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Courtesy of SolarWinds Federal Cybersecurity Survey
high-level employees), or “baiting” cyberthreats, and like any army,
(bribing employees in return for in- they need weapons.
weapons .
formation or credentials) scams.
In this case, that means tools for IT
This type of knowledge sharing can administrators to automatically
go a long way toward addressing the mitigate and remediate attacks,
attacks ,
insider threat problem,
problem , which a re- track down threats to their points
cent SolarWinds Federal Cyberse- of origin, and understand who’s
curity Survey found to be a leading behind the incidents.
cause of security threats.
Unfortunately, that’s easier said
Technology as a Defense Mech- than done. Indeed, the OMB’s risk
anism
report said 38% of federal cyber-
An agency’s employees are the incidents in 2018 didn’t have a
army leading the charge against known attack vector.
vector .
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