GIST24 explores the missions, strategies, and operational goals that government agencies face in delivering successful mission outcomes and meeting the needs and expectations of citizens and other stakeholders, and the major role that AI is playing. Gartner foresees a transformative shift in 2024, projecting that 60% of government investments in AI and data analytics will directly shape operational decisions and outcomes. GIST24 unravels pract...

Experience the Future of Digital Transformation at the Zscaler Public Sector Summit on April 4, 2024! The summit is a premier event that's quickly become a landmark in the world of cybersecurity. If you haven't experienced it yet, 2024 is the perfect year to start! Here’s what makes the Zscaler Public Sector Summit an unmissable event: Inspirational Keynotes: Prepare to be inspired by a lineup of industry pioneers, including our visionar...

Threat remediation encompasses a series of risk prevention steps to know how best to act when defending your surface systems from data breaches and financial disruption. This workshop is to help inform and advise SOC professionals on an agnostic, interoperable, risk adverse way to prioritize and measure the impact to your end-to-end incident response framework and act on ways it can be improved through trusted, targeted use of AI and Automation.

Cybersecurity is a cornerstone of the Biden administration’s priorities and has never been more important to securing the nation’s infrastructure and data from cyber threats than it is today. Government IT leaders must remain vigilant against near-constant cyber threats while maintaining legacy systems and securing a remote workforce. In this workshop, Nextgov/FCW will examine the most important trends in cybersecurity across the f...

The long awaited executive guidance on artificial intelligence has been released by the current administration and Federal agencies have wasted little time getting to work. With the frameworks outlined in the executive order, agencies have started implementing the guidance into their operational networks, recognizing the imperative of swiftly integrating AI-focused strategies to enhance the resilience and effectiveness of their cybersecurity m...

Public sector organizations continue to face a constant barrage of sophisticated cyber threats. And with new cybersecurity mandates and guidance — from recent executive orders to the release of the 2023 National Cyber Strategy — public sector leaders must make considerable decisions about their cyber enterprise that will have lasting impacts for years to come. On top of this, the emergence of novel security capabilities built on ma...

Florida is the third-largest state in the U.S. by population, and it continues to grow rapidly – from 2010 to 2020, its population grew by 14.5%. That kind of growth rate might be the envy of other states, but it also means increased pressure on the state government to deliver internet-based, user-friendly services for everything from child support services to renewing business licenses. To accomplish this transformation in state governm...

DESCRIPTION: Government and industry leaders are embracing an accelerated pace of Change. Digital Transformation is an approach they use to identify potential disruptions, create or modify status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience, to meet the evolving challenges and promote used in government and industry to create or modify the status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience to meet he evolving...

Zero-trust cybersecurity has been the Administration’s goal for a few years now. So that begs the question, what are the current and most pressing threats that are waging war against the zero-trust methodology? Join us online Wednesday, Feb. 7 from 2-2:50 p.m. ET/11-11:50 a.m. PT to hear from government and industry experts about the current threat landscape and what should be on your radar for 2024.

Zero Trust is a must for most federal civilian agencies in 2024, with the Biden administration’s directive for agencies to adopt at least some level of zero trust architecture by September. Faced with challenges in everything from automation and modernization to the hybrid work environment, today’s IT and cyber leaders aim to mitigate risk by adopting the latest zero trust security solutions to secure their endpoints and protect th...