Secure access is not a new challenge for IT operations, but with the accelerated shift to working from home, the need to rapidly scale secure remote access has skyrocketed. The most promising security approaches in place today, like the Cloud Security Alliance's Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) approach, had their start from government approaches. In SDP environments, government data is being accessed more by unmanaged, risky, and potentially...

Ever since the dawn of the internet, its usefulness lies in the data it handles, whether moving it, storing it, or calculating with it. As a result, just as Willie Horton once said he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is,” many of today’s cyber bad actors target agencies’ data because they can monetize it. As a result, cybersecurity is akin to the 20th century Cold War. On the one hand, bad actors ...