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Three Strategies for Fighting the Growing Issue of Insider Threats

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By Chris LaPoint, VP of Product Management, SolarWinds

Altruistic hackers are slowly becoming more prominent in pop culture, specifically in TV shows in which they are young geniuses using their skills to help those in need. Their derring-do involves taking control of everything from airplanes to traffic signals, all in the name of good. And they do it with style.

No Network, No Services

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Essential Network Monitoring Needs for Today’s Complex Federal IT Infrastructure

By Chris LaPoint, SolarWinds

It was all about the network

Feds are Ignoring Insider Threats to Cybersecurity, New Survey Reveals

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One of the biggest threats to the security of government data and systems doesn’t come from rogue hackers or nations, it comes from within. As we revealed in The 4 Biggest Cybersecurity Threats of 2014, the careless and untrained government employees represent the top source of security threats to federal agencies.

Technically News - 7/18

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This week in Technically News: Three Types of Cybersecurity Threats (and two employees) to Worry About Most; Survey Suggests Federal Network Complexity is Limiting Data Center Consolidation; Feds Pursue Cloud Forensics Standards; U.S. Army Grants Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) for 21 SolarWinds IT Management Products

Technically News – 6/27

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This week in our government IT news round-up: Successful Software Projects Are No Accident; Symantec Launches Cybersecurity Program to Bridge Workforce Gap; CIA Information Chief Talks Cloud Computing, Culture Clash at Amazon Event; 5 Tips for Building BYOD Programs for Local Government; Chris LaPoint on Info Security and Automation in Government IT

Managing the Unpredictable Human Element of Cybersecurity: A SolarWinds Infographic

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SolarWinds recently published an interesting infographic on cybersecurity based on a series of surveys they did with the federal IT community.

People Are Federal IT’s Biggest IT Security Challenge: An Interview with SolarWinds’ VP Product Management

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A couple weeks ago, SolarWinds released their newest federal IT cybersecurity survey. Chris LaPoint, VP Product Management, SolarWinds, was kind enough (as always) to talk with us about their findings and provide context to them.

A Recap of the World's Largest Health IT Conference

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Two weeks ago, I attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2014 Conference and Exhibition at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. DLT partners exhibiting were Oracle, Symantec, SolarWinds, Informatica, and NetApp. I visited each of them to find out what they had to say about health IT.

IT Automation in the Public Sector: An Interview with SolarWinds’ VP of Product Management

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A few weeks ago, SolarWinds released the results of their 2014 public sector survey on IT automation, so we sat down with Chris LaPoint, SolarWinds’ VP of Product Management, to discuss the findings.

The Best Ways to Eliminate Boredom and Terror on Your Network: Part 3

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The first three practices are all about helping you identify all systems under management, standardizing the way you manage these devices, and protecting them from harmful changes. Let’s now build upon this by talking about the remaining two and why they are important. These practices support the thesis that you can eliminate the leading cause of network downtime: simple human error.