Report: Feds more likely to use new tech without considering cybersecurity

Federal Times: Over a third of federal employees surveyed have experienced a data breach in the last year, says a new report from information systems security provider Thales and analyst firm 451 Research, contributing to 96 percent of respondents considering themselves vulnerable to threats targeting sensitive data.

While the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report says that those surveyed claim cybersecurity spending is up (rising to 61 percent from 58 in 2016), the old systems, tight budgets, lack of staff and migration of resources to the cloud continue to make the federal government and its focus of network defenses a prime target for cyber crimes.

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