GDIT Study Finds Agencies Making Zero Trust Progress
One year after President Joe Biden’s executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity, federal agencies are making steady progress toward their zero trust security goals, according to a new study commissioned by General Dynamics Information Technology. Yet agencies also face several challenges and know there is still more work to do, the researchers found. The
WATCH: AppGate Federal Group’s Greg Touhill on Company Recognition as Leading Zero Trust Provider
Senior writer Amanda Ziadeh catches up with AppGate Federal Group President Greg Touhill to discuss the company’s recent recognition by Forrester Research as a zero trust leader. The recognition was published in the September report, “The Forrester Wave: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q4 2020.” Touhill shares what exactly AppGate was highlighted for in
Cloud, RPA, Zero Trust: FEMA’s Scott Bowman’s Tech Roadmap to Modernization
In his 20 years with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Scott Bowman has seen some big changes — most of them digital to improve efficiencies, but always sticking to the mission. In the beginning, “we definitely didn’t have smartphones. All of our disaster applications from disaster survivors were taken over the phone. We didn’t even
DOJ CIO Joe Klimavicz’s Tech, Security, Workforce Priorities for 2020 and Beyond
In his six years as chief information officer at the Justice Department, Joseph Klimavicz has sought to drive big change. He talks about making “large-scale, complex IT transformations” in a range of areas, with an eye toward improving services, reducing costs and enhancing cybersecurity. “I think we’ve made remarkable progress in each of these areas,”
Cyxtera’s Software-Defined Perimeter Solution Gets Common Criteria Certification
Cyxtera Technologies’ AppGate SDP, a software-defined perimeter solution for speeding up the process to Zero Trust, has reached Common Criteria Certification for operating in security-sensitive or critical systems. This government-driven certification was developed by the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and is recognized by 30 nations. It allows businesses and organizations to
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