For federal government agencies, it is not only a priority but a mandated requirement that the contractors and vendors they do business with have hardened cybersecurity compliance controls that secure their networks and protect the data and information they house.…
SteelCloud’s Brian Hajost on how federal agencies can effectively secure their software supply chains
As federal government agencies and the military continue to build upon the modernization efforts they’ve made across their workflows and services, it is critical that they carefully consider the cyber risks that each newly acquired application and piece of software…
Quest’s Chris Roberts on how federal agencies can bridge the skills gap between legacy Active Directory and Azure
It is a well-known fact that the majority of federal government agencies utilize on-premise Active Directory (AD) as the primary directory service for their IT infrastructures. But with the federal government encouraging agencies to follow aspirational federal IT initiatives like…
Quest’s Chris Roberts on the current state of federal zero trust
It has been more than two years since President Biden released his Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. Paramount to this EO was the directive for federal agencies to move towards adopting and implementing zero trust cybersecurity architectures.…
Active Directory Management (Part 2) – How automated and enhanced AD management tools sharpen federal cybersecurity
In our last article, the GovCyberHub sat down with Eric Weiss, Sr. Technology Executive at Quest Software Public Sector, Inc., to examine the current state of federal agencies’ Active Directory environments. This week, Eric returns to take a deep dive…
Active Directory Management (Part 1) – Quest’s Senior Technology Executive examines the current state of federal agencies’ AD environments
It’s hard to believe that it has been 23 years since Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) was released. Since its debut as a part of Windows 2000 Server, AD has gone through many evolutions and iterations to become the complex platform…
AD migration and consolidation (Part 2)—The tools and best practices federal agencies should employ to reach their desired end-states
In our last article, the GovCyberHub sat down with Quest Software’s Chris Esler to examine the reasons why federal agencies migrate and consolidate their Active Directory (AD) environments, as well as delve into the many different benefits these processes deliver…
How federal agencies are automating cyber compliance problem solving with their CBOM
Just as federal agencies need a software bill of materials (SBOM) in order to have a detailed breakdown of their supply chain relationships of open-source and commercial software components, government organizations also need to apply those same principles to their…
AD consolidation and migration (Part 1)—What federal agencies need to plan for and consider beforehand
As federal IT continues to evolve, it is not uncommon for government agencies to reorganize how they conduct business to match the pace of advancements in technologies. Add into the mix that administrations and leadership can change every four years,…
A CMMC 2.0 rule release is around the corner—What DIB and FSI organizations need to know about Level 2
It seems that any day now the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) will announce its rulemaking on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0. According to the CMMC policy Director for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition…