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Security: Federal Agencies Focus on Security of their Data Centers
When asked to grade themselves on how well they’ve secured their IT infrastructure, nearly three-quarters of federal agencies gave themselves either an ‘A’ or ‘B’. Despite that, the agencies also admit that there are areas of security where they’re lacking is with endpoint protection, mobile device management and with cloud security. Two-thirds of the agencies have concerns about their cybersecurity and the security of data in their data centers.
Steve Hoffman, vice president, regional sales, Federal, Palo Alto Networks, said that “many agencies have focused security efforts at the perimeter. But, as we consider increasingly sophisticated cyber security attacks, all government agencies need a platform approach to protect the heart of their network – the data center – while safely enabling business applications. They need to be able to correlate known and new threats and take preventative action, not just detect and remediate.”
Rick Howard, chief security officer at Palo Alto Networks, told TechTarget CloudSecurity that “I think the federal government has generally been about 10 years behind the private sector in terms of adopting new technology. Some agencies don’t allow mobile devices at all, and some are just beginning to dip their toes in mobile and BYOD.”
Top data security concerns among federal agencies include:
- Advanced Targeted Attacks (ATAs)/Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)/zero-day attacks (58 percent)
- Malware on host servers (55 percent)
- Network viruses (49 percent)
- Unauthorized device access (47 percent)
- Denial-of-Service attacks (DoS) (37 percent)
Hi, very interesting post.It’s very helpful those people which have security system.i appreciate your effort. thanks. . .
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Aliya
A great step taking by federal agencies to secure their Data Centers because as we all know how fast cyber crime is increasing day by day.
Good Luck.
Hey, your post is good for security center.