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Dr. Larry Ponemon and Tenable’s Stephen Smith discuss the cybersecurity challenges revealed in a recent study of cybersecurity in the public sector, and provide three tips for closing the Cyber Exposure gap. 

It’s not easy to be a cybersecurity professional in the public sector these days.

While government agencies each face many of the same daily security risks as their private sector counterparts, public sector organizations have a unique set of challenges when it comes to cybersecurity. Among the issues facing public sector organizations are:

Popular open source FTP daemon affected by an improper access control vulnerability dating back to 2010

Background

On July 18, Tobias Mädel published an advisory for an improper access control vulnerability in a default module for ProFTPD, a popular open source FTP daemon for Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

Researchers disclose a critical vulnerability in Palo Alto GlobalProtect SSL VPN solution used by many organizations.

Learn why Tenable.sc and Tenable.io, both with Predictive Prioritization, are Sentara Healthcare’s choices for vulnerability management. 

Recasting cybersecurity as another essential public service, just like safety or water or electricity, can help local government leaders make the case for cybersecurity funding. Here’s how. 

There is a unique and often overlooked inverse relationship between the size of public sector government entities and the impact they have on the residents who make use of public services. This relationship creates a disproportionate burden on local governments, which may be small in size but have a large potential impact on the daily lives of their constituents.