Monthly Archives: December 2024

CyberSmart 2024: Keeping Up with the Pace of AI at the State Level

Texas government officials and an industry expert discuss shifts in policies, security and risk as AI advances at an accelerated rate. According to Moore’s law, the speed and capability of computers are expected to double every two years. This means new technologies — and challenges — can be introduced at the same rate. To keep up with [...]

Automation as a Cybersecurity Resource (E180)

Managing vast amounts of data, reducing alert fatigue, and improving threat detection can all be accomplished with automation. This week on Feds At the Edge, we have three experts in automating cybersecurity response to provide guidance on best practices to deploy automation. They highlighted the need to establish a valid baseline for expected network behavior to identify deviations effectively, [...]

How to Defend Your Expanding Attack Surface (E179)

SaaS (Software as a Service) applications, due to their ease of launch and proliferation, have created a “perfect storm” for attackers, and a significant challenge for cybersecurity professionals. Organizations with over 1,000 employees typically use 150+ SaaS applications, often unmanaged, which expands the attack surface and poses a unique threat to entities like the federal government.This week on Feds At [...]

Protecting Critical Infrastructure (E178)

This week on Feds At the Edge, we are revisiting our conversation on looking at the protection of Operational Technology (OT), critical hardware on premises. Traditionally separated from IT systems by air gaps, OT is now increasingly managed by IT departments due to the convergence of IT and OT. Few realize that OT has federal compliance regulations, just like [...]

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