This may be leading workers to adopt “ shadow IT,” or using products and services that are not officially approved or endorsed by their IT departments. These new findings not only speak to the challenges our government employees face, but also outline an opportunity for improved innovation and security that can help government employees better achieve their missions. Results from the survey also showed a lack of satisfaction with legacy software, with more than 50% of government workers nationally responding that there are other products and services that could help them do their jobs better. metro area say they have experienced a disruption at work because of a cyberattack. And nearly one-third of surveyed government employees in the D.C. metro area and 338 workers employed by federal, state, or local governments across the country-found that the majority of government employees surveyed reported being “very” concerned about cyberattacks striking their employers in the coming years.

The survey-which polled 2,600 working Americans, includes 600 workers from the D.C. Today, a new survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and commissioned by Google Cloud shows that many government workers echo these concerns. Yet many government agencies continue to rely on the same legacy productivity software.

The SolarWinds breach in 2020, for example, may have cost governments and businesses more than $100 billion and the loss of vital national security information. government systems have interrupted vital work and cost taxpayers billions of dollars. While most of them are still there, doing excellent work, repeated cybersecurity breaches of U.S. I spent the last few years of my time in the government doing my best to modernize this approach to security and supporting the many people who shared this vision. Our policies and capabilities were overly reliant on a perimeter-based approach to defense and introduced layers of friction with tools like VPNs, which inhibited productivity and increased frustration. We didn’t just have legacy systems to deal with we also had a legacy mindset. What I eventually realized was that we were at a disadvantage. government, I spent a great deal of energy working to keep bad actors out of our systems. I was responsible for delivering services and capabilities to about 100 civilian agencies, as well as our critical infrastructure for state and local partners across the country. Prior to joining Google Cloud, I spent 20 years in the public sector serving in various security roles, most recently as the head of the cybersecurity division at the newly established Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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