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IT TRANSFORMATION
The ongoing nature of digital transformation
requires a workload-by-workload analysis of how an agency is going to deliver capabilities to its end users.
are most important to accomplishing the agency’s mission.
As agencies are raising awareness and explaining priorities to their employees, they must also build their IT environments under a secure-by-design methodology. “Secure by design” means that on a 360-degree, multi-dimensional basis, agencies have repeatedly used development and testing environments to ensure that
they have pulled in all the capabilities available to them — whether it’s classic signature-based antivirus software, tools that use algorithms to detect internal and external threats, or artificial intelligence and machine learning. The goal is for agencies to incorporate what they’ve learned during development and testing into the design of their IT-as-a-service capabilities and multi-year strategic plans.
Agencies’ missions, the government’s responsibilities and technology have become inseparable. Therefore, to achieve true transformation, agency leaders must bring together people, processes and technology in a harmonized way.
Steve Harris is senior vice president
and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business.
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