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The release of the 2024 White House budget proposal demonstrates the administration’s emphasis on enhancing and modernizing the federal government’s cybersecurity posture.

The personal identifiable information (PII) of over 1 billion Chinese citizens has been hacked, according to an anonymous user of an online cybercrime forum who has attempted to sell the entire 23-terabyte database for 10 Bitcoin, equivalent to just over $200,000.

When the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OFCIO) replaced the Cloud First policy in 2019 with the more long-term, forward-looking, and practicality-driven Cloud Smart strategy, the goal was to help government agencies achieve additional savings, efficiency, and security at scale.

For government agencies, efficiency is king. With the growing need to synchronize data across systems, modernize legacy platforms, and deliver at scale, agencies are rushing to find comprehensive cloud solutions that meet their mission objectives. But this patchwork of services can inhibit collaboration and drag on operational budgets.

Downtime, data loss, and system failure are all tale-tell signs of a breach or cybersecurity incident. As cyber criminals use more and more sophisticated technologies to chip away at the best-laid cybersecurity plans, these incidences are happening with greater frequency across both private and public enterprises – including the U.S. Federal government.

FedRAMP has published an updated Threat-Based Risk Profiling Methodology White Paper (and an accompanying dataset on FedRAMP’s GitHub repository) that delineates changes in the way risk management decisions are made ac