Modernizing Federal Government Data Protection
The State of Federal Government Cybersecurity
Government operations, public services, policy decisions, and other functions are all driven by highly distributed data stored on-premises and in hybrid multi-cloud environments. To counter adversaries in a post-quantum future, government entities must speed up the adoption of new data protection strategies and tactics as part of their modernization efforts.
Why now? The threat is real. The AES 256 encryption schemes used in most government and enterprise systems are ripe for decryption by nation states like China. Legacy data monitoring and management tools joined by swivel chairs do not adequately address governments’ current or future data security, resilience, and portability needs. Nor do they provide visibility and control across the entire data ecosystem.
Legacy backup/recovery, SIEM, ... Read more