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This is partially due to the siloed www.AmericanSecurityToday.com nature of government agencies. The DoD, for example, includes many different branches work- ing independently of one another. may also be a contributing factor. March 2019 - Edition 42 The more complex those networks become, and the more applica- tions are moved into the cloud, the harder it can be to monitor It can be challenging to monitor and manage network activity effectively, , especially when some those separate networks, even effectively though an attack on one could data resides in the cloud. directly impact another. Agencies have been performing The increasing complexity of feder- traditional network monitoring al IT networks, including the move for years, but what they have been toward hybrid IT environments, doing may not be sufficient in Courtesy of SolarWinds Federal Cybersecurity Survey 23

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