As a follow-up to Digital Government Institute’s popular Cyber Security Conference held each May, government IT security professionals will once again gather in September to network and continue the dialog about today’s cyber threats. The Cyber & IT Security Conference is co-located with the 5th annual 930gov Conference, Tradeshow & Training Symposium. 930gov is a fiscal year-end strategy exchange bringing together Governme...

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. DGI’s 17th Government Customer Experience Conference — which is free for government professionals — will explore the policies, applications and technologies involved with improving customer...

Data security threats continue to increase in number and sophistication. The growing use of collaborative technologies – from mobile devices and social media to virtualization and cloud computing – will continue to be one of the most significant factors impacting the security landscape. For these reasons, the federal government has increased efforts to minimize and prevent cyber security attacks, and will continue to place signific...

Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamlessly and maneuver easily. No matter what technology is touted, or how service oriented and agile the applications are -- especially cloud-based or SAAS environments -- technology systems must be designed and implemented to support the business or mission and enable processes. If integrated IT systems don't work or fail, the...

With the continuing 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. Join government and industry experts at this 14th Annual event -- which is free for government professionals -- who will discuss current technology-base...

A good portion of the annual Federal IT spend is allocated to keep legacy systems functioning, draining precious funds away from modernizing systems and capabilities. Costs to maintain these end-of-life systems continue to grow as they age, leaving systems increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats. In 2017, the trend will be to retire expensive legacy IT systems and modernize information technology systems so agencies can (1) more easily achiev...

OMB, DHS, Department of Defense (DoD), Committee of National Security Systems (CNSS), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made major advances in improving the security of Federal information technology (IT) systems. They have created new standards, processes, and solutions that are streamlining and automating security and moving us closer to the goal of total near-real-time security awareness. At the end of this...

Cloud Computing continues to grow in importance in the public sector. Agency personnel responsible for developing and implementing cloud-based solutions -- for implementing data center consolidation and other technology efficiencies -- continue to look for opportunities to learn about the best technologies, configurations, service and deployment models and appropriate mix of cloud services -- based on their government agency requirements. Digi...

During this online session, Mark Patrick, Chief, Information Management Division, Joint Staff Secretariat, will discuss records management as a subset of a holistic approach to managing all of an organization’s data. Whether electronic, paper, or resident in the minds of its employees, an organization’s business information must be instantaneously accessible so senior leaders can make data-driven decisions at the speed their jobs r...

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last four 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...