In a hybrid environment where network resources and documents need to be constantly shared and exchanged between PC and Mac platforms, security is more important than ever. With the right combination of hardware, software and good old-fashioned IT policies and user education, you can keep both Macs and PCs on your network safe and secure.

If your security controls seem out of control, these steps can help you apply the new NIST guidance to find a way forward.

If your security controls seem out of control, these steps can help you apply the new NIST guidance to find a way forward.

In a hybrid environment of PCs and Macs, security is more important than ever.

In a hybrid environment of PCs and Macs, security is more important than ever.

Shining a light on the Federal IT Dashboard.

You can create a more efficient printing program by centralizing the operations, taking advantage of device settings and getting users to join the cause.

By deploying optimization and acceleration techniques, agencies can assure that users in even far-flung locations can tap data and apps.

Just like their federal counterparts, state government IT organizations have been adopting virtualization. In Yuma County, Ariz., we were an early adopter and began using server virtualization technology more than three years ago. Now, nearly half of the county's 99 servers have been virtualized.

Learn pointers on how to make sure your agency stays online and on task.

To get the most from your PC investments, take advantage of asset management, warranties and staff training. These efforts will reduce help-desk support calls, cut maintenance costs and bolster user productivity.

To make remote work setups a practical option for short- or long-term displacements, JPL technologist identifies five must-have technology capabilities.

Evaluating your needs will help simplify backup options when choosing Symantec Backup Exec tools.

The details count when it comes to establishing service-level agreements for cloud service. Get pointers on how to craft an SLA that aligns with your agency's needs and mitigates risk.

In large enterprises, where users must share data extensively between locations, learn tricks to optimize bandwidth so that your data can get from here to there (and back) with minimum latency.

For small agencies moving to disk-to-disk storage, it makes sense to take advantage of existing tape stores.

High-availability storage hinges on being prepared for a system failure.

These tips can help your agency protect sensitive data at the endpoint.

To succeed at virtualization, eschew estimates in favor of real-world metrics.

Here are seven tips on deploying WAN optimization controllers that can accelerate throughput to every branch of your agency.

By applying lessons learned, a stalwart access control and behavior-monitoring architecture lies within reach.

Make the most of the buying options served up by NASA in its lastest iteration of SEWP, its long-standing GWAC.

To maintain system reliability, smart change management lies in preventing unwanted configuration alterations.

For federal CTOs, new technology must deliver more than innovation — it must do more than existing IT and do it better.

For small agencies moving to disk-to-disk storage, it makes sense to take advantage of existing tape stores.

Follow these tips to improve your network's performance.

Create successful metrics for security by focusing on effectiveness, not performance.

Workarounds can help you adjust to the new OS.

Take your best shot at collaboration and surveillance.

Prevent data leakage through your agency's system ports.

Tips on how to 'green' your power management.

Pointers on securing your telework environment.

Consolidation not only makes sense for the government's technology tools, but it also could improve the acquisition processes used to buy them.

To maintain FDCC compliance hinges on creating a sound configuration change management process.

Five keys let agencies unlock tools that make navigating the world of e-preservation in government straightforward.

To succeed at change management, these feds say take the lead and guide rather than ride the IT-change beast.

In the vanguard of collapsing Internet access, DOD has experience that other agencies can exploit to meet the TIC mandate.

What agencies can do to make the move beyond one-stop Web sites and portals.

Agencies share their advice on how best to equip, manage and support employees when they're working at home.

Don't ask when or if a breach will occur. Instead, ask yourself: Has the IT team set the stage to stop and contain an intrusion?

To set metrics, be sure to start with the desired outcome.

Given the financial and environmental benefits, now might be the best time to go virtual.

Secure your network against remote access by former employees.

Think of your teleworkers as drivers who need to obey the rules of your road if they want to keep their license to access data.

Take these steps to help avoid pitfalls when you relocate your data center.

Knowing how fast a transaction occurs is irrelevant, if it fails to meet the programs' objectives. Solid metrics must incorporate the human factor.

A primer on weaving EA and systems development into an investment management framework.

The service modernizes its network infrastructure with a focus on EoIP — 'Everything over IP.'

Adjust your work plans to keep a steady hand as your agency's LOB responsibilities increase.

From around the globe to around the block, here's help securing your systems.

Eight value areas can help agencies determine what to look for in integrator relationships.

NASA finds that the processes it uses for rocket science work for replacing its WAN — on time and under budget.

Keep your ID program moving ahead.

At Interior, a CTO Council lets the department's tech gurus collaborate to set IT priorities that benefit all users.

At Interior, a CTO Council lets the department's tech gurus collaborate to set IT priorities that benefit all users.

Recent data thefts are just the tip of an ugly iceberg, but it's not too late to slow down and build a better foundation for data security.

Recent data thefts are just the tip of an ugly iceberg, but it's not too late to slow down and build a better foundation for data security.

Here's how to keep hold of the budget reins on that IT project.

Here's how to keep hold of the budget reins on that IT project.

Learn how the IT Infrastructure Library helped FAA's help desks achieve a 97 percent success rate.

A developer of program management techniques details how combining training with mentoring can create a results-driven culture.

An IPv6 expert lays out the next steps the government must take to make the leap to next-generation Internet service.

A network security expert explains how to gain ROI through consolidation.

Agencies must prove the merit of their IT projects using metrics, but doing it right can be tricky.

Government managers who want to extend their influence in all directions have learned that the first meeting with project stakeholders is the most important.

The push is on to craft business cases that help agencies be smart planners, buyers, deployers and managers of IT.

Outsourcing your PC operations can make good systems and business sense; see how to succeed in farming out desktop services.

Don't let data swamp you; bone up on the latest storage tools and see how some agencies stay ahead of the info tsunami.

Twenty-two agencies came together to form Homeland Security, but now just one procurement shop serves them all.

You can keep spyware at bay if you keep your systems tuned to spot it before it can sneak in a back door.

New architectural mapping tools—set for governmentwide rollout—can help you fine-tune your agency's Web site and online services.

Get up to speed on buying rule changes that require agencies to make sure IT acquired through micropurchases is accessible to all users.

Federal and industry execs agree a good relationship between agencies and their contractors is paramount; here are five ways to improve your partnerships.

More than 2,000 financial management systems support millions of financial transactions that keep federal programs operating. CIOs and CFOs huddle up and create a framework to eliminate redundant business and technology systems.

Federal agency budgets live and die at the mercy of continuing resolutions. Experts inside government share advice on how to play the waiting game and carry on with IT initiatives despite budget stopgap measures.

Sometimes IT projects are beset with problems that lead down a runaway path to nowhere. The Casey Group's project turnaround leader, and co-author of Project Rescue: Avoiding a Project Management Disaster, outlines the symptoms of a wayward project and provides "intervention" pointers.

The Army deploys an advanced communications network that connects headquarters and field operations in real time.

Procurement experts give advice on handling the process proficiently.

Upgrading antiquated phone systems can be expensive, so some agencies take a different approach: They consolidate voice, data and video with an Internet Protocol-based network.

Federal IT capital investment planners get a hand building a case for funding.