A focus on strengthening our cybersecurity workforce should be at the forefront of every agencies’ 2023 goals. The cyber workforce must evolve to address the challenges posed by our adversaries and meet strategic mission requirements, while also doing an exemplary job at managing data security. This requires agencies to reshape their understanding of what data security entails and how the future of cyber security must include prioritizin...

Approaching the one-year anniversary of the Office of Management and Budget’s memorandum on “Moving the U.S. Government Toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles,” this session will reflect on how agencies are meeting the specific criteria while utilizing ZT architecture. OMB’s memorandum involves centralizing identity management to provide enterprise identity and access management services to reduce the burden on agen...

Join us on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 for a night in celebration of the GITEC 2022 Award Winners. The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) GITEC Emerging Technology Awards will recognize government teams who have made significant contributions in the advancement and implementation of technology innovations. The awards will honor a government team deserving recognition for driving towards digital transformation.

With many older systems in place, the government is one sector that could use DevOps the most. However, like many industries, there are often challenges adopting new ways of doing things. That being said, this panel will focus on roadblocks towards DevOp adoption and addressing how to overcome them. What are the challenges to Devops adoption? What are steps that help make DevOps a reality? Join us for this discussion as topic experts will disc...

Listen as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics experts explain the importance of AI and Data Analytics across the Federal Government. In this period of time of building the “new normal”, what emerging technology has led to strengthening AI and Data Analytics? This event will set out to explain the emerging technology that has been used to strategize federal AI and Data Analytics, along with the future of AI and Data Anal...

Tune in for the GITEC 2022 Emerging Technology Award Nominations on November 10, 2022, from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET! Join us for a virtual presentations’ event and hear from the finalist nominated teams about their achievements in their respective award category. This year’s awards will focus on recognizing Government teams and their initiatives that have made significant contributions in the advancement and implementation of technol...

Cyber threats are evolving at such rates that Federal training of cybersecurity practitioners are struggling to keep up. The continued cybersecurity push across government and industry, it is increasingly important for organizations to have proactive cyber plans in place. As the nation looks to recover from a once-in-a-century pandemic and increasingly more sophisticated cyberattacks, the U.S. government must ensure that it can secure its netw...

Modern productivity means getting work done whenever and wherever needed. The evolution of mobile devices and networks has enabled agencies to accomplish more. Mobility has also brought together an ecosystem of interconnected networks, operating systems, mobile applications, cloud services, and data. This, coupled with efforts to shift towards zero trust architectures, requires agencies to be more diligent than ever in how they adopt and imple...

Leveraging both cloud and hybrid environments has become more prevalent as agencies transform how they manage data and work towards their cloud smart goals. This modernization allows flexibility and supports the operational needs of Federal agencies’ missions. Migrating towards a full cloud environment is not a new topic, as decades of work has been done to ensure that Federal agencies can utilize off-site storage securely, but there can...

The challenges and complexity of maintaining a “ready-to-recover” posture grow exponentially as the volume of data, the number of locations and numbers of workloads continue to skyrocket. IT leaders must meet the expectations of their organization in terms of up time and availability as well as managing and predicting costs. Tune into this panel as topic experts discuss how to manage data and applications at scale at the right econ...