Every year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are raising the FISMA requirements to achieve the ultimate goal of “Near-Real-Time System Security Awareness” and “Ongoing Authorization.” Additionally, they are making available automated security solutions to improve our protection and security awareness for our systems. How do you project, plan and program for these requir...

As a follow-up to Digital Government Institute’s popular flagship E-Discovery, Records & Information Conference held in March, government Records Management professionals will once again gather in August to network and continue the dialog about e-discovery, records and information management policies, applications and technologies, to include updates to meeting the Government Records Directive requirements. The Records Management Con...

With the overwhelming growth of digital information, the scope of electronic records management has expanded exponentially and is an increasingly critical issue for government agencies, particularly as it relates to being able to provide secure storage, access, and retrieval of this information. The 2012 OMB Managing Government Records Directive put NARA in charge of the effort with the goal of having all permanent records stored electronicall...

The volume of information that federal agencies manage continues to grow exponentially, making the job of controlling and governing it more and more difficult. We are quickly realizing the need to construct a control framework specifically to address the risks posed by information management. This framework is a vital component of an Information Governance program. Just as the title "Truth or Dare" implies: It’s not enough to assume agen...

As a follow-up to Digital Government Institute’s popular flagship E-Discovery, Records & Information Conference held in March, government Records Management professionals will gather in August to network and continue the dialog about e-discovery, records and information management policies, applications and technologies, to include updates to meeting the Government Records Directive requirements. The Records Management Conference is...

With the overwhelming growth of digital information, the scope of electronic records management has expanded exponentially and is an increasingly critical issue for government agencies, particularly as it relates to being able to provide secure storage, access, and retrieval of this information. The 2012 OMB Managing Government Records Directive put NARA in charge of the effort with the goal of having all permanent records stored electronicall...

As a follow-up to Digital Government Institute’s popular flagship E-Discovery, Records & Information Conference held in April, government Records Management professionals will gather in August to network and continue the dialog about e-discovery, records and information management policies, applications and technologies, to include updates to meeting the Government Records Directive requirements. The August Records Management Confere...

With the overwhelming growth of digital information, the scope of electronic records management has expanded exponentially and is an increasingly critical issue for government agencies, particularly as it relates to being able to provide secure storage, access, and retrieval of this information. The Administration's August 2012 release of the Managing Government Records Directive creates a robust records management framework that complies with...

Bricks and Mortar data center consolidation efforts have failed to meet the desired savings. So, government organizations mandated by FDCCI need a strategy for realizing true and dramatic cost savings. First, organizations need to understand that data center consolidation is not an IT problem. It is a business strategy that engages and aligns with IT that can have positive impacts across the organization and can provide an extraordinary return...