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From the state to federal level, cybersecurity within government spaces is a crucial part of daily operations, and failure to anticipate evolutions in criminal behavior and tactics can be devastatingly costly. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found that over the past year, cyber incidents have impacted many companies, non-profits, and other organizations of all sizes and across multiple sectors of the economy. According to the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index for 2022, server access attacks were the most common type against the public sector in 2021. Government targeting was global, with 50% in Asia, 30% in North America, and 10% each for the Middle East and Africa.
Com segurança nacional, finanças e confiança pública em jogo, as entidades governamentais são um alvo comum para ataques cibernéticos. Para melhorar a segurança cibernética e a resiliência, a CISA observa que os líderes seniores devem estar engajados e cientes dos riscos cibernéticos para suas organizações e adotar uma abordagem proativa para se preparar para a probabilidade e o impacto de um comprometimento potencialmente prejudicial.
Embora não haja uma solução abrangente para segurança cibernética infalível, saber como identificar e implementar a combinação certa de soluções seguras em seu ecossistema digital existente é fundamental para evitar uma possível falha catastrófica em todo o sistema. Mas quais recursos você deve procurar ao comprar software e soluções baseadas em nuvem que atendam à Ordem Executiva (EO) sobre segurança cibernética e mantenham a abordagem de segurança em várias camadas necessária para proteger dados confidenciais?
Grandes bancos de dados contendo informações altamente confidenciais tornam as entidades governamentais particularmente atraentes para hackers. Um ataque bem-sucedido contra um banco de dados do governo pode conceder a um criminoso um grande pagamento de dados extremamente confidenciais que eles podem usar para cometer vários outros crimes posteriormente. Além disso, a largura de banda limitada para detectar e resolver violações de segurança em tempo hábil fornece aos cibercriminosos amplos pontos de entrada e tempo para causar danos significativos antes que a lacuna de segurança possa ser identificada e corrigida.
Cyberattacks can take many forms and each breach, no matter how small, can have a catastrophic ripple effect that can take a long time to rectify and put personal data, supply chains, and critical infrastructure at risk. Even simple mistakes like losing a hard drive or misplacing a device with access to classified databases can be the perfect opportunity for bad actors to gain unlimited access to names, addresses, social security numbers, and other sensitive data.
The Covid-19 pandemic increased vulnerabilities for many government and health organizations that led to ransomware being downloaded by unwitting parties onto multiple personal, hospital, and government-owned devices. This granted hackers the ability to access restricted documents, patient information, government-held data, and even bank accounts. In 2021, a phishing campaign was sent through the email marketing platform Constant Contact, in which cybercriminals masqueraded as representatives from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). These emails were sent to over 3,000 individual accounts within 150 organizations worldwide and contained malicious URLs and malware that, when clicked, could enable the hackers to steal sensitive data and infect other computers within a shared network.
In the perhaps most famous government-related cyberattack in recent history, information technology firm SolarWinds was targeted by hackers in March of 2020 who injected malicious code into the company’s routine software updates that were then distributed throughout all installed systems. The breach went undetected for months and exposed their customer base, which includes the United States Department of Homeland Security and the Treasury Department among others. The efforts to repair the damage will be an extremely expensive and time-consuming process, potentially taking years to understand the full impact.
The right technology can provide countless opportunities to streamline workflows, store and reference extensive documentation and records, and free up employee time, but security needs to be a critical deciding factor when shopping for new solutions. Here are a few key security features that government agencies should look for and prioritize when choosing new technology for their organization.
Qualquer solução que você introduza em sua pilha de tecnologia atual não deve interferir nas operações diárias, mas, idealmente, deve se integrar a elas de maneira perfeita e segura. As melhores soluções são aquelas que não exigem que os funcionários pulem de aplicativo em aplicativo para realizar uma tarefa. Cada nova senha para rastrear ou programar para monitorar pode apresentar novos riscos de segurança, portanto, quanto menos plataformas forem necessárias para executar fluxos de trabalho normais, melhor.
The best solutions list all of their partners and integrations either on their website or in their discovery briefing. Carefully considering your current tools, your goals, and how a new solution will integrate and not only enhance your current system, but also add to your security.
Governado pelo Departamento de Segurança Interna dos EUA, o Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) fornece aos provedores de tecnologia uma abordagem padronizada para garantir a segurança de suas ofertas de serviços em nuvem. Embora essa autorização se aplique apenas a softwares que armazenam dados na nuvem, com muitas soluções locais herdadas, agora oferecendo SaaS, a autorização do FedRAMP deve ser um requisito mínimo para a tecnologia que será usada por entidades governamentais.
FedRAMP authorization ensures that a technology provider has met rigorous compliance and security standards set by the FedRAMP Program Management Office (PMO) for properly protecting federal data stored in commercial cloud service providers. By narrowing down your search to only FedRAMP authorized solution providers, you can confidently search for the right solution that can help you securely achieve your information management goals.
Com vários níveis de autorização de segurança disponíveis para funcionários do governo, a capacidade de permitir que membros-chave da equipe estabeleçam regras de segurança baseadas em perfil e permitam ou desativem o acesso a determinadas informações no nível do usuário é um recurso valioso. Recursos robustos de governança e gerenciamento de segurança permitem que você crie e aplique políticas de segurança a usuários e grupos de usuários, criando uma maneira simples e poderosa de aprimorar a segurança.
This is especially important in multi-tenant cloud solutions, where a software’s primary infrastructure is being used by multiple customers with any number of user accounts within that main customer account. An example of a multi-tenant solution and its security is Netflix, where a single platform is used globally, but each customer account can set up custom profiles with various levels of permissions for each user, such as parents limiting what their kids can watch when logged into their unique profile. With customizable profiles, you can control access to sensitive material at a granular level.
As a leading FedRAMP authorized cloud-based document management system (DMS), security and compliance measures are built into every aspect of our platform. We are committed to providing government entities with an easier way to securely store, manage, search, and share information within their organization.
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