According to Gartner, 50% of all network attacks will hide in internet traffic by 2017. This so-called SSL encrypted traffic is pervasive and while it can improve the security of data, it also bypasses most policy enforcement points. This creates a significant data security, privacy and compliance risk for government agencies. Indeed, hackers can evade 80% of agency network defenses by tunneling attacks in encrypted traffic. Our citizens and i...

The delivery of infrastructure assets over the cloud is one of the most significant trends in IT today, and the White House's Office of Management and Budget projects that federal agencies will spend more than $2.8 billion on cloud computing services in fiscal year 2015. Driving this movement to the cloud is the need for greater computing performance and efficiency with a reduction in risk and cost. Middleware plays a pivotal role in integrati...

As more and more agencies move commodity IT and now mission critical apps to the cloud, integration and modernization of software is becoming more important. This panel will focus on how agencies are taking this challenge on and the role open source and platform-as-a-service could play in this effort. The panel also will look at the challenges of integrated legacy systems in the cloud and with new apps. Using examples from the public sector, t...

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) has become essential as attacks on federal networks have become increasingly sophisticated, aggressive, and persistent. The next phase of the CDM program (Phase II) will address a people problem – preventing employees from accessing government data they don’t need -- and infrastructure integrity. The final phase (Phase III) will concentrate on handling actual breaches, as well as encrypti...

As agencies move both their business and mission critical applications to the cloud, integration and modernization of software have become increasingly important. Government agencies are now using middleware to tie together data, devices and applications. As a result, new applications are deployed at lower risk, greater speed, and with better performance. This webinar will focus on the middleware tools agencies are using to integrate disparate...

Featuring Mark Ryland. In this presentation, accompanied by live demonstrations, Mark will make the case that the automation and scale of true utility-style cloud computing enables customers to build more secure systems than they can typically build on-premises at any reasonable cost. About ISSA-NOVA and Membership Information The Information Systems Security Association Northern Virginia Chapter (ISSA-NOVA), chartered in August 2002, represen...