Over the past decade, cybercrime has proven to be one of the greatest threats facing the American public. One can look to the unprecedented Colonial Pipeline attack as a prime example. This cyberattack led to millions of Americans being denied…
5 ways federal government agencies can reduce risk from attack vectors
A data breach can be a catastrophic event for any federal government agency. One way to help curb potential exploits is to get a handle on potential attack vectors. An attack vector is the combination of a bad actor’s intentions…
How federal government agencies are avoiding the pitfalls of cloud migration
This article originally appeared on SteelCloud’s official blog, HERE. It takes a great deal of planning to avoid the pitfalls of cloud migration. The pace of innovation, security, and, quite frankly, the technological threat is quickening. Updating legacy processes and systems has…
SteelCloud COO on why federal government agencies should take full advantage of the commercial cloud
As the federal government continues to ride the waves of digital transformation and network modernization, one decision that many agencies have decided to make has been to migrate their applications, workloads, and services – which have been traditionally managed on-prem…
4 ways federal government agencies are benefitting from application performance optimization
As the waves of digital transformation continue to spread across and reach all corners of the federal government, agencies are hard at work modernizing their systems, networks, and applications, as well as their critical constituent-facing solutions and services. And as…
How Azure Government delivers emerging cloud capabilities at a classified level
When a new cybersecurity, database management, or cloud solution debuts on the commercial market, there is almost always a lengthy waiting period before the technology trickles down into the hands of federal government agencies. Due to the government’s significantly heightened…
DBAs, Data Owners, and the Security Team—Distinguishing the Key Players Who Keep SLED Data Safe
In a previous article on the GovCyberHub, we were joined by Amit Parikh, an Information Management Senior Consultant at Quest Software, who discussed the new reality facing state and local government Database Administrators (DBAs) and explained how advanced workload analytics…
How the U.S. Government Can Stop Cyber Threats Emerging from the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
This article originally appeared on the official DLT Solutions blog. Though the Ukraine-Russia conflict began when the Russian military invaded Ukraine last February, the cybersecurity and cyber warfare elements of this conflict began long before initial combat action. Ukraine was…
Microsoft’s Federal Security CTO on the impact of OMB’s zero trust strategy
Last January, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released M-22-09, a memorandum that set forth the federal government strategy on zero trust adoption, in an effort to reinforce the security and protection of government agencies’ critical systems, networks, and…
Why Digital Transformation is Good for Constituents, but Bad for DBAs
The day-to-day of a database administrator (DBA) working for a state, local, or municipal government or agency has changed significantly in the past few years. The digital transformation initiatives that became incredibly pervasive in the days following the start of…
