In today’s digital age, technology is rapidly advancing—making it easier for federal government agencies to better serve their constituents and assist their internal workforces in streamlining and facilitating agency workflows and processes. However, these technological leaps have created a massive…
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…
All Roads Lead to Federal Zero Trust
Over the last few years, the federal government has begun to embrace a zero trust approach as the new cybersecurity standard for agencies. Utilizing the latest solutions and best practices, the hope is to bolster federal cybersecurity and create a…
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…
Bolstering Multi-Cloud Security with Identity Management
As organizations adapt to hybrid work and more and more cloud services are deployed, new service entities that collaborate and exchange data without human interaction, such as virtual machines and containers, are proliferating. The growth of these service accounts and…
New Year, New Breaches—Three modern identity attacks insights to know going into 2022
The beginning of a New Year is always a strangely quiet time for government agencies. The holidays have just ended, agency employees are slowly trickling back into work and settling back into their home offices, to sign in and begin…
Four added benefits of identity and access management
The global, dynamic, and interconnected nature of IT enterprises today – and a proliferation of security threats – require protections that limit the damage attackers can do once they’re inside the agency firewall. Knowing that cybersecurity threats are only increasing…
Solid foundations + innovation = stout cybersecurity
Every security professional knows that the adversary has the advantage. We have to find every vulnerability and remediate it, and the enemy only needs to find one vulnerability and exploit it. This asymmetry underlies their economic advantage: finding one vulnerability…
Why multi-factor authentication is essential for IAM
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the art and science of ensuring that someone is who they say claim to be. This ensures that they have the correct level of access to systems and data – enough to do their…
