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Sixty-eight percent percent of those surveyed “The Report on Federal IT Modernization,”
added that they are concerned about potential issued by the American Technology Council in
data breaches stemming from the cloud.
December, directs agencies to put a new focus
on security at the data level, as opposed to
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the perimeter.
While the security challenges faced by fed-
eral agencies and large enterprises vary,
one point remains constant: protecting crit-
ical data must be a priority for both federal
and commercial organizations.
IT modernization and cloud de-
ployments go hand-in-hand
A data-centric security approach is needed
largely because of the growing use of com-
mercial cloud services.
According to the 2018 report, nearly half (45%)
of U.S. federal respondents used more than five
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) vendors and
nearly half (48%) used more than 100 Software-
as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
In May 2017, the Trump administration
issued Executive Order 13800, “Strengthen- Over two-thirds (72%) of respondents ex-
pressed concerns about increased vulnerabil-
ing the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks
ities from shared infrastructures, followed by
and Critical Infrastructure.”
The federal government’s push for IT mod-
ernization – one that has spanned multiple
administrations – is also driven in part by
concerns about the cost and difficulty of de-
fending outdated legacy systems.
custodianship of encryption keys (62%) and
security breaches in the cloud (68%).
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