Data-Centric Security: Risks & Emerging Threats in Government

Gartner predicts that more than 80 percent of organizations have failed to develop a consolidated data security policy across silos, leading to potential noncompliance, security breaches and financial liabilities. Recent White House cybersecurity policies and congressional legislation mandate that federal agencies implement capabilities to protect high value assets and sensitive information and to encrypt or otherwise render indecipherable to unauthorized users the data stored on or transiting agency information systems within the next year.

We’ll Discuss:

• Delineate the current cyber security environment government faces today.

• Describe key learning points from past high-profile breaches and how agencies should respond moving forward.

• Explore new and emerging threats and how breaches are occurring at the data-level.

• Explain the shift from network perimeter to data-centric security.

• Define data-centric security and its role in protecting government information.

• Review the surge of cyber threats from insider threats and how to prevent them.