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…
Ransomware and SLED – Why K-12 institutions and municipalities are juicy targets for hackers
This article originally appeared on TD Synnex’s official blog, HERE. Ransomware attacks against K-12 educational institutions have been on the rise in recent years, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken notice. School networks have become juicy…
3 ways data optimization can enhance your federal agency’s data backups
As federal government agencies are increasingly under pressure to back up and recover data quickly, accurately and within budget, data growth in the cloud continues to make backup and recovery increasingly complex. Backing up all your data is a challenge…
Federal data backups (Part 2) – How government agencies can build, document, and test their backup and recovery strategies
Last time on the GovCyberHub, we explored the first four steps of our seven-step guide that your government agency can use to inform your organization’s data backup strategy, going over how to effectively evaluate and assess your data, risks, goals,…
Data backup strategies (Part 1) – An essential step-by-step guide for federal government agencies
A data backup strategy is intended to help ensure your government agency is prepared in case of a severe outage or disaster. Floods, fires, blackouts, malware, cyberattacks and natural disasters are the ones that worry IT administrators most, but what…
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…
3 ways SAP monitoring solutions are boosting mission success for government agencies
For most government agencies, SAP® applications are mission critical. Yet, SAP performance management is still notoriously complicated and unreliable. That’s why it’s critical for agencies’ IT teams to prioritize the monitoring of the SAP landscape with solutions that will not…
9 reasons why federal government agencies need identity governance and administration
This article originally appeared on One Identity by Quest’s official blog, here. While government agency networks continue to grow and increase their number of network users, access points, permissions, and privileges, their cyberattack surfaces are inevitably going to expand alongside…
