Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, cyberattacks have become increasingly frequent and sophisticated, looking to leverage a changing IT landscape that resulted as government agencies and their IT teams worked to enable the “new normal” of a distributed workforce.…
Improving Cyber Situational Awareness with Compliance Automation
Today’s federal government and military are facing workforce shortages and vacancies in many important positions. However, none of these vacancies are as potentially harmful to the security of our nation as the shortages that exist in our federal cybersecurity workforce.…
When it comes to security, not all cloud providers are equal
All federal government agencies, including the DoD, have been required to adhere to certain compliance requirements. These requirements are meant to inject consistency and confidence in the security of a cloud provider solution. And security is top of mind for…
Compliance – is it becoming too big of a thing?
You have heard it enough to make you aim a fire extinguisher at your firewall: “compliance does not mean security.” Compliance work can consume up to 70 percent of security budgets in federal government agencies, and it is common to…
Security and compliance – they’re not the same thing
News Flash: Being compliant doesn’t mean you’re secure, any more than implementing security guarantees that you’re compliant. That’s right, compliance does not equal security. Compliance and security are separate and distinct goals. So, what is the difference? Compliance requires that you meet…
