USPTO CIO Jamie Holcombe and Product Line Leaders to update industry on the progress of modernization efforts and its Agile transformation along product lines. To satisfy new customer demands, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) embarked on an organizational transformation to change how they deliver enterprise IT. This journey encompasses the New Ways of Working (NWOW) and new, scaled Agile practices with a focus on customer...

Hosted by: QinetiQ Led by: Nathan Timbrell – Senior Sales Manager, Enterprise Cyber, QinetiQ Luke Ager – Chief Technical Officer, Cyber Security, QinetiQ Webinar Overview A security operations centre (SOC) will deliver uninterrupted monitoring of an organisation’s IT network, computers, servers, databases, applications, security systems, internet traffic and all other components within the digital infrastructure. Any incident...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) aims to make consumer financial markets work for consumers, responsible providers, and the economy as a whole. CFPB protects consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and takes action against companies that break the law. The agency arms people with the information, steps, and tools that they need to make smart financial decisions. In this GAB webinar, you will hear from Shannon File...

A decentralized control plane in a traditional networking environment has its benefits but can become difficult to manage and maintain over time. Utilizing RedHat Ansible Tower automation platform we will begin to take command and control of a Cisco-based data center by centralizing device configuration through a trusted source of truth. RedHat Ansible and Cisco Networking work in tandem to achieve a single point of control for your sprawling...

The Government Performance Summit (GPS) is the premier virtual live gathering for senior government officials and political C-suite executives, responsible for implementing government performance improvements and transparency efforts. This year's theme is Critical Success Factors: the areas of your agency that are the most important for success. With shrinking budgets and high public support needed, this is a time for innovation and shared exp...

The federal government has been working to update its policies, architectures and frameworks around digital identity for some time. OMB revised its Identity Credential and Access Management guide in May of 2019 and that National Institute for Standards and Technology has been working on an updated version of its guidance on security and privacy controls for information systems. Then, the pandemic hit, and all programs went into overdrive as ag...

IT modernization has been a federal priority for years, but many agencies still struggle to turn that goal into a practical plan of action. Securing multi-year funding is one challenge, but the fundamental obstacle is often the sheer complexity of transforming government-scale systems. Smart, successful modernization demands a holistic approach that addresses several essential pillars: security, network infrastructure, multi-cloud architecture...

HashiCorp Terraform is a great open source solution for infrastructure as code(IaC). Here we will go through basic manifest creation for Terraform, and show how this open source solution can be extremely powerful. We’ll take you through Terraform and deploy on VMware infrastructure so you can leverage this in your private cloud and understand how this can fit in your environment and use-case.

The global information technology supply chain has been hit with a growing and unprecedented number of attacks as adversaries attempt to compromise systems with various forms of malware in an attempt to steal or compromise or hold for ransom sensitive information. Federal executives realized how complex the question of supply chain security was in 2017 when officials tried to implement the Department of Homeland Security’s order to remov...

Gone are the days of agencies trusting everything on their networks. It’s proven that malicious attacks are just as likely to come from inside a network as they are from outside — so, no one can be trusted. Instead, agencies are increasingly taking the zero-trust architecture approach, authenticating users and devices anytime they move around the network. The SNG Live Virtual Speaker Series will focus on the adoption of zero-trust...