Brian DaSilva, Director, Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Author at Mark43

Why top agencies are embracing StateRAMP

By Brian DaSilva, Director, Governance, Risk, and Compliance | October 23, 2023 |

Security breaches are increasingly common and costly for government agencies. From 2021 to 2022, cyber-attacks doubled for government facilities and quadrupled for emergency services. At the same time, most government agencies are ill-equipped to handle a cyber breach, with an average attack costing the public sector $2.6 million in 2023. 1,000+ known cyberattacks against U.S.…

Three advantages of moving to cloud-native software for public safety

By Brian DaSilva, Director, Governance, Risk, and Compliance | October 20, 2022 |

The days of running your own applications on your on-premise data centers are fading away. With the pandemic serving as a shocking wake up call for many companies and organizations, uninterrupted access to mission-critical software became the most critical risk that everyone had to figure out, quickly. The answer for most of them… the cloud!…