Strengthen government cybersecurity with unified threat management

Keeping infrastructure like roads and bridges in good condition is vital to public safety. That’s just as true for digital infrastructure and cybersecurity. It’s not just data that is at risk: Actual lives can be threatened as some attacks have disrupted systems that support emergency services.

Even so, state and local governments have long wrestled with budgetary limits, competing priorities and lack of IT security expertise. According to one report, fewer than 40 percent of states have a dedicated budget line item for cybersecurity. Meanwhile, even large private-sector employers say they face a worsening skills shortage as demand for security expertise continues to grow rapidly. Compounding this problem is the piecemeal approach to security that emerges as organizations adopt different tools from a variety of vendors over time. Security measures that aren’t engineered to work in sync — and the added complexity of keeping them up to date — increase the potential for gaps that bad actors can exploit.

Read the executive brief to see how to protect your agency with a unified threat management solution.