In this roundtable discussion with federal IT pros, InformationWeek Government will explore the opportunities and challenges of creating private clouds in government data centers. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra wants government agencies to adopt cloud computing as a way of cutting costs, gaining efficiencies and quickly introducing new capabilities to federal employees and the public. Commercial cloud services are one way to do that, but government...

In this roundtable discussion with federal IT pros, InformationWeek Government will explore the opportunities and challenges of creating private clouds in government data centers. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra wants government agencies to adopt cloud computing as a way of cutting costs, gaining efficiencies and quickly introducing new capabilities to federal employees and the public. Commercial cloud services are one way to do that, but government...

Congress has established a National Office for Cybersecurity at the White House, now requires federal agencies to conduct independent audits of their information security programs, and has established new policies for agency acquisition and procurement. Two years ago, Congressman Mike McCaul co-founded the first-ever House Cyber Security Caucus to address these areas of oversight and inconsistency. Join Congressman McCaul in a moderated discus...

Online Trust & Cybersecurity Forum Washington DC Sept 22-24 Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, the 2010 Online Trust & Cybersecurity Forum at Georgetown University will highlight practices to build consumer trust and help protect your business from abuse and exploits. Sessions are designed to provide a framework, practices and technologies to maximize consumer trust, brand reputation and data security. Participants will receive prescript...

The NDIA Legislative Information Division (LID) is sponsoring a Breakfast in honor of the National Aerospace Week. The goal of the National Aerospace Week is to highlight the important contributions of the defense industry with a series of events, September 12-18, 2010 in Washington DC. NDIA POC: Debra Stockton, dstockton@ndia.org or (703) 247-2595

Overview According to recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates, losses from waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs cost the government upwards of $90 billion annually. President Obama has made reducing these losses a major priority of his administration. On November 23, 2009, the President Obama issued Executive Order 13519, “Reducing Improper Payments and Eliminating Waste in Federal programs.” On March 22, 20...

Join us for an informative technology symposium at the beautiful JJ Moakley Courthouse, in the heart of Boston's waterfront Seaport District. Learn how your organization can achieve enterprise-wide security with centralized management and complete visibility. Today's threats touch every area of the Enterprise - from email, to endpoints, to web gateways to servers. As attackers are adopting new techniques, the technology required to protect ou...

Keep up with the latest in archiving, storage, and backup for Symantec Enterprise Vault! Please join us for our Enterprise Vault User Forum on Wednesday, September 1, 2010, in Washington, DC. During this workshop, you will have the opportunity to network with your peers, share ideas, and learn more about advanced topics in Enterprise Vault (EV) related to architecture, best practices, and integration with Exchange 2010. We will also give an ov...

Government I.T. Made Simple...A Study of the Government Case for Security, Virtualization & Storage Agenda: Keynote VIP Guest Speaker: Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in-Charge (SAC) FBI’s Boston Field Office. IT Security & its’ ‘Happening Now’ impact on the Public Sector to reduce victimization & build security awareness. McAfee: Dave Marcus, Director, Security Research and Communications McAfee Labs McAf...

InformationWeek Government, HP and Intel invite you to be our guest at the half-day forum "Making the Private Cloud Real" on June 9th as we exchange ideas and strategies for creating an internal cloud. At this event, federal IT managers will discuss how they're moving from the conception of a dynamic, on-demand IT environment to implementation.