New cybersecurity risk regulations for all organizations are approaching faster than you might think. "Computers, software, programming and algorithms are all parts of a cybersecurity risk program, but it is the interaction with the "humans" that makes all the difference in the world." An effective cybersecurity risk program requires an organization to have everything from program policies to incident response plans to specific breach notifica...

A Practical Approach to The Green Book Compliance The Green Book sets the standards for an effective internal control system for federal agencies, and is a crucial safeguard over public resources. State, local, and quasi-governmental entities, as well as not-for-profit organizations, may adopt the new Green Book standards as a framework for an internal control system. This one-day CPE seminar provides an overview of the principles-based Green...

Join the Maryland Tech Council for our "Doing Business with the National Institutes of Health" roundtable event. Our panelists will discuss how the National Institutes of Health partners with representatives of industry to support and conduct medical research to improve human health and how those partnerships can bring unique resources and strengths to the table. Sold Out - Please contact us for wait list.

In many sectors, the goals of IT modernization are framed primarily in traditional IT terms, with an emphasis on efficiency, performance, and security. In healthcare, that’s just the starting point. Ultimately, healthcare organizations are looking to drive improvements not just in the IT infrastructure but in the management and delivery of healthcare operations and patient care. AFCEA Bethesda’s 11th annual Health IT Summit will br...

Are you a business leader, sales manager or small business owner who wants your sales, marketing and BD staff to-• Grow their professional network of customer, prospects, and partners?• Connect with more decision makers through introductions and referrals?• Increase their visibility and value by sharing valuable information? • WIN MORE BUSINESS! Then LinkedIn for Government Contractors is what you need - and seating is lim...

Drupal GovCon brings together people from all over the country who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform with a focus in government. Although there is a focus on government, there is also a heavy representation of attendees from the private sector as well. Drupal GovCon is the heartbeat of the DC Drupal community. We come together for three days every year, to learn, improve, and innovate as a community. Drupal GovCon will feat...

There’s a good reason that the Report on Federal IT Modernization identifies the cloud as an essential platform for IT in the years ahead. Cloud has the potential not only to improve the efficiency of existing services, but also to enable the development of a new generation of services. But there are still a lot of questions to be answered. To fully leverage cloud computing, agencies need to rethink their IT architecture, address lingeri...

Join HyTrust and VMware in the Cabinet/Judiciary room for their Breakfast & Learn event the morning of Tuesday, May 22nd! Attendees will learn more about how HyTrust and VMware's integrated solutions allow agencies to: Define, detect, and defend sensitive and confidential dataEncrypt workloads and enable enterprise key managementEnable privileged administration access control, monitoring, and auditingAutomate compliance tasks and remedi...

Please join us for a SolarWinds® Technology Briefing. You will begin with breakfast and spend the day with SolarWinds learning how to get the most from our network, systems, applications, database, compliance, and security products. Our systems engineers will take a deep dive into the technical details, review key features including a new Orion® Platform feature called the PerfStack™ dashboard, and demonstrate configuration and i...

A data analytics initiative is not just about the data. It’s about putting in place the technology, policies, and processes needed to leverage the full benefits of an analytics program. It’s about removing the barriers to identifying and sharing potentially valuable data streams. And it’s about understanding the organizational and cultural challenges of institutionalizing analytics as a discipline. This event will bring toget...