DevSecOps is the cultural transformation and collaboration between development, security, and operations teams to deliver value quickly, securely, and with resiliency to achieve mission objectives. DevSecOps promotes “shift-left” development methodologies which encourage security-preparations start at the very beginning of application development and carry through to the supply chain to detect potential vulnerabilities and complian...

Schools educate our nation's future so school administrators must navigate numerous challenges outside their control. With a reported 67 million malware attacks against education institutions during a typical 30-day stretch*, one major challenge is that K-12 institutions easy targets for cybersecurity attacks. These attacks have risen since the Covid-19 pandemic forced remote learning, and a new form of highly evasive adaptive threats (HEAT) u...

Our nation’s K-12 schools are data-rich, but often resource-poor. That combination makes them very attractive targets for ransomware attacks. The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, part of the Center for Internet Security, just released a new report that 29% of its member organization reported being victims of ransomware attacks – and the rapid expansion of remote learning in response to the pandemic has only made...

This is an invitation-only event, open to Public Sector only. For more information or to request an invitation, please contact Jeremy Smith. The 21st annual CUNY IT Conference will convene this fall! The conference brings together faculty and administration from across the CUNY system to discuss IT.

How can you put analytics capabilities to work regardless of analytics maturity? Data and analytics leaders must know when and how to combine predictive and prescriptive analytics to gain a competitive advantage in the education industry. Join this complimentary data and analytics webinar, where our Gartner expert will guide you through observed outcomes from higher education to illustrate how to put data to work for your institution. You will...

When you register for NJSBA’s Workshop 2022, you will be joining thousands of school leaders and affirming your commitment to public education. Did you know that the annual fall Workshop has provided training to K-12 public school officials for nearly 70 years in New Jersey? Our education community has persevered through wars, watershed court decisions, and now — a pandemic. Through it all, NJSBA has remained steadfast and laser-fo...

Don’t let CMMC jeopardize your research funding! Let Splunk and Qmulos do the heavy lifting for you. You’ve got the funding. We’ve got the solution. Qmulos is excited to be hosting a virtual thought leadership discussion, regarding CMMC 2.0, and how using the right technology stack can simplify and ensure security measures. As CMMC adoption progresses, leaders will increasingly depend on real-time, continuous assessment and c...

State and local government agencies and universities and other academic institutions storing their mission-critical and sensitive data in Salesforce. However, many organizations are doing so without a proper understanding of risks and vulnerabilities, nor with the visibility and oversight needed from InfoSec and Compliance teams. The Security Risk Assessments (SRAs) inform OwnBackup's annual Salesforce Data Risk Report that have helped some of...

International bots, troll farms, shepherds: they have been active on social media for more than a decade, but in recent divisive years, they’ve really come to the forefront for law enforcement agencies. While trying to manage an already difficult online landscape, police social media managers found themselves trying to cope with an avalanche of questionably legitimate social media accounts trying to sew discord in their communities. Part...

Even before the pandemic, U.S. K-12 school districts were undergoing a digital transformation - digitizing paper-based processes and adopting ‘smart’ technologies for core services, including facilities management, transportation, HR and staffing, business services, and teaching and learning. The pandemic accelerated those trends, in support of providing online learning to children sheltering at home. But this also means that schoo...