In celebration of the Women's History Month, and the women who inspire us, please join us for a breakfast panel and peer learning circles, "Women2Women: How We Do It", scheduled to take place from 8-10 a.m. (EST) on Thursday, March 27, 2014, at the GW Foggy Bottom Campus. The discussion will focus on how women support each other in a multi-sector environment. All attendees will have an opportunity to share and ask questions through peer learni...

BREAKFAST BRIEFINGFederal Cybersecurity Update: Managing Information Security Risk Through CDM Continuous Monitoring as a Service Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) has become essential as attacks on federal networks have become ever more sophisticated, aggressive, and persistent. The CDM Program is intended to transform the way federal organizations manage cyber threats to their networks through strategically sourced tools and servic...

Oversight and Enforcement: The Role of Analytics in Crime Every day, oceans of information become available to enforcement and audit organizations, providing invaluable insight to enforcement organizations across government. The job of turning data into intelligence is the role of business analytics. Deciphering criminal patterns, surveillance, and tracking data are also playing a role in prevention. These enable enforcement officials to pred...

The Intersection of Customer Service and Security in the Cloud For the past two years, agencies have been making the jump to the cloud. Many first made the jump to the cloud for back-office systems, such as email or Web hosting. But more recently, agencies are seeing value in putting mission critical IT systems in the cloud. At the same time, federal chief information officers still are coming to terms with how cloud providers secure their pub...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, Where, When, Why? The Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy opens the door for agencies to take full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine different cloud services or legacy systems, they need a seamless form of integration. The result is the exploration of C...

The Data Privacy Imperative: Safeguarding Sensitive Data Recent data breaches have broad-reaching and costly impacts that erode public trust, jeopardize national security, destabilize mission critical activities, and result in significant financial loss. Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore how agencies are protecting sensitive data, reducing risk and curtailing...

Today’s government is looking to transform itself through modernization and innovation. At the heart of this transformation are the government employees, the citizens they serve, and their ability to affordably connect, share, and communicate securely from any location and on any device. Join us to hear about techniques and technologies that are fostering inter-agency and cross-agency cooperation and maximizing citizen engagement. *Trai...

The Intersection of Culture and Technology: A Roadmap to Citizen-Centric Government With advancements in technology and service delivery, government agencies are faced with the challenge to keep pace with rising expectations from the public to deliver the same level of service received in the private sector or better. Government agencies are facing with a cultural shift that shapes a new citizen engagement strategy involving technology, policy...

Agency Innovation: Making Mobile Government a Reality The Challenge: The digital strategy underscored new ways for government to interact with citizens, soldiers, and staff. This shift to mobile apps, cloud services, and other innovations comes with risk. To keep pace with the mobile innovation, the Administration charged agencies with developing flagship mobile services and making data available in user-friendly formats. FedInsider will bring...

Government Mobility: Catalyst for Change This event is open to government employees only. The Challenge: Studies show that 40% of Federal website visitors navigated there using a smartphone or tablet. Mobility in government is more than just a change in platform; it is a catalyst for a new way of reaching citizens with diverse mobile services, datasets and APIs. This briefing will explore ways that agencies are taking action to meet goals to m...