Network modernization to maximize visibility and performance

As agencies look to improve network performance and security, one approach that often gets overlooked involves converging the tools and data belonging to agency NOCs and SOCs — network operations centers and security operations centers. Years of entrenched operating practices, budgeting and acquisition authorities, and cultural dispositions have tended to drive network and security operations teams down separate, albeit closely related, technology lanes. That has often led agency NOCs and SOCs to acquire similar data analytic tools and generate similar data but for different purposes. Agencies would be better served — by being able to improve both network performance and security — if they converged those resources, say two industry chief technology officers. Sponsored by Riverbed. Guests: Marlin McFate, CTO, Public Sector and Vincent Berk, CTO and Chief Security Architect, Riverbed Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group Look for more coverage of “IT Modernization Government” on www.fedscoop.com/listen