Over the years, federal systems have taken on a Rube Goldberg approach, customized by humans who may think radically differently from each other, to respond to a specific kind of workflow inherent in an individual case. After decades of this, you get systems that are siloed with unique methods of doing the same activity.In this week’s episode of Feds at [...]
Did you know that 80% of attacks companies like Akamai Technologies are seeing involve API? What’s an API? What once was a quick way to integrate systems but minimally used, now has exploded onto federal networks by the thousands thanks to the popularity of cloud use. Why worry? APIs are small and embedded and could be as minimal as [...]
Agencies and members of industry share the benefits and best practices of adopting a data-driven cybersecurity program. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program was first introduced in 2012 to provide a dynamic approach to strengthening government networks’ cybersecurity. Today, it includes new cybersecurity tools, integration services and dashboards that help agencies [...]
Government and industry are working together to leverage the capabilities of O-RAN with 5G, while overcoming interoperability and standardization challenges. The Department of Defense has adopted advanced telecommunication capabilities to support a variety of new technologies including creating private networks for the military, integrating 5G capabilities, improving supply chain logistics and more. Strengthening and innovating communications in [...]
Large organizations, whether public or private, all have challenges in making the digital transformation. Today, we sit down with public and private sector leaders who have had success in managing to make large, state-based systems adapt to today’s world of rapid change. Ajay Gupta, Chief Digital Transformation Officer for California’s DMV shares his thoughts on the benefits to customizable [...]
As the DOD works with industry to adopt 5G networks, prototyping and sandboxing 5G capabilities can bolster adoption and innovation. The Department of Defense is eager to build 5G capabilities to create secure private networks accessible in any battlespace, anywhere the department is deployed. These capabilities can also help with real-time data collection from all sources and [...]
Originally designed to thwart minor malicious codes, Security Operations Centers (SOC’s) have evolved over the last 50 years what they are today; centers that provide 24 hour protection, 365 days of the year to for key government organizations. Even so, the profusion of threat vectors prove to be a challenge and many SOC’s will need to upgrade in order [...]