57% of federal respondents reported data breaches, a threefold increase over the 18% recorded back in 2016. Despite skyrocketing IT security spending, successful attacks are escalating across the board. Federal agencies must protect sensitive data and thwart bad guys hunting for citizens’ private data and nation-state hackers. Digital transformation is a big cause of the data threats plaguing federal agencies, says 451 Research’s Garrett Bekker. Motion and data-rest defenses are ranked equally effective at protecting data, according to the report.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/federal-agency-data-under-siege