Cyber Risk Report: Solutions For State And Local Governments

Cyberattackers have turned their focus to state and local governments for easy payouts, with more than 2,000 government, health care and school systems affected in 2020 alone. Tenable prepares government entities for ransomware attacks and more.

Cyberattackers have turned their focus to state and local governments for easy payouts, with more than 2,000 government, health care and school systems affected in 2020 alone. Tenable prepares government entities for ransomware attacks and more.

Tenable experts explain the reason for this increase in attacks and how Tenable products integrate. Michael Rothschild, senior director of OT solutions at Tenable, says, “The reason that attacks on critical infrastructure is becoming more prevalent is because it’s easy to do … Attackers will go after where they think they can get a payout.”

Tenable combats these bad actors by having a product portfolio that works together. With active directory security, vulnerability security, OT security and more, Tenable creates an ecosystem of trust that works with your existing security products.

Government security systems employing solutions from multiple vendors can be vulnerable, even while meeting compliance standards. Chris Jensen, public sector business development and capture leader, explains, “Every variable you introduce into your security solution is one more opportunity to create divergence between security and compliance. The simpler you can make your environment, the easier it will be to maintain the necessary level of compliance.”

Tenable simplifies security and compliance with powerful tools, such as their on-premises platform, Security Center Continuous View. “It has preconfigured dashboards that can give you a clear instantaneous picture on how you are doing with respect to a particular standard,” Chris says.

On top of powerful visibility and compliance checks, Tenable begins the transition to zero trust security by protecting active directory. Glen Pendly, deputy chief technology officer at Tenable, says, “Visibility is so critically important to solving zero trust. The technology that we provide, within minutes, you’re getting real-time visibility of not only that point in time moving forward, but it maps out the way that everything is configured within your AD environment.”

State and local governments are at risk. Find out how Tenable’s solutions protect against modern threats, maintain changing compliance standards and begin your organization’s journey to zero trust security.