Jim Hansen

7 Steps to Build an Effective Cyberincident Response Process

09/17/25 Yet despite all the money you spend, the tools you buy, and the effort you put in to prevent compromise, you may still be attacked. Even the most advanced defenses can be …

Monitoring Challenges Emerge as Agencies Embrace Container Technology

02/15/21 Container technology is catching on big-time in the federal government as agencies such as the USDA and the National Institutes of Health look to containers to simplify so…

COVID-19 Pushes Schools to Their Limit, and the Cloud Shows Its Worth

11/30/20 For educators, students, and parents, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning has been profound. Thousands of schools across the U.S. closed their doors this sprin…

Five Steps to Developing an Application Modernization Strategy

11/02/20 Supporting legacy applications is problematic for several reasons. These aging systems are becoming increasingly obsolete and difficult to maintain. They use outdated soft…

Three Ways Federal Agencies Can Manage and Secure Their Hybrid Data Centers

06/23/20 As hybrid environments become more popular, federal IT teams are faced with managing and securing their on-premises and cloud infrastructures, while minimizing costs—and t…

Solving the Contractor Breach Challenge

05/05/20 According to our Federal Cybersecurity Survey Report from last year, more than half of federal IT pros surveyed say IT security risks are greater with contractors than wit…

APM: The Secret to Digital Transformation

02/10/20 By now, we’ve talked about the findings of SolarWinds Cloud Confessions 2020 and recommendations for how tech pros can use APM for more than just the troubleshooting of th…

A Trusted Roadmap for Full APM Success

02/07/20 A 2020 SolarWinds survey, SolarWinds Cloud Confessions 2020, showed APM tools have hit mainstream in terms of usage, but more work is needed to realize their potential as …

Confession: We’re Not Using APM to its Potential

02/05/20 After years of application developers only using application performance management (APM) technology during development, today’s modern application stack has expanded to i…

Careless and Malicious Insider Threats Are on the Rise Despite Better Detection

02/04/20 According to a 2019 Federal Cybersecurity Survey released last year by IT management software company SolarWinds, careless and malicious insiders topped the list of securi…

New Laws Alone Won’t Be Enough to Secure IoT Devices

01/28/20 Security concerns over the Internet of Things (IoT) are growing, and federal and state lawmakers are taking action. First, the U.S. Senate introduced the Internet of Thing…

Federal IT Pros Optimistic About Security, but Insider Threats Remain a Challenge

01/07/20 Federal IT professionals feel threats posed by careless or malicious insiders and foreign governments are at an all-time high, yet network administrators and security mana…