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Today is Giving Tuesday, a day each year when millions of people all over the world donate to a variety of charitable causes. The event, held annually since 2012 on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is known worldwide as a “global generosity movement” that unleashes the power of people and organizations to support life-changing and impactful transformations through donations of kindness, time, funds, goods, and advocacy. Even in the midst of COVID, over $2.47 billion dollars was raised on GivingTuesday 2020 – a significant increase from the $1.97 billion dollars raised during GivingTuesday 2019. There’s good reason to believe that Giving Tuesday 2021 will see just as much, if not more of, a success than previous years.

Cyber breaches have become increasingly devastating over the last few years, with damaging effects extending into the day-to-day operations of the federal government. Though remote work has become a societal norm and less of a business perk, organizations continue to become more and more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Federal cybersecurity personnel must continuously ascertain risk levels to ensure that users can be trusted. If the user’s risk level is not constantly checked, an attacker who had previously gained access to the system can easily maneuver around the agency’s networks far and wide without being detected.

We have seen a mass migration of data and applications form local datacenters to the public cloud.  Now while the cloud is not perfect it has a lot going for it.  The positives include an elastic, resilient and fault tolerant architecture. The cons are that its highly configurable and requires the proper controls, monitoring and service architecture to make it secure.