEDI: Multi-Cloud with a Chance of Peril

The Defense Department's needs are diverse and have become even more disparate amidst the post-SolarWinds landscape.

Cybersecurity

VA Needs a Security Check For Its Social Security Number Reduction Tool

The app was recently migrated into a VA-managed cloud environment and needs a new authority to operate and some upgrades.

Emerging Tech

Microsoft, Army Sign Cooperative Research Agreement for Storm Modeling

The Army Engineer Research and Development Center will demonstrate the scalability of its storm modeling system in Azure Government cloud.