The amount of geospatial data from sensors, smart phones, social media, drones, and other vehicles is exploding, and traditional analytics are struggling to keep up. To analyze and visualize such data effectively, government agencies are increasingly leveraging GPUs to obtain orders-of-magnitude improvements in speed. New GPU technologies for accelerating structured data and text analytics are enabling analysts to do their work at the speed o...

Agencies looking to drive collaboration and cost savings are embracing SaaS platforms, such as Office 365. Even with careful planning, deploying Office 365 and delivering a fast user and application experience can be a challenge due to the constraints of legacy network and security solutions.TechValidate, on behalf of our partner, Zscaler, conducted a survey across leading global organizations to understand if Office 365 is living up to its tr...

The promise of cloud and mobility is to provide access to key services quickly and comprehensively - any user, any location, any time, any device. Security teams are embracing technologies that ensure productivity while retaining visibility and control, as applications migrate from datacenter to cloud and users are increasingly outside any security perimeter.To clarify this complex topic, NIST has published Draft Special Publication 800-207, d...

In light of recent events, most of the country is now turning to a remote setup very rapidly. As a result, new devices are now establishing remote connections since many employees are connecting their personal computers to the corporate network, making the attack surface bigger than ever before. Compliance, proper network segmentation, and accurate device network access control are extremely challenging for any IT team right now and the attack...

Join Splunk, Forescout, and Carahsoft to see how Forescout provides continuous visibility of connected devices to Splunk to better identify, prioritize, and respond to incidents. The joint integration also enables the getting and storing of Forescout actions in Splunk. Policy-driven actions can be triggered by Splunk and executed through Forescout for immediate incident response. Forescout sends the action results to Splunk to facilitate close...

Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) issued new TIC 3.0 guidance allowing agencies to roll out zero trust direct-to-cloud connections through cloud service providers (CSPs) that meet CISA guidelines. This new guidance helps agencies avoid the challenges of VPN, which include infrastructure exposure and highly latent traffic paths due to traffic being forced to tr...

Join Splunk, Forescout, and Alchemy Global to see how our solution will secure IT service delivery for distributed workforce enablement. With an unprecedented growth in remote connections, our workforce faces a new host of logistical constraints and a larger attack surface than ever before.Before we build an effective remote workforce program, we must ask these questions:How many endpoints are connected at any given time?Are those endpoints co...

Join Zscaler and Thundercat on July 23rd for a live webinar as they discuss how agencies are transforming to cloud and looking to onboard TIC 3.0 as part of IT modernization.Moving to a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is a process, not a single product or tool. This process contains multiple challenges that agencies must solve to achieve the goal of ZTA. Agencies can adopt this process and proactively move towards zero trust by leveraging cloud-...

With 171 controls and five levels of compliance, organizations contracting within the defense industry will need well-considered policies, procedures, and technological safeguards to adequately meet CMMC requirements. Ridge IT Corporation can bring your company into compliance with an innovative portfolio of technology offerings. Our approach leverages technology from Gartner-recognized software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers such as Zscaler to...

As governments and educational institutions strive to meet public demands for access to data-driven services, they face the critical challenge of securing sensitive data against cyber threats. To address this challenge, government and educational institutions need to adopt a modern security approach like Zero Trust. During this webinar, you will hear from industry expert David Cagical, former CIO for the State of Wisconsin, and Matt Singleton,...