In this roundtable discussion with federal IT pros, InformationWeek Government will explore the opportunities and challenges of creating private clouds in government data centers. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra wants government agencies to adopt cloud computing as a way of cutting costs, gaining efficiencies and quickly introducing new capabilities to federal employees and the public. Commercial cloud services are one way to do that, but government...

Congress has established a National Office for Cybersecurity at the White House, now requires federal agencies to conduct independent audits of their information security programs, and has established new policies for agency acquisition and procurement. Two years ago, Congressman Mike McCaul co-founded the first-ever House Cyber Security Caucus to address these areas of oversight and inconsistency. Join Congressman McCaul in a moderated discus...

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) announced keynotes and speakers for the 5th Annual Online Trust and Cybersecurity Forum being hosted at Georgetown University September 22-24 in Washington DC. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity leader and presidential advisor Howard Schmidt are scheduled provides morning kickoffs. Later that morning, Greg Link of Franklin Covey will provide a keynote on the Speed of Trust, the New Yo...

Online Trust & Cybersecurity Forum Washington DC Sept 22-24 Celebrating our 5th Anniversary, the 2010 Online Trust & Cybersecurity Forum at Georgetown University will highlight practices to build consumer trust and help protect your business from abuse and exploits. Sessions are designed to provide a framework, practices and technologies to maximize consumer trust, brand reputation and data security. Participants will receive prescript...

Achieve Information Dominance Using RIAs Join us September 21-22 for a 3-Part discussion, demonstration, and education! Attend the FREE hands-on training seminar “Delivering Command Information to the Tactical Edge,” on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 21-22, 2010 at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City in Arlington, VA. We will bring together military program managers, application developers, and technology and information-sharing expe...

The NDIA Legislative Information Division (LID) is sponsoring a Breakfast in honor of the National Aerospace Week. The goal of the National Aerospace Week is to highlight the important contributions of the defense industry with a series of events, September 12-18, 2010 in Washington DC. NDIA POC: Debra Stockton, dstockton@ndia.org or (703) 247-2595

Overview According to recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates, losses from waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs cost the government upwards of $90 billion annually. President Obama has made reducing these losses a major priority of his administration. On November 23, 2009, the President Obama issued Executive Order 13519, “Reducing Improper Payments and Eliminating Waste in Federal programs.” On March 22, 20...

Sheppard Mullin, Trust Strategy Group and Charles River Associates Present: The 2010 UK Bribery Act (FCPA On Steroids) V. The Reinvigorated FCPA -- Who Has the Bigger Stick! After thirty years of arguably lackluster application of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the U.S. Department of Justice has now escalated its position on corruption and bribery in international business and re-defined it as a “national security issue....

Join us for an informative technology symposium at the beautiful JJ Moakley Courthouse, in the heart of Boston's waterfront Seaport District. Learn how your organization can achieve enterprise-wide security with centralized management and complete visibility. Today's threats touch every area of the Enterprise - from email, to endpoints, to web gateways to servers. As attackers are adopting new techniques, the technology required to protect ou...

The NDIA Legislative Information Division (LID) Breakfast Brief series offers both Industry and Goverment participants from the Small Bussiness community to Large Corporations the opportunity to network with and hear from Congessional leaders, Top Military Officials, and Governement and Industry Speakers who brief us on many pressing issues and topics of today. The Brief allows time for questions and answers and all comments are strictly off t...