This hands-on workshop guides you through the creation of a headless CMS (Content Management System) employing a secure and versioned RESTful API. Embrace industry best practices as you fortify the API's security with JWT tokens and leverage the power of cbSecurity (coldbox-security.ortusbooks.com). Throughout the workshop, we emphasize the principles of Behavior and Test Driven Programming, ensuring comprehensive automated testing covers ever...

Successful federal modernization requires an artful blend of people, process, and technology—with a relentless focus on enabling business transformation. A “digital playbook” can provide a comprehensive guide to the process, describing both overarching strategy and tactical approaches. Using a templatized technology strategy can boost mission outcomes while humanizing data-driven modernization and leveraging artificial intell...

Critical infrastructure services in North America face accelerating threats from both nation-states and other sophisticated threat actors. Governments globally are grappling with how to best balance incentives, support, and direct oversight. Meanwhile, critical infrastructure owners and operators face significant challenges with technology, staff resources, and expertise to better manage cyber resilience. For instance, the healthcare industry...

When Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” was issued in May 2021, it included directives for agencies to establish several incident response and logging procedures, including sharing information on incident detection and response, by August 2023. In August of that year, the Office of Management and Budget issued Memorandum 21-31 setting specific requirements for agencies to meet, for which the Cybers...

Modernization can feel like an uphill battle in government. It's not that people don't want to make things better. It's just that they fall into thinking that change is not possible. But innovation is happening all the time. The key is to find ways to bring that innovation forward and use it as a catalyst for change. Join us online Wednesday, April 17 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT as we discuss nine different ways innovation can transform your emplo...

Public surveys are a critical CX tool for gauging your services’ effectiveness and measuring constituent engagement. But if your surveys aren’t currently hitting the mark or providing the right insight, you’re missing out on important feedback from those you serve. Join us online Monday, April 15 at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT to hear from a government CX expert about how to ramp up the effectiveness of your public surveys.

Florida is the third-largest state in the U.S. by population, and it continues to grow rapidly – from 2010 to 2020, its population grew by 14.5%. That kind of growth rate might be the envy of other states, but it also means increased pressure on the state government to deliver internet-based, user-friendly services for everything from child support services to renewing business licenses. Bringing digital transformation to the Sunshine St...

It has become clear over the past several years that maintaining U.S. election integrity is not just a single agency’s responsibility. Conducting fair and accurate elections is the responsibility of each state and territory. Meanwhile, nation-states, partisans, and scammers can interfere with voter information, try to cast doubt on election outcomes, and spread disinformation across social media, to name just a few. The Office of the Dir...

With a growing number of dams approaching their design service life, dam safety engineers are looking for ways to mitigate the risks related to public safety, aging infrastructure and rising maintenance costs. Modernizing dam monitoring and maintenance practices with digital advancements, including the latest automated condition monitoring solutions, drone-captured reality modeling and digital twins, are giving public sector dam operators tool...

Educational institutions and state and local agencies historically have been challenged to keep up with technological advancements – their budgets are tight, their users are increasingly distributed post-pandemic, and they face significant operating expenses from maintaining legacy architectures and equipment. Digital transformation is appealing, but for many organizations the challenge is where to start. As the generation of data has ex...