First defined over two decades ago, zero trust has substantially picked up steam in recent years. President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity has taken it a step further by codifying zero trust as the Federal Government’s security architecture of choice. Nearly every agency desires to achieve zero trust, but the gap between their existing environments and the ideals they read about leave most st...

Many government entities are required by law to submit a comprehensive annual financial report which serves to provide the public a detailed accounting of all taxpayer funds collected and expended, along with transparent presentations of budget to actual comparison statements. Timeliness, along with the need for reliability, are among two of the most important characteristics when it comes to financial reporting and often require years of care...

The purpose of this session is to discuss CrowdStrike’s most current understanding regarding the ever-prevalent ransomware threat, and to characterize observations around how the ransomware ecosystem has evolved over the last couple years. Attendees of this session will benefit from CrowdStrike’s unique insights into the associated enablers of ransomware, to include associated initial access techniques, ransomware-related business...

The next generation of work culture will fuse this customer experience data with real-org employee experience data. Lead by listening. How might we improve the way we communicate and connect to one another during times of uncertainty? In addition to the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, how are we seeking to understand our employee’s health and wellbeing? It’s challenging to live in a state of ongoing “crisis” a...

What's in the power of a nudge? Government agencies spend millions of dollars each year in effort to support the public everyday and in times of emergency. How are government agencies improving their understanding of how people process information and make decisions, and how agencies can design and administer programs? Government agencies are optimizing performance by leveraging the knowledge of human behavior, like nudges, to improve how they...

Lou Carbone is a renowned expert in understanding and leveraging the unconscious clues and signals from customers and employees when designing new experiences. By understanding the unvocalized needs of stakeholders (i.e., citizens, veterans, seniors, employees etc.) you can create government experiences that connect with your customers and employees, making them feel significant and heard. Lou will share his concepts, built on decades of resea...

What gets measured gets funded. As agencies continue to pursue excellence in their delivery of services, leveraging the strategies and practices used in the business discipline of customer experience (CX) becomes essential. A well-defined CX program highlights the importance of internal experiences critical to delivering on the promise. The government can save millions by reducing duplication and redundancies while providing the public a clear...

Organizations face a myriad of risks brought about by the digital transformation of their business. These risks include digital fraud, data theft exposure, social media impersonations and phishing attempts within social media and the hidden areas of the open, deep and dark web.Join CrowdStrike's upcoming Tech Talk as they go over CrowdStrike Falcon X Recon™, created to expose the criminal underground and enable organizations to better pr...

This briefing will cover the Big 4 nation-state threat actors, which are Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. We will discuss how these nations have evolved their offensive cyber capabilities over the last year, how they have shifted (or maintained) their targeting objectives, as well as how the 4 have affected different industries across the commercial and government sectors.

While companies have embraced more endpoint and multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions in their security architecture, they don’t always see incidents as they happen — especially those involving service accounts and lateral movement. Recent attacks targeting identity and supply chain automation have made it clear that the next level of preparedness and risk mitigation must include reviewing and strengthening identity security t...