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Tech Brief: Leveraging your network to fortify cybersecurity

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Enterprise CIOs and CISOs face a constant barrage of challenges, often leaving them little choice but to rely on best-of-breed products to shore up their organization’s cybersecurity posture. In today’s fast-changing threat landscape, however, that can be a dangerous gamble. Whether you’re trying to modernize your IT, lower your operating costs or improve cybersecurity, how you build your network is often the determining factor in whether you succeed or fail. A new CyberScoop Tech Brief, sponsored by Cisco, explores how taking advantage of modern, sensor-aware servers, switches, routers and security devices not only enables a holistic cybersecurity strategy, but also lowers operating costs and improves performance. Realizing the potential modernization and cybersecurity improvements promised by the passage of the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act calls for agencies and commercial enterprises alike to recognize that the key place to start is with the network. Strategically enabling the security features of existing […]

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Legacy IT makes federal agencies less secure, study says

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Federal agencies that shift money from maintaining outdated legacy IT systems to modernizing them can expect to see fewer cybersecurity incidents — as can the agencies that migrate legacy systems to the cloud or implement strict data governance policies, according to a new academic study. On average, for each 1 percent of its spending that an agency shifts from maintaining legacy systems to buying new ones, it can expect a 5 percent reduction in the number of security incidents, found the authors of the study “Security Breaches in the U.S. Federal Government.” It was written by two academics from the Fox Business School at Temple University and the Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and published last week by the Social Science Research Network. The study also found that federal agencies that migrate their legacy IT systems to the cloud suffer fewer security incidents of improper access. And […]

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