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Symantec Government Online User Group

Public Group | Founded: 19 Oct 2009 | Serving 14 members
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Welcome to the Symantec Government Online User Group. This is an area for users to exchange information and ideas relating to the Federal Government, State & Local Government, and Defense & Intelligence.

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New event 16 May 2013
MeganI posted: EDGE Summit
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center Tue, 11 June, 2013 - 8:30 - 15:00 EDT Join leading eDiscovery experts at the 2013 EDGE
New blog entry 07 May 2013
Mike Maxwell posted: Beautiful, Terrible IT Consolidation
* This article originally ran on StateScoop on May 7, 2013. Depending on which state CIO you ask (or even which time of day you ask him/her), consolidation is either the best or the worst thing that's ever happened to government IT. On the one hand, those virtual mac
New blog entry 03 May 2013
tiffany_jones posted: Cyber Security Trends and Threats
Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to an esteemed group of people at the Fordham Law Center on National Security.  My topic revolved around the latest Cyber Security Trends and Threats, relying on stats from Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report (just released last month).  
New blog entry 01 May 2013
Mike Maxwell posted: The Big Reveal: State Government’s 2013 Cyber Threat Levels Explained
* This article originally ran on StateScoop on April 30, 2013.   Each year, Symantec releases its Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), which recounts—in exhaustive detail—a summation of the previous year’s cybersecurity actions, trends, threats, and opportunities. (
New blog entry 18 Apr 2013
gschumm posted: Symantec Collaborates with National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Recently a few of my colleagues and I had the opportunity to participate in the National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership (NCEP) partner signing ceremony for the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). Established in 2012 through a partnership between NIST, the State of Maryla
New blog entry 10 Apr 2013
darci_hunt posted: Symantec Sponsors the SANS Institute 20 Critical Security Controls Survey
The Critical Security Controls (CSC's) are being adopted by federal and state agencies in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere, to increase visibility into advanced threats, to shore up defenses, and ultimately for benchmarking and to improve risk posture. To increase the limited informatio
New event 10 Apr 2013
MeganI posted: Symantec Government Technology Summit
Walter E. Washington Convention Center Thu, 09 May, 2013 - 8:00 - 14:30 EDT Save the Date for the Symantec Government Technology Summit 2013
New event 22 Mar 2013
LeslieMiller posted: Bring Your Own Risk: Protecting Confidential Information on Mobile Devices
Webcast Thu, 04 April, 2013 - 2:00 - 3:00 EDT   Register Now!   The MS-ISAC invites you to join us  for t
New blog entry 21 Mar 2013
Mike Maxwell posted: Through a Handset Darkly: Grasping the BYOD Security Paradigm Shift
* This article originally ran on StateScoop on March 19, 2013. "The golden age never was the present age." That's a quote from Benjamin Franklin, who was about as close to a State CIO as you could get back in 18th century Pennsylvania. And while it
New blog entry 13 Mar 2013
Mike Maxwell posted: State vs. Private Cybersecurity: A League of Their Own
* This article originally ran on StateScoop on March 12, 2013. One of the frequent questions we get from state CIOs is about benchmarking: “How are our cybersecurity efforts stacking up against other states’ initiatives, federal policies, and private-sector implementations