VITA provides information technology (IT) infrastructure services to the Commonwealth’s 67 executive branch agencies and a workforce of over 65,000 state employees, equipping and empowering executive branch agencies to serve Virginia’s 8.6 million residents. The large Commonwealth network not only provides agency services but also segregates traffic for each agency to provide the necessary security and privacy requirements.

Network infrastructure forms the foundation for almost all government interactions with Virginians. But a network is not viable or useful if it does not enable convenient, reliable, and secure customer usage. Network infrastructure therefore includes not only the network circuits and related hardware but also the software that helps run and maintain the Commonwealth’s network and the security services and controls that provide a secure platform and guard against threats, making it possible both for agencies to protect their systems and data and for users to access those resources. Accordingly, this report includes discussion of network, security, and cloud technologies and initiatives that improve network redundancy and resiliency or that fulfill essential network security functions.

This year’s network report describes multiple initiatives that have bolstered network resiliency, redundancy, reliability and overall performance. These efforts include voice and data modernization, building a zero-trust security framework, private and public cloud migrations, and performance and network monitoring.