Today’s organizations and federal agencies have to protect their sensitive data from their own – it’s a simple fact of IT life these days. Thorough cybersecurity plans naturally protect an agency's secret or sensitive information from outsiders, but it’s become all too obvious in recent years that federal cybersecurity efforts must also safeguard that vital data from trusted insiders. Through malicious action or neglige...

COMPLIMENTARY BRIEFING The Watchful Eye: Mitigating Risk in the Cloud Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Time: 8:00 - 10:30 AMCost: Complimentary Credits: 3 CPEs/CEUs Focus: Government agencies are adopting a Cloud First approach to do more with existing resources while rapidly opening up new ways to meet citizens’ demands to engage with agencies online. Using a pay-as-you-go model, agencies can now access a broad portfolio of middleware...

Security cleared professionals please join us at the Cleared Job Fair Thursday, November 20, from 11am - 3pm at the DoubleTree Crystal City. Our cleared facilities employers include Castro & Company, Engility, Geneva Software, General Dynamics – IT, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Riverside Research, Tanager and more! Opportunities for Information Security, Cyber Security, Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, Help Desk, Program and Projec...

In 2009, President Obama said, “America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity.” Despite efforts to improve the government’s ability to thwart cyberattacks, threats like malware, phishing, advanced persistent threats and zero day attacks are continuing to become more common. Cyber professionals are at the core of solving or at least curbing some of these serious issues. But who are these cyber...

The AFCEA Washington, DC monthly luncheon series draws between 350-400 senior officers and IT professionals from across the Department of Defense, armed services, intelligence and civilian agencies to discuss topics of interest to the DOD IT community ranging from IT networks to mobility to cybersecurity to UAS/sensors. The goals of the event are to foster better joint warfighting communication, share best practices and lessons learned, and id...

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...

I N T E R S T E L L A R brings science fiction and space travel to the big screen with an all-star cast and a noble goal: to save humanity.Being science fiction fans, the team at Quantum is proud to invite you to this exclusive movie premiere event for IT professionals. Before the movie, you'll hear briefly how we are committed to help our customers change the world, every day.Quantum is a leading expert in scale-out storage, archive and data...

Statistics imply that everyone will have their identity compromised within their lifetime, and those stolen identities will be used to commit fraud, often targeted at government programs. Agencies need to protect their programs and taxpayers against these identity schemes. With today’s challenging economic climate, federal, state and local government agencies are facing heightened pressure to reduce costs and improve effectiveness with f...

This workshop will be held at the SECRET/U.S. ONLY classification. A security clearance is required for admittance. Please refer to the instructions on the red "Security Clearance" tab. The NDIA C4ISR Division will convene a DoD Hard Problems Workshop as a forum for government and industry senior technologists, product engineers and strategists to review and exchange information on what have been identified as “hard problems” facin...

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...