Federal Insights, January-March 2016.
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Unisys Survey Reveals Concerns about Security and Other Challenges as U.S. Government Agencies Move to Digital Government
Take Charge of Your Security
As government agencies evolve to leverage the Cloud, improve mobile services, expand supply chains, and optimize legacy systems, current strategies to safeguard their enterprises against cyber threats are no longer effective. Increased connectivity offers enormous benefits, but it has exponentially increased the extent and complexity of the cybersecurity risk.

Old approaches that rely on firewalls and monitoring penetration events are missing the mark. The reality is that although the vector may vary, the bad guys ultimately get in. And the larger or more complex the target, the bigger the attack surface and higher the number of entry points they can exploit.

What’s needed is an entirely new approach: micro-segmentation. Instead of building higher, stronger walls and monitoring increasingly massive volumes of data, this method builds on the old segmentation principles, but goes much further. It allows physical networks to be quickly and easily divided into hundreds or even thousands of cryptographically sealed logical micro networks, or micro-segments. So, information is compartmentalized and isolated at the network packet level, with no means of access beyond.

Through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) initiative, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has decreased critical vulnerabilities by 99 percent and cut in half the time it takes to detect problems. The CDM initiative provides capabilities and tools to identify cybersecurity risks on an ongoing basis, prioritize those risks based on potential impacts, and enable mitigation of the most significant problems first. Building on this success, DHS is now beginning phase four of its CDM program, using data encryption, data masking, and micro-segmentation to combat cyber criminals.

Operating at the application and virtual machine level, Unisys Stealth micro-segmentation is a critical component of an effective CDM program. Stealth works:

  • across enterprises and ecosystems
  • in challenging security environments
  • in data centers with new and legacy systems, clouds, IC/SCADA and global mobile

Micro-segmentation is the future. It covers owned as well as ecosystem assets and converges all logical and physical security assets into an easily managed environment. So you can be confident that when the bad guys get in, they’ll be stopped in their tracks and any damage they do will be minimal.

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