You’d probably be very surprised to learn that according to security ratings firm BitSight Technologies, the federal government ranks second, only behind the financial sector, in cybersecurity performance.
This certainly comes as a surprise considering it seems like every morning I wake up to another government agency being hacked by nation-states or rouge actors. The report showed that the education sector in the caboose, the energy and health care sectors not far ahead, retail right on the heals of the government and financial services way out in the lead.
