Office 365 is an incredibly powerful tool for boosting productivity and facilitating collaboration, but ensuring secure agency collaboration becomes a bit more complicated when it comes to managing guest users and external sharing.Controls must be configured correctly and out-of-the-box functionality is one-size-fits-all within the tenant. Agencies must ask themselves the following important questions: How do I enforce external sharing policie...

New ways of working have emerged, both for citizens and the government agencies serving them. Agencies are reevaluating their technology needs during this pandemic time, and furthering their IT modernization, through DevSecOps. This panel will set out to discuss how advancements in DevSecOps lead to an increased visibility for security and push for further modernization in the Federal IT space. These topic experts will also discuss solutions f...

Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) have been very successful as an enterprise solution in the commercial world, but security concerns and the government’s former emphasis on working in offices has slowed its deployment in the public sector. Now, however, with large parts of the federal workforce working remotely, demand for access to the public internet has dramatically increased. Release of new interim guidance about TIC 3.0 a...

Closing the Gap: CDM’s Role in Telework in Government The Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program relies on automated tools to strengthen the cybersecurity of government networks and systems for agencies to continuously monitor their networks. Modernization of networks, while maintaining the security and risk mitigation capability of CDM, helps reduce the threat posture of government ag...

The ATARC Federal Zero Trust Virtual Summit presented by Duo Security is on September 22, 2020, from 1:30-3:45 PM EST. Don’t miss this gathering of cybersecurity topic experts as they discuss trending and relevant topics in Federal cybersecurity, including Zero Trust, Identity Management, and policy alignment. Hear how government agency team leaders are adjusting their team's policies, processes, and procedures, to help guide their emplo...

The last few months have altered work in ways never before imagined. Conference rooms are now conference calls, and the new normal is still being defined. Government CIOs have been operating on the front line, triaging technical issues remotely, maintaining on premise servers from afar, and dealing with spikes in help desk services. Technology is just the tool; people are the driver to building enterprise-wide agility. The pandemic response ha...

The Federal government’s procurement process has long been burdened with inefficiencies. The complexity of the process has resulted in major acquisition shortfalls because program management is undervalued, with procurement actions plagued by poor performance, cost overruns and schedule delays. Procurement reform known as frictionless acquisition is now one of government’s cross-agency goals. Agencies, modeling commercial purchasin...

The NextGen Summit is the embodiment of what NextGen represents: inspiring government innovation and providing training and leadership opportunities for public servants. Since 2010, the two-day summit has inspired over 5,000 federal, state and local govies to be positive change ambassadors. This year, the NextGen Summit will be hosted virtually on August 19-20, 2020. Why does it matter to me? The NextGen Summit is a place to cultivate and enab...

The last few months have altered work in ways never before imagined. Conference rooms are now conference calls, and the “new normal” is still being defined. According to OPM’s most recent telework report to Congress, only 22% of government employees had adopted telework as part of their regular work week prior to the pandemic. Telework and flexible work schedules are in the toolbox to ensure the health and safety of governmen...

As agencies prepared for 2020, no one anticipated the severe changes that were about to occur, abruptly shifting priorities toward a state of emergency. As a result, public sector management has faced overwhelming disruption. Overnight, stay-at-home orders changed where and how their staffs worked. Confronted with this harsh new reality, and the momentous global change that is occurring, the federal workforce continues to be faced with uncerta...