Why growth in your IAM environment can lead to less security and chaos: Optiv and our partners invite you to an informative lunch to learn about why adding more IAM can reduce risk and chaos to your security environment. Breaches increased in 2016 by forty percent despite increased spending on security. Compromised credentials and insider threats continue to be a leading cause. If you’ve been taking a reactive approach to security, it's...

CyberTalks is a TED-like conference bringing together top cybersecurity chiefs and 1,000 of the most influential cyber leaders from government and the tech industry for one day to identify ways to tackle unprecedented security challenges and discuss cybersecurity priorities, trends and innovations.

Join us for DC CyberWeek (October 16 - 20, 2017), a week-long SXSW-style festival in our nation's capital bringing together leaders, experts, and decision makers from the gov and tech communities. The festival features dozens of community events, complemented by core conferences and parties created by the festival organizer, CyberScoop. DC CyberWeek is about big ideas and coming together to make an impact on the greater good of our connected w...

Advanced Capabilities for Better Decision-Making Department of Defense and intelligence organizations have only just begun to tap the potential of advanced analytics to strengthen national security. Early efforts have demonstrated the ability of analytic tools to collect and sift through large volumes of diverse data and gain better insight into a given problem or environment. But so much more can be done. Government and military leaders have...

Securing a 21st century government – from the data center to the cloud to the web – means exercising greater control over the uncontrollable. The reality of today’s instant access, always-on world means that a lot can – and often does – go wrong. So, how can our government remain focused on combatting increasingly sophisticated cyber threats while accelerating service and mission delivery with integrated intellige...

Proactive Approaches For Getting Ahead of Cyber Risk Defense and federal networks continue to be successfully attacked, often via cybersecurity blind spots that enable hackers and malware to gain entry to data. These blind spots consist of aging software and hardware assets that reside on federal networks and desktops that are end-of-life (EOL), not approved, or not properly configured. Illustrating the scale of the problem, Federal CIO Tony S...

Join MITRE and the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center on November 17 at the MITRE campus in McLean, VA for a morning of brainstorming and whiteboarding on Internet of Things topics of importance to the Federal Government. The MITRE-ATARC Internet of Things Collaboration Symposium will features IoT subject matter experts from government, academia and private industry. The outcomes of these interactive sessions will be compiled in a Wh...

Overview: This Executive Breakfast will explore how government department and agency CIOs and CISOs can work with CSOs to innovate and integrate logical and physical identity and access systems into a strategic asset to protect information and facilities. While the office of the CIO has traditionally had a limited role in deploying and securing physical access control systems, increasingly government directives are changing that. OMB M-11-11,...

Please join us to hear leaders in the public and private sector discuss how the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) and other government agencies are developing innovative security cooperation solutions and how industry can help support U.S. interests.

A panel of executives from small and former small businesses will discuss practical strategies in preparing for and thriving in a government contracting environment increasingly focused on the ability to provide cybersecurity-related services, and also assure appropriate security safeguards have been implemented internally. We will cover: Negotiating flowdown obligations under the DoD's new Network Penetration Reporting Rules, which require re...