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Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Jim Hansen where he discusses some ideas on improving agency security, including helping your staff develop cyberskills and giving them the tools to successfully prevent and mitigate cyberattacks. Data from the…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting blog that reviews the fundamental steps every federal IT pro should take to create a strong security foundation. I agree with the author that an overarching plan that encompasses multiple layers of security can serve as the most…
Here’s an interesting blog about the Internet of Things and battlefield advances. The internet of things (IoT) is advancing into the theater of war and becoming the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT). Planning for the IoBT The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is devising ways to turn inanimate and innocuous objects,…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting blog about the need to keep a continued focus on security. I can’t agree more about training and security checks as a useful method of keeping staff on their guard. I’d add that an incident response plan is a useful and often…
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering & Global CTO Last year, in SolarWinds’ annual cybersecurity survey of federal IT managers, respondents listed “careless and untrained insiders” as a top cybersecurity threat, tying “foreign governments” at 48 percent. External threats may be more sensational, but for many federal…
After the network perimeter is locked down, servers are patched, and password policies enforced, end-users themselves are the first line of defense in IT security. They are often the target for a variety of attack vectors making them the first step of triage when a security incident is suspected. Security awareness…
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