Presenting the State of Cybersecurity Infographic underwritten by Symantec and produced by Fedscoop, which highlights the responses of more than 200 government employees polled recently in FedScoop’s 2013 Cybersecurity Survey.
Cybersecurity is still a major concern across the federal government, according to the findings. More than half of the 200-plus government employees polled said cybersecurity was “high priority” among their agency’s current IT initiatives. And employees are looking to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for guidelines on continuous monitoring and securing mobile platforms and cloud software. More than two-thirds of respondents said continuous monitoring would have the most influence on cybersecurity moving forward, but only 38 percent felt their agency had a process in place to address continuous monitoring. Moving forward, the largest barrier to better cybersecurity that government employees identified is personnel and training issues. Still, nearly half of those surveyed were confident in their agencies security posture.
See the full results below.
