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,…
3 ways federal agencies can optimize and strengthen their user authentication methods
Cloud computing services and applications have surprisingly been around since the late-1990s and have slowly been adopted across federal government agencies since then. But when COVID-19 took the world by storm in 2020, this crawling pace had to change as…
Why the federal government’s lagging MFA adoption rate poses severe cyber risks to agency networks
According to Microsoft’s Vice President of Identity Security, Alex Weinert, only 25 percent of organizations today have adopted multi-factor authentication (MFA) as part of their overall cybersecurity infrastructure. That is a shining statistic when compared to 2017’s adoption rate of…
4 ways agencies can protect themselves from cyber attacks in Microsoft directory services
As technology has evolved, so has the adoption and use of next-generation cloud platforms. Over the years, federal government agencies have adopted a multitude of cloud platforms to facilitate more efficient workflows and to create a more secure environment for…
How the NIST Framework sets out to protect federal agencies’ AD environments
February 2021 was a moment in time where federal agencies were knee deep in modernizing their IT infrastructures to accommodate the digitized new normal of their processes, workflows, and services. But while the federal government was busy digitally transforming their…
Emerging threats against workload identities in Azure AD and what federal agencies should do about it
Throughout the last decade, identity theft has become a gold mine for cybercriminals, due to vulnerabilities that accompany all of the emerging technologies that organizations and individuals use in everyday life. Many people are already aware that theft is a…
12 Privileged Access Management best practices for federal agencies
No matter what risks a federal government agency is facing, you can draw a threat vector from that risk to a privileged account. Privileged accounts are the backbone of any operating agency, so it’s vital that these accounts are protected…
How CISA can assist federal agencies in navigating the “Wild, Wild, West” of cyber defense
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…
How federal agencies can keep up with the evolution of identity supply chains
Three years after COVID-19 forced federal agencies to crank their modernization dials to warp speed, the proliferation and adoption of new technologies, applications, and network solutions are still continuing to spread throughout the federal government. Though these technologies have completely…
How multi-factor authentication is bolstering federal agencies’ cybersecurity postures
As threats to password security have increased in recent years, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has rapidly gained popularity as a method for increasing the assurance of authentication for federal government networks and applications. MFA is important, as it hardens the cybersecurity…
