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CYBERSECURITY & MODERNIZATION
The push to modernize is a valuable opportunity to take a fresh look at systems and security.
personal information because those partners can only view enough of the data to fulfill their missions.
Learning from the cyber sprint
After the massive Office of Personnel Management breach in 2015, then-CIO Tony Scott took advantage of the opportunity to make fast progress on improving agencies’ security postures.
For the 60-day cybersecurity sprint, a little bit of money was reapportioned to help every agency in the federal government radically accelerate a few primary improvements. One was patching all the weaknesses they knew about, and another was adopting multifactor authentication for privileged users. Agencies overwhelmingly succeeded in both areas.
IT leaders do not need to tackle cybersecurity all at once. In fact, the push for
modernization gives them the opportunity to make incremental progress a regular occurrence. As they are updating their systems, agencies should also be prioritizing and reducing cybersecurity risks one step at a time.
Rob Roy is public-sector chief technology officer at Micro Focus Government Solutions.
Modernized— cyber threat response
At Micro Focus Government Solutions, we support and serve the needs of the US Government.
We help agencies modernize and protect against mission-critical security threats in Operations, Data, Applications, Identity & Access Management, Messaging, and Unified Endpoint Management.
Learn more at
carahsoft.com/innovation/cyber- modernization-microfocusgov
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