Due to mandates such as Cloud First and ongoing financial constraints, government agencies are well on their way to the Cloud. Whether your agency has already migrated or is in the process of migrating, you need to focus not only on the benefits to but the security issues to be considered. Agencies need a comprehensive migration strategy, taking into account security, data access, and privacy policy considerations. When discussing this strateg...

There are plenty of changes underway in how the federal government operates and manages technology for improving service, including the Administration challenging government agencies to focus on effective ways to foster citizen engagement. And the Government Customer Service Improvement Act requires agencies to improve service standards, investigate emerging technologies, incorporate industry best practices, and reduce websites with the overal...

Background The Government Customer Service Improvement Act currently in Congress and Executive Order 13571 already in effect are among the most recent in a long succession of laws and directives intended to assure quality where citizens with needs touch government. While there has never been more attention focused on the effectiveness of our services, there has also never been a more challenging environment for delivering them. Agencies and or...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are placing increased emphasis on implementing an effective "information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) program" for all government and contractor run IT systems. This will be accomplished by DHS and OMB increasing the annual FISMA reporting requirements and NIST issuing NIST Special Publications (SP): I...

2011 was commonly known as the year of the breach, and thus far, 2012 is continuing the trend. The FBI’s former head of cyber investigations, Shawn Henry, recently painted a bleak picture of the threat landscape: “The current public and private approach to fending off hackers is unsustainable. Computer criminals are simply too talented and defensive measures too weak to stop them.” In an August 2012 Technology Adoption Profil...

Implementing a comprehensive Big Data backup, recovery, archiving and access strategy is becoming more critical as government agencies deal with the management of diverse and growing data sets. As federal IT data environments continue to scale in both size and complexity there is a need for storage and application owners to have more control over backup and recovery processes. Register for this webinar and learn how you can empower your agency...

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone, and much of it is unstructured. It's not just the amount of data that presents challenges; the types of data being collected are changing and coming from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records o...

Cloud-based services are now included in federal technology plans, and cloud-adoption within the government is moving forward. Also moving forward is The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative which calls for reducing the number of data centers by 39% by 2015. Government agencies are required to make available a current list of planned and completed data center closures and consolidations each quarter, in accordance with an updated sched...

Federal agencies must meet a quickly approaching deadline to deploy IPv6 on their public-facing websites. But, 99% of all federal websites aren't supporting the next-gen Internet Protocol on their DNS, email and Web services, according to a survey conducted by NIST. This free one-hour webinar will give you the tools, as well as outline 5 steps, to help your agency move quickly toward compliance as the clock ticks precariously down. Participate...

According to several recent surveys, the top two priorities for CIOs are cloud computing and shared services. Private sector organizations including Ford, GE, Pfizer and Rolls Royce have been successfully implementing shared services since 1980. However, failed implementations in the US public sector have been widely publicized leading to misconceptions about the role of shared services. In this session you will learn what shared services are...