Candace Thorson

1 week ago | govloop.com | Candace Thorson

Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Digital Government As agencies become more complex and disbursed, their individual security systems — some focused on physical access, such as video surveillance, and some on cyber threats — become difficult to manage. There are too many systems monitoring too many things, and they generate too many alerts to be fully useful.

4 weeks ago | govloop.com | Candace Thorson

Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, IT Modernization Agency processes often are slow and cumbersome and overly reliant on manual, paper-based requirements. Such inefficiency affects even simple interactions with consumers, vendors, contractors, and various internal departments — and although staff know intuitively that there’s a better way, modernization can seem confusing. But automating your operations is actually straightforward.

1 month ago | govloop.com | Candace Thorson

Cybersecurity, Digital Government, Emerging Tech Quantum computing, like other emerging technologies, offers great promise: to turn the impossible into something practical. But quantum computers also jeopardize the carefully ordered algorithms that encrypt our data today and protect us from malicious actors. And that’s a risk agencies cannot ignore. Transitioning to quantum-safe encryption isn’t the work of a day, week or month.

2 months ago | govloop.com | Candace Thorson

In the landscape of cybersecurity risk, protection capability — identity security — stands out. Ninety percent of agencies have suffered an identity-related breach, due largely to the fact that agencies don’t understand their paths to privilege, or ways threat actors can exploit their identity attack surface. Traditional cybersecurity detection tools are unable to illuminate those paths most likely targeted by threat actors.

Jan 10, 2025 | govloop.com | Candace Thorson

Most of us are familiar with projects gone wrong, with indecision, delays and wasteful sidetracks when no one understood the project’s purpose. But up-front analysis can avoid those speedbumps, and it’s especially vital for data-driven projects, such as determining how an agency feeds residents experiencing food insecurity.