Government agencies and educational institutions across the globe are accelerating their move toward cloud, SaaS, and customer-first digital experiences. The common denominator of all these initiatives? Data. Specifically, the quality and quantity of data you have, where you store it, how you access it, and how quickly you can find what you need. Data, in other words, is one of … [Read more...] about 5 questions public sector leaders should be asking about their data
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Announcing the public availability of the Cisco Cloud Controls Framework (CCF)
Customers globally are requesting – and often requiring – SaaS providers to demonstrate their commitment to security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy. While attaining global security certifications has become table-stakes for many to do business, it’s no easy feat. Many organizations struggle to keep pace with this resource- and time-intensive process. As the … [Read more...] about Announcing the public availability of the Cisco Cloud Controls Framework (CCF)
Detecting Targeted Attacks on Public Cloud Services with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
The Public Cloud and Security Responsibility Across many businesses, leveraging services offered and hosted by public cloud providers such as AWS proves to be extremely advantageous for both improving operational efficiencies, cost savings, scaling, and for security. For AWS customers, Lambda functions are a great example of this advantage in providing a useful way to execute … [Read more...] about Detecting Targeted Attacks on Public Cloud Services with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
5 ways search can modernize digital experiences in public sector
Customer experience (CX) is a growing field in the public sector. Offices like Technology Transformation Services are charged with designing and delivering a digital government with and for the public. As such, customer experience strategists, user experience designers, technical innovation analysts, and others are integral to modernizing digital experiences and in many cases … [Read more...] about 5 ways search can modernize digital experiences in public sector
Get Started with the Public Beta for Unified Dashboards
During Logz.io’s ScaleUp 2021 user conference, we announced that Unified Dashboards were coming to you soon. And now it’s finally here for anyone to try during the Public Beta.Unified Dashboards will allow Logz.io customers to analyze and filter their logs, metrics, and traces side-by-side on a single monitoring dashboard.Check out our recent blog to learn about why we built … [Read more...] about Get Started with the Public Beta for Unified Dashboards
Don’t Use Public Wi-Fi Without DNS Filtering
Providing public Wi-Fi is a great service to offer your customers as it becomes more and more standard in today's society. I like the fact that I do not have to worry about accessing the Internet while I am away, or spending a lot of money on an international connection, or just staying offline while I am away. With public Wi-Fi, modern life has become a constant connection to … [Read more...] about Don’t Use Public Wi-Fi Without DNS Filtering
Preventing your Cloud 'Secrets' from Public Exposure: An IDE plugin solution
I'm sure you would agree that, in today's digital world, the majority of applications we work on require some type of credentials – to connect to a database with a username/password, to access computer programs via authorized tokens, or API keys to invoke services for authentication. Credentials, or sometimes just referred to as 'Secrets,' are pieces of user or system-level … [Read more...] about Preventing your Cloud 'Secrets' from Public Exposure: An IDE plugin solution
Cisco Talos Advisory on Adversaries Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector
Background Cisco Talos has become aware that an adversary is leveraging Trickbot banking trojan and Ryuk ransomware to target U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers at an increasing rate. Security journalists reported on October 28, 2020 that the adversary was preparing to encrypt systems at “potentially hundreds” of medical centers and hospitals, based on a tip from a … [Read more...] about Cisco Talos Advisory on Adversaries Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector
PoetRAT: Malware targeting public and private sector in Azerbaijan evolves
Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / PoetRAT: Malware targeting public and private sector in Azerbaijan evolves Cisco Talos discovered PoetRAT earlier this year. We have continued to monitor this actor and their behavior over the preceding months. We have observed multiple new campaigns indicating a change in the actor’s capabilities and showing their … [Read more...] about PoetRAT: Malware targeting public and private sector in Azerbaijan evolves
2020 Fal.Con for Public Sector Conference Offered On Demand
The CrowdStrike® 2020 Fal.Con for Public Sector Virtual Cybersecurity Conference was held on June 24 — the second year for this one-day event and the first year it was a completely digital experience. More than 1,000 security professionals attended an exciting array of keynote addresses, breakout sessions and partner tech talks that were streamed online throughout the day. I’m … [Read more...] about 2020 Fal.Con for Public Sector Conference Offered On Demand