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The Cybersecurity Ransomware Threat and Data Storage Implications
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month – the perfect time to learn more about different potential threats, and how to best protect your agency from them. In late August, I participated in a...
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Layered Data Protection Strategy: Keeping our Military Health Information Secure
As military healthcare organizations increase their use of technology to improve care delivery, they also must keep patient information highly available, protected, and secure. The challenge is that...
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Front and Center: The Encryption Debate
This week, Amit Yoran, President, RSA, testified before the United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on an Oversight and Investigations hearing entitled, “Deciphering the...
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The Innovation Runway
Cyber attacks are inevitable – and, according to a Data Protection Survey, public sector organizations are far more likely to suffer disruptions than commercial businesses. In fact, compared to any...
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See You at the Summit
Please join EMC and Carahsoft at the EMC Federal Summit, an event focused on cybersecurity, Big Data, Federal Enterprise hybrid cloud, and data protection – November 18 at the JW Marriott in...
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Modern Data Protection: Why Hybrid Environments are Most Secure
Does automation and transitioning to the cloud go hand in hand? Automation and orchestration provide organizations with incredible flexibility by drastically reducing time spent on manual processes....
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Modern Data Protection: A Retrofit Isn’t Always the Answer
We’ve all seen the headlines. Despite FISMA, FedRAMP, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Federal cyberattacks continue to mount. National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, particularly during a year...
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Let’s Take a (Cyber) Drive – Improving Federal Data Protection
There are many varied cyber security efforts in place to help protect agencies’ data – programs like FISMA, FedRAMP, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Even with these in place, stopping cyber...
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Blurred Lines – A Theme for the Public and Private Sectors
I recently had an opportunity to speak to a group of cyber security leaders from across industry and government who had gathered at the Army Cyber Institute in West Point, N.Y. Much of the day was...
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If a Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words, How About 30 Million Pictures?
Picture this – there is one surveillance camera for every 10 people in the U.S. – that’s close to 30 million cameras, and growing. As Feds experience a swelling flood of video data, the question looms:...
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Real-time Actionable Information Sharing – A Mission Critical Capability in...
In April 18, 1775, Boston and a soon to be fledgling nation faced a certain threat against a massive attack surface originating from thousands of miles away via the sea. At the onset of the American...
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Goulden Outlines EMC II Strategy
David Goulden, CEO of EMC Information Infrastructure, outlined EMC’s strategy in storage, flash, data protection, converged infrastructure, enterprise hybrid cloud, and security analytics at a forum...
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Safety First
You probably wouldn’t leave your house without locking the doors. Or ride a motorcycle without a helmet. And you most certainly wouldn’t leave your agency’s data unprotected. What do these scenarios...
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RSA Responds to Executive Order on Cybersecurity
President Obama and leaders in government and industry discussed cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University last week. As part of the summit, President Obama signed a new Executive...
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RSA – Protecting the Federal Government in the Digital Universe
The holidays have passed, and we have all gotten a little bigger – too much food, too many desserts. But that’s nothing compared to how fast data is growing. The EMC-sponsored IDC Digital Universe...
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Video Surveillance at the Edge
Did you know the video surveillance equipment market is expected to grow from about $15B in 2014 to nearly $26B in 2018? IHS Technology and many other analyst firms have the surveillance market growing...
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The Intelligence Community Runs on (Shared) Data
By John M. Custer, Director, Federal Missions and Programs, EMC The intelligence community (IC) runs on data – from information on cyber threats to details on emerging political unrest. National...
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Acronym Alliance: DoD, DISA, UC APL, and VMAX
By Mike Walsh, Department of Defense Lead at EMC DoD, DISA, UC APL, VMAX. Much more than alphabet soup, this acronym alliance means new procurement efficiency for DoD enterprise-class storage. And,...
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Nice Shot: Healthcare Gets a Boost
By Audie Hittle, CTO Federal, EMC Isilon I know we just finished March, but what I’m about to discuss isn’t Madness – Federal executives focused on healthcare are looking at significant advancements in...
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Data Protection in the Software-Defined Government Agency
By Karen DelPrete, EMC Federal As Federal agencies look for ways to become more efficient, many are turning to software-defined enterprises, as my colleague Kyle Keller so eloquently outlined in his...
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