Day 2 Focus: USCG, DHS, State Department Learn how COVID-19 will reshape the business of government in the national security community. Be informed and engaged about how COVID-19 will restructure the four specialty areas that drive the business of government; personnel, acquisition, financial management, and information technology, in the national security community. This 5-part series will explore how the national security community will fulf...

In February, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its strategic plan. Through CISA’s #PROTECT2020 initiative, the lead federal agency responsible for national election security is enhancing the integrity and resilience of the Nation’s election infrastructure, and ensuring the confidentiality, truthfulness, and accuracy of the free and fair elections necessary f...

Government employees face communications risks daily, and the potential negative ramifications are staggering. While strong protections have been in place a long time for classified desk phone calls, it is significantly more difficult to provide these protections on mobile phones. Field-deployed personnel will soon have greater bandwidth on their mobile devices than they have at their desks today. This webinar will take an in-depth look at gov...

Agencies are vying for IT modernization funds to tap into emerging technological trends to drive performance advancements and enhance security in public services while being mindful of taking a cloud-first approach. DevOps, agile, APIs, and more are underpinning technological change across government. This webinar will closely examine how agencies can meet the mandate for IT modernization today.

The Department of Defense’s mission is to deliver interoperable and secure information warfare capability by acquiring and integrating sensors, communications, weapons, information and control systems for mission success. This educational webinar will discuss how Infrastructure as a Service is transforming the way government delivers modern IT and best practices that other agencies can model.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, about one-sixth of Federal government spending goes to national defense. Our nation’s National Defense Strategy recognizes the increasingly complex security environment and the profound effect of rapid technological change. The drive to develop new technologies is relentless, and moving at accelerating speed. New technologies such as advanced computing, “big data” analytics, the c...

The use of video surveillance has become an imperative part of securing our society: Military and intelligence agencies conduct aerial surveillance, terrain mapping, and urban reconnaissance via video surveillance. Mass transit monitoring is taking place in airports, in-bus cameras, train stations, and freight trains. Law enforcement agencies are using dashboard and body-mounted cameras, license plate recognition, prison and detention and dron...

Whether to open government for greater transparency, secure Federal buildings, networks and IoT, or improve healthcare delivery, public sector technologists have staggering workloads. Regardless of the mission, modernizing entries operations are a first step in enabling the connected government. This briefing will touch on critical aspects of technology modernization that can affect engagement, secure networks, the smart city, and healthcare I...

Government agencies have a combination of policy, technology and workforce requirements to address when mapping the framework for mobile security within their agencies. Security options are available at both the hardware and software levels and include encryption, rooted trust, kernel protection, and containerization. While crafting their security set-ups, technology staff also has to remember that users – real, live people – have...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security notes that the federal enterprise depends on information technology systems and computer networks for essential operations. These systems face large and diverse cyber threats that range from unsophisticated hackers to technically competent intruders using state-of-the-art intrusion techniques. Many malicious attacks are designed to steal information and disrupt, deny access to, degrade, or destroy criti...