The persistence of nation-state actors has introduced a threat to America’s cybersecurity landscape that has never been seen before. Ample countermeasures have been prescribed through various White House, DoD, and CISA guidance that places responsibility on government and private industry to follow these new guidelines for the development of secure software. As we turn the corner toward the close of the federal fiscal year and begin cybe...

Government entities hold massive amounts of data within their cyber walls. Utilizing and protecting this data is a top priority for leaders across government. As agencies strive to reach new heights in efficiency and effectiveness, new techniques for managing and accessing this very data are coming to the forefront. Most notably, how can leaders translate the data from collection and storage to decision making and action? How are leaders lever...

Federal agencies across government have started the shift in mindset from just patching and remediation to truly transformative cybersecurity modernization. There is no better example than the move to developing zero trust architecture governmentwide. While every agency is in a different stage of its ZT implementation journey, there are key guideposts and best practices that every federal IT and security team should be following to optimize th...

OT security is finally getting its due attention and priority. As asset owners and OT security architects face growing risks and pressure to connect and converge their networks with those of IT, they need support from their leadership more than ever. Join Claroty and ICIT for a discussion of how CISOs can support these crucial teams to effectively secure these critical networks. Filtering out the noise of doomsday predictions, we offer CISOs p...

CYBERSCOOP PRESENTS CYBERWEEK Join over 10,000 influential leaders from the cybersecurity community at CyberWeek, the nation’s largest week-long cybersecurity festival focused on digital threats, best practices and the U.S. government’s work on improving cyberspace. CyberWeek is an annual movement bringing together top C-Suite leaders from major technology companies, state and federal government agencies, and other influential deci...

ICIT Virtual Briefing: Software Supply Chain Security – Balancing Internal Orchestration with Attack Vectors Along with security controls and AppSec policies, the way you and your teams treat the software you build over time impacts the speed at which you can react to a threat. The truth is that open source software (OSS) is often treated as if it isn’t a security problem—until it is. The log4j vulnerability and the subsequen...

Modernization is a Journey, not a Destination. Federal agencies raced to update their systems and move as many programs as possible to the cloud during the pandemic. But federal leaders realize that modernization is a continuing process that includes, but is not limited to, updating IT equipment and data centers. It also means upgrading networks and connections, software and services, security, workforce, and acquisition processes. At this sum...

Welcome to AGA's 2022 Internal Control & Fraud Prevention Training! The Internal Control & Fraud Prevention Training focuses on management’s responsibility for ensuring good systems of internal control, and the role of accountability professionals to minimize the risk of fraud, waste and abuse. Leaders in government and private industry discuss the latest discovery techniques, lessons learned and how governments are cooperating t...

Join us for this fireside chat where Nic Chaillan, former Chief Software Officer for the US Air Force, and Gary Barlet, Federal Field CTO for Illumio, discuss the EO's implementation, how the private sector responded to the request for support, and ongoing implementation needs and challenges. May 2022 marks the 1st anniversary of Executive Order 14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity" which tasked Government agencies with adopting best pr...

The May 12, 2021 White House Executive Order 14028 and subsequent Office of Management and Budget Memo M-22-09 set forth a Federal Zero Trust Architecture strategy and a new baseline for access controls. In order to reinforce the government’s defenses against increasingly sophisticated and persistent threat campaigns, agencies are now required to meet specific cybersecurity standards and objectives by the end of fiscal year 2024. M-22-09...