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Are Public Cloud Workloads Good or Bad?

It should be no surprise to anyone that government data networks are under a constant threat of attack. According to a Wired Magazine article (Inside The Cyberattack That Shocked The US Government by Brendan I. Koerner), the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website alone is attacked approximately 10 million times per month. However, the discovery of the April 2015 OPM security breach that compromised the personnel records of 80 million Americans was a wakeup call that something needs to be done.

President Trump’s Presidential Executive Order 13800 mandates all government agencies to adopt the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. Part of the new executive order mandates government networks to operate within a context that supports an Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover approach. This includes all of the network, not just security-focused appliances and solutions.