Building the Cyber Environs: Tools, Technology and Workforce The shift to digital, cloud, AI and other technologies has given rise to a variety of cyberattacks with an alarming cost. Government and industry continue to face critical security and risk issues with increased cyber threats, supply chain and cloud vulnerabilities, ransomware, phising, stolen credentials and identities, new sophisticated attack approaches and other cyber-types of at...

Data comes from many sources, data definitions, variations in data, different systems, and from many users. It is important to gather and identify data from a multitude of sources to explore data patterns and data trends to be used for forecasting, planning, future strategies, innovation, research, and others that are not affected by fluctuations, repeated sequencing over fixed periods of time, unexplained random variances, and much more. Ever...

Homeland Security and Law Enforcement present is a very complicated service with numerous challenges and risks presented to all levels of government. It is not only the terrorist attacks but also the natural disasters and other crises that impact day-to-day operations, our lives, and our wellbeing. Government and industry need to respond with an integrated and collaborative strategy to combat the impact and will require updated, sophisticated...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is one of the leading federal agencies in implementing in Cloud, UI/UX, SecDevOps and Cybersecurity capabilities. In 2021, President Biden signed Executive Orders (EO), some of them have a major impact on most components of DHS. First Executive Order is “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity”. It is a detailed overview of the Federal government’s plan to better secure America ...

A Fireside Chat with David Shive , Chief Information Officer, General Services Administration

In October 2020, DOJ announced a policy that permits state and local officers on DOJ Task Forces to wear and activate BWCs when the use of force is possible - while serving arrest warrants, executing other planned arrest operations, and during the execution of search warrants. On June 7 2021, based on recommendations from the Department's law enforcement components, the Attorney General directed the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, To...

The role of Chief Information Security Officer is important making security is front and center in protecting organizations in a post SolarWinds and Log4j world. As the need to share information between different agencies with both connected and disconnected applications increases, agencies need to think beyond DevSecOps and Zero Trust. Existing approaches to building software and the use of automation need to be reevaluated. The Department of...

Cloud Services: US Marshals Service (USMS) delivery of Law Enforcement Mission The journey from concept to plan to operational services is challenging in any environment, introducing the challenges of security and deputy safety adds to the complexity. Add the demands of various physical environments and 24x7 availability and you have complexity square. Mr. Bruner who has led that journey for the USMS will share with us their experience, challe...

Leave your cloud pain points at the door and learn the value of building FinOps best practices. Incorporating these practices will provide your agency with mature processes that maximize the business value from cloud spend. We’ll provide FinOps lessons learned, from project planning to cost optimization. Wherever your agency is in its cloud journey, get insights to optimize cloud spend and meet your cloud goals. Objectives: Learn about F...

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