The Freedom of Information Act, enacted in 1966, was the first law that gave Americans the right to access the records of federal agencies. FOIA establishes a legal right of access to government records and information on the basis of the principles of openness and accountability in government. In 1974, after the Watergate scandal the act was amended to force greater agency compliance. In 1991 the General Accounting Office reported over 1.9 m...

JOIN US FOR THIS COMPLIMENTARY TRAINING WEBINAR Maximizing ROI Through Data Center Consolidation Data center consolidation goes well beyond simply conserving space in agency computer rooms. A host of factors are driving agencies to consolidate including business continuity and disaster recovery, environmental sustainability goals, cyber security and cost savings. The government’s information technology budget for 2015 is looking to data...

7 Secrets for Getting to 100% Email Categorization for Government How To Increase Your Email Categorization Accuracy Through Automation Wednesday March 19th at 2pm ET|11am PT 55,500,000,000,000. That's the total number of emails received worldwide in the last 12 months. And it probably feels like your Agency gets about half of those. The Bad News: If you're on your Agency's Records Management team - or support those who are - you're already qu...

Stop Making Your Agency's Employees Be Records Managers Records Management Automation For Government Wednesday, February 19th: 2pm ET|11am PT Not everyone in your agency or office is a Records Manager. Then why do you expect everyone in your agency or office to Records Manage? Whether it's email "categorization" by having staff set up rules & macros in Outlook, drag & drop documents into messy folders, or manually set reminders or make...

Free Webinar: 6 (and More) Mistakes You're Making By Using Google Drive, DropBox, and The Public Cloud For Business Whether or not you attended our January 28 webinar on the perils of using the Public Cloud for Business, you'll want to join us for Part II, an exclusive private session just for previous registrants like you. This is not a repeat: This is a brand new live event which will showcase more dangers of the Public Cloud and the advanta...

Organizations—especially Federal agencies—have the need to share information both internally and externally - with other agencies, state and local governments, private sector, as well as individuals. Because this shared information is very often sensitive, privileged, private and classified, how do you protect from unauthorized sharing and misuse of this information without stifling organizations’ ability to do their job? Joi...

Does your current contingency planning process or continuity of operations program (COOP) consist of shelves of three-ring binders? Are they created and maintained through slow, inaccurate manual processes? Are you dealing with separate, expensive solutions that are purchased individually and not tightly integrated? If you are a federal or state organization struggling to manage your continuity and disaster recovery planning, then you will ben...

Since 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act has been the cornerstone for environmental protection in the United States. To implement NEPA, federal agencies must prepare environmental impact statements or environmental assessments to study the impacts of their proposed actions. Unfortunately, some federal agencies, their consultants and affected citizens do not fully understand the regulations, legal interpretations and practices for pro...

The Intersection of Customer Service and Security in the Cloud For the past two years, agencies have been making the jump to the cloud. Many first made the jump to the cloud for back-office systems, such as email or Web hosting. But more recently, agencies are seeing value in putting mission critical IT systems in the cloud. At the same time, federal chief information officers still are coming to terms with how cloud providers secure their pub...

The Cyber Threat Landscape: Mitigating Threats Inside and Outside of your Agency Did you know? The estimated annual cost of global cyber crime is $100 billion. There are over 1.5 million victims per day. 59% of ex-employees admitted to stealing proprietary data when leaving their previous job. US Navy sees 110,000 cyber attacks every hour - more than 30 every single second. Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this ed...