Cybersecurity is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation, but one that we as a government and as a country are not adequately prepared to counter. Spurred by the Administration, government is charging ahead to establish a front line of defense against today's immediate threats by creating or enhancing shared situation awareness of network vulnerabilities, threats, and events within the Federal gove...

The Chief Financial Officers Act requires all Federal agencies to produce a clean financial statement on their budgets. The 2017 deadline for the military services is still four years away, and the Marines entered 2014 as the first to reach that milestone. Federal leaders face expanding mission requirements and shrinking resources, and internal controls and robust management are the necessary underpinnings of success. Relying on examples from...

The Department of Homeland Security plays a leading role in mandating the Federal Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program to provide agencies visibility into their networks and identify cyber threats. Many agencies have implemented a number of security tools, and they are moving toward new methods to aggregate and analyze the collected data for a holistic picture of their security posture. Join us for a discussion between public an...

Federal agencies face ever growing volume and diversity in their data. And they’re being asked to do more with the data they do have. Data must be more open, too, such as the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act 2014, signed into law on May 9, which requires federal agencies to publish their spending data in a standardized, machine-readable format that the public can access through USASpending.gov. Roughly 90% of the data in the w...

This webinar series is the result of an in-depth survey of North American government communicators. Hear from government communicators about what keeps government communicators up at night, where they find inspiration and creativity, how technology is being used to be more efficient and effective, and what innovation means to government agencies today. Join the National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) and FedInsider and learn ho...

Technology and communications approaches change rapidly, and government contracting tools can become outdated, no longer meeting the purpose they were originally designed to serve. Innovative networking advances such as unified communications and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are approaching the threshold of mainstream adoption by commercial companies with 50% of companies projected to implement them by year's end. How are agencies ensuring the...

You and your team are invited to learn how your peers across North America are taking a more effective path to drive greater value despite lean budgets and resources. BACKGROUND This complimentary webinar explores one of government communicators' top concerns--being effective in their efforts to reach their target audience. Using data from the National Association of Government Communicators and FedInsider News' in-depth survey of North Americ...

Join the National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) and FedInsider and learn how communicators are adopting new techniques and tools to drive greater value in this highly volatile digital world. This webinar explores one of government communicators' top concerns—finding the inspiration and creativity to keep up with the changing digital landscape. Taking data from NAGC and Fed Insider's in-depth survey of North American gov...

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JOIN US FOR THIS COMPLIMENTARY WEBINAR The Administration’s big data initiative looks to harness huge quantities of data to accelerate the pace of discovery in science and engineering, strengthen our national security and transform teaching and learning. These data stores are characterized by a mix of relational/structured data and non-structured files such as video, images, PDFs, and office documents. A number of new solutions are emerg...