The Imperative for Government Agencies Given the scale of highly sensitive citizen data they maintain, federal agencies stand to benefit most from advanced human-centric defenses. However, state, county and municipal governments and higher education institutions are already seeing added benefits from leveraging powerful solutions: The City of Aurora, Colorado, struggled with high spam volumes, limited visibility into phishing attacks and lengthy response times. After adopting a highly advanced, automated email- security approach, and other tools, the city gained “optics into email threats that we never had before,” according to its CISO. It also stopped targeted ransomware attacks and reduced spam and bulk mail to zero. The Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services faced various challenges in meeting regulatory and e-discovery requirements through archiving. After deploying intelligent compliance solutions, the department is now able to easily access employees’ communications, including the mailboxes of employees who have left the organization. Princeton University needed to migrate multiple email platforms to the cloud while ensuring day[1]to-day operations and reliable communications between students, faculty, and staff. Proofpoint moved them to a secure email relay that provided the means to maintain the integrity of large volumes of outbound email
while giving administrators necessary spam and malware detection and filtering capabilities. Regardless of where government agencies are in their IT modernization journeys, agency leaders can build more resilient security postures by acknowledging that humans are both the primary target and the first line of defense. Focusing on understanding and safeguarding human behavior, supported by intelligent technology, is the critical next step in protecting public data and ensuring the continuity of vital government services in an increasingly hostile digital world. This special report was produced by Scoop News Group for FedScoop and sponsored by Proofpoint.
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