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Secure and rapid modernization takes innovation from all sides
Across all levels of government, IT teams were forced to quickly adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to securely connect their newly remote workforce to data and applications, and to better align security controls, access and operations.
Digital transformations – and the required risk management decisions — that might have taken months or years in the past were now requiring deployment timelines of days or weeks. To achieve these rapid shifts, IT teams that once worked in silos are collaborating much more closely – network administration, security, etc.
Today, networks are increasingly becoming disparate – data is distributed across on-prem data centers and many flavors of cloud. Remote employees connect from a variety of locations and devices. As the traditional network perimeter disappears, the attack surface expands – bringing new security headaches.
The disruptions are unlikely to dissipate anytime soon, and the only path forward is continued community-based…
