With tight budgets and limited resources, local governments face threats like never before. Properly securing assets is expensive and competes with other priorities, which means that modernizing cybersecurity often becomes a futuristic goal. With more grant money available than ever before, many states are looking for ways to work together with local governments to help them to improve their security. What role can a whole-of-state approach pl...

Data is an invaluable resource in developing strategies and enabling ongoing innovation to achieve mission success more efficiently – across all aspects of an agency including operations and customer experience. But to maximize the impact of data, leaders must balance the need for strong cybersecurity with the demands of seamless data flow. How can data governance be effectively created to secure data and allow for its sharing? What tech...

As today’s joint force leaders contend with growing threats and rising international instability, modern and accessible command and control technologies have become essential in maintaining a prepared and dominant military posture in contested environments. Though such a technical and operational baseline has long been the goal of DOD officials, the complexities of building and scaling needed services required for success are persistent....

Cybersecurity has never been more important to securing the nation’s infrastructure and data from cyber threats. Government IT leaders are navigating constant threats of attacks and legacy technology patches in a remote working world. During this biannual series, NextGov and GCN will examine the most important trends in cybersecurity across Federal, State, and Local governments. We’re covering the ins and outs of everything from ha...

Across the federal government, agencies are turning to the cloud to modernize legacy applications, systems and data in order to enable new, innovative ways to meet their mission goals. A strategic focus of migration to the cloud is data governance. Ensuring the usability of data and prioritizing information security are key strategic initiatives across organizations. How can strong data governance be built into an agency’s cloud migratio...

The advancement of cyber threats, sharp increases in supply chain attacks, and widespread compromise of privileged credentials pose persistent risks to government agencies. Without a one-size-fits-all approach and a multitude of applicable technologies and areas to invest, leaders are left juggling cyber tools and competing frameworks in hopes to find the right approach for their agency – both in implementation and financing. Afterall, i...

As today’s DOD leaders contend with growing threats and rising international instability, leveraging innovative intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tools has become essential in maintaining a prepared and dominant military posture. Though a technical and operational baseline has long been the goal of officials, the complexities of implementing cutting-edge technologies and operating systems on previously closed...

Today's public sector IT leaders are challenged by siloed environments, security risks, stalled modernization efforts, and poor customer experiences. They're looking for modern, multi-cloud solutions that can help them deliver a trusted foundation for technical innovation in their agencies.Supported by solutions that offer higher productivity, better security, and lower costs, employees and administrators can modernize applications, secure hyb...

Public cloud – a shared environment that incorporates public sector best operating practices – is designed to constantly evolve to help local government organizations take advantage of new technologies and breakthrough business process innovations. They empower more proactive, automated, strategic, data-driven, and citizen-focused services. SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platforms based on public cloud benefit from best business prac...

Approaches to securing critical tech infrastructure must adapt to evolving threats and changing workplaces. Federal guidance has been issued to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity, with zero trust architectures playing a key role. Whether to protect against ransomware, migrate on-premises resources to the cloud, or streamlining security across disparate departments, embracing a zero trust architecture can create meaningful security imp...