2016 is shaping up to be the year of ransomware. Cyber-attacks are on the rise, with agencies losing control of their critical assets. And the problem isn’t going away.Could your agency fall victim to these malicious attacks? Everyone is vulnerable, but the good news is that there are simple steps you can take today using security tools you already have. Best practice for security suggests that your agency should be following a framework...

Employee data is mostly trapped in specialized data systems (human resource management, finance, emails, social media, and more), which were each created at different times to serve very specific functions. Too often organizations aren’t aware of the actual skill sets that exist within their workforce – which means they may staff important projects with inadequate talent. Imagine fully understanding the skills that exist within you...

Taking Compliance from a Costly Time Sink to a Security Enabler Regulatory Compliance - a term that engenders a visceral reaction in every agency, customer, and institution. Fines and penalties imposed by regulatory agencies can cripple your operations and cause significant operational impact in responding to audits. Many agencies estimate an average of six week level of effort in responding to audits for every application environment. So, jus...

In October 2015, the Obama Administration set forth new challenges and initiatives in the Open Government National Action Plan (NAP), with the goal to empower citizens and transform how the government engages and serves the public.Service in the government is unique however, and the shift to citizen-centric service is not easy. Save the date for our Sixth Annual Citizen Engagement Seminar on June 16, 2016 in Washington, DC to hear and learn fr...

Join us on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 to learn how to streamline and simplify the collection of information and data for your agency with flexible, powerful forms technology from Adobe. This event will bring together leaders and innovators from the government IT community to discuss how outdated forms technology slows government’s performance and efficiency, and will explore easy and simple ways to increase the efficiency and productivity o...

Learn how SAP can help you find data anomalies that indicate bad behavior. At all levels of government, few topics are as highly charged as the problem of fraud. Generally defined as obtaining something of value through willful misrepresentation, fraud affects a wide array of government programs and missions – including entitlements, subsidies, loans, grants, procurement, compliance inspection, taxes, and more – and costs tens of b...

Today’s health insurance marketplace has come a long way from the cost sinkhole many predicted it would become. Healthcare.gov became the biggest challenge in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 50-year history. A year into development, Henry Chao, the Deputy CIO at CMS, made a daring decision to change course and adopt new technologies that effectively supported CMS’s modern marketplace initiative. Join MarkLogic and Carahsoft...

Today's health insurance marketplace has come a long way from the cost sinkhole many predicted it would become. Healthcare.gov became the biggest challenge in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 50-year history. A year into development, Henry Chao, the Deputy CIO at CMS, made a daring decision to change course and adopt new technologies that effectively supported CMS's modern marketplace initiative.Today's health insurance marketplace has...

Join Adobe on Thursday, June 2nd for an interactive seminar on how government agencies across the U.S. are leveraging Adobe Connect to communicate instantly and deliver rich and engaging eLearning content to increase productivity.Adobe Connect delivers highly secure virtual eLearning solutions which reduce the cost of in-person activities, and make collaborative sessions possible and more productive. With Adobe Connect, you can easily reuse c...

In the legal world, we are often challenged with protecting client information and doing more with less, all while increasing productivity. With tightened budgets, what tools can assist in maintaining the growing workload and demands of protecting classified information? How are you making the most of your time? Join LexisNexis and our Certified Independent Consultant from Circle Management Group, Ken Kennedy, for a webcast in which we will d...