By Mike Shrader
Feb 12, 2021
The pandemic forced government agencies to adapt rapidly. During the past 12 months, government IT teams have been busy enabling remote work, implementing cloud migration and digital transformation projects and securing an ever-expanding perimeter. Yet while 2020 ushered in significant change from a federal IT perspective, it’s merely the beginning.
Mega-trends like elastic cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things were converging with dramatic effect before the pandemic accelerated adoption. The forced mass shift to remote work simply sped up a transformation that was already underway, making many new technologies non-negotiable. As a result, the shifts that started in 2020 will snowball in 2021 and beyond. Here are five tech trends that all federal IT pros should have on their radar.
By Lauren C. Williams
NOTE: This article first appeared on FCW.com.
The defense industry base was pummeled with new cybersecurity vulnerabilities in 2020, increasing the contractors supply chain risk, according to a new industry report.
The National Defense Industry Association recently released its 2021 Vital Signs report, in partnership with Govini, addressing key areas that affect the overall health of the defense industry base, including issues like information security, demand, productivity, workforce diversity and financial performance.
Overall industrial security, which includes threats to information security and intellectual property took a hit, scoring 56 out of a possible 100 points, according to the report, which evaluated scores from 2018 through 2020.
White House names leader for SolarWinds hack response after criticism February 11 After a congressional letter urging the establishment of a singular official to lead the federal response to a Russian cyber breach, the Biden administration has named a top National Security Council official. WASHINGTON Reacting to senators’ criticism of a disorganized response to a massive government hack, the White House said a top cybersecurity adviser is leading the recovery. The news Wednesday that Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber, is in charge of responding to the Russian breach pleased Senate Intelligence Committee leaders, who called the effort disjointed a day earlier and have pushed for more information about federal cybersecurity.
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Federal Trade Commission Updates HSR Thresholds, February 4, 2021, David Shafer
The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (HSR) requires that certain mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures be cleared by the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice if they exceed certain valuation and monetary thresholds.
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Government cloud computing has been taken over by AWS and Microsoft, who ve locked up the market.
Standing out and winning big deals means investing in software, AI, and security capabilities.
Analysts say using multiple cloud providers is increasingly normal, but management is an issue.
As the pandemic forced companies to quickly adapt to remote work and provide the tools to enable workers to do so, the federal government did too accelerating its spend on cloud-based tools and services to nearly $900 million, according to analysts.