Government organizations are working hard to do more with less, consolidating data centers and striving to deliver more services online to help lower operating costs and comply with federal regulatory mandates.
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Agency caulk: How a data leakage focus closes the holes opened by end-users
Government Security News: For years, agencies took the same approach to information security as they did for physical security -- they focused on locking down the perimeter, using firewalls and routers and VPNs. The objectives centered on external threats.
But technology soon became ubiquitous in our daily lives. Government workers began using technologies in the office that they first adopted at home, like e-mail and IM, and a few years later, file transfer services, flash drives, even live streaming video. All surfaced new risks to security coming not from external hackers, but from earnest, most often, well-meaning internal users.
