Leveraging both cloud and hybrid environments has become more prevalent as agencies transform how they manage data and work towards their cloud smart goals. This modernization allows flexibility and supports the operational needs of Federal agencies’ missions. Migrating towards a full cloud environment is not a new topic, as decades of work has been done to ensure that Federal agencies can utilize off-site storage securely, but there can...

Government and education IT teams are dealing with an explosion in demand for accessible databases, fueled by the deluge of new unstructured data, structured data, and application development. Whether enterprise apps, mobile, or newer technologies such as wearables and virtual reality devices, the velocity and volume of application growth will continue to expand. In fact, IDC predicts there will be 750 million applications by 2026. Apps and t...

The Top 10 list of enterprise risks facing CIOs in state, local, tribal and territorial agencies is both comprehensive and disturbing, covering everything from cybersecurity to compliance to workforce. High on that list is the technology, including how to manage and work with their cloud portfolios. These public agencies are looking to manage their data in public and private clouds, hybrid clouds or multi-clouds, whether on a daily basis, thro...

State and local governments identify moving to the cloud and incorporating artificial as high on their list of priorities. For instance, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency started using AI and analytics to import weather data in real time and develop a base analysis, which the agency’s meteorologists review and revise. This creates forecasts for weather alerts that can be sent quickly to vulnerable populations, including locations ou...

Federal agencies have embraced cloud strategies as foundational to their transition to digital government, but their approaches come in many different flavors of cloud. As they’ve come to see the benefits, more agencies are adopting a hybrid cloud structure – one or more public and private cloud services that operate as separate but integrated entities. Hybrid cloud provides the cost optimization, agility and scalability of public...

According to the National Association of State CIOs, the top two enterprise risks faced by state governments in 2022 are cybersecurity and technology. Cybersecurity includes everything from data protection and ransomware to identity theft and stolen network credentials. Technology risks include aging or obsolete systems, data management, and handling cloud portfolios, to name a few. Addressing these risks is part of modernizing and transformin...

Tune into this panel to hear as topic experts discuss the importance of Identity Management within federal agencies and how the hybrid workforce has affected it. What best practices do these topic experts recommend to help best protect data? How can government agencies implement an effective Identity Security model to minimize risk and keep pace with adversaries? What are best practices for Privileged Access Management controls? Listen as subj...

Tune into this event to hear from Federal topic experts on the reasons to migrate to the cloud, common migration experiences, and the benefits cloud migration can bring. What lessons have these topic experts learned while making the shift to the cloud? What challenges did they face? What best strategies did they have to put in place to overcome these challenges? And how have they kept the cloud secure for their agencies? Join this summit as to...

Cloud Services: US Marshals Service (USMS) delivery of Law Enforcement Mission The journey from concept to plan to operational services is challenging in any environment, introducing the challenges of security and deputy safety adds to the complexity. Add the demands of various physical environments and 24x7 availability and you have complexity square. Mr. Bruner who has led that journey for the USMS will share with us their experience, challe...

While government agencies continue their migration to the cloud, concerns about security continue. A recent survey by Fidelis Cybersecurity found that 95% of cybersecurity professionals are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. Their top three concerns: misconfiguration of the cloud platform (71%), exfiltration of sensitive data (59%), and insecure APIs (54%). These are the fears that haunt government IT professionals,...