The strength of our country depends on a strong military and an effective government. The chain of command needs visibility to all aspects of force readiness from recruiting, education, and promotions to details on awards, passports, visas, personnel and legal matters. How can agencies break down data barriers to achieve a 360 degree view of their workforce? This webinar will explore how to use data to capture and report on the current state o...

Federal IT organizations have made strides since the Cloud First mandate of 2011, and Forrester Research has named 2017 the year of the enterprise cloud. While the new Administration determines its vision for Federal IT, we know certain requirements will remain: cost efficiency, security, flexibility, and simplicity. Technologies like hyperconverged infrastructure and enterprise cloud have proven to be a practical and widely adopted approach t...

Today’s technologies offer government agencies numerous ways to cut operating costs, improve service delivery, strengthen national security, and enhance mission performance. Government’s increased reliance on technology has expanded the attack potential. By every measure, attacks on government systems are growing in sophistication and numbers. At the same time, IT systems are growing more complex — and more difficult to defen...

The government acquisition process is built for more traditional on-premise systems deployment. In essence, Cloud is a nothing more than a way of buying technology – but the technology doesn’t change, it’s still servers, it’s still storage, and it’s still a method for addressing the agency’s business challenges through IT. Whether buying cloud variations such as software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service a...

Government organizations collect, process, and disseminate vast quantities of internal and external information. Regardless of mission, agencies share similar challenges when extracting value from data to improve services, make better decisions and support policy development. This webinar will explore how government agencies are using cloud-based technology for cost-effective and secure disaster recovery. We’ll Discuss: Discuss how agenc...

Continuity of Operations (COOP) is the initiative that ensures that Federal Government departments and agencies are able to continue operation of their essential functions under a broad range of circumstances including all-hazard emergencies as well as natural, man-made, and technological threats and national security emergencies. Today’s threat environment makes COOP planning even more critical. This webinar will explore how government...

Government agencies have a combination of policy, technology and workforce requirements to address when mapping the framework for mobile security within their agencies. Security options are available at both the hardware and software levels and include encryption, rooted trust, kernel protection, and containerization. While crafting their security set-ups, technology staff also has to remember that users – real, live people – have...

The Presidential Directive on Managing Government Records (M-12-18) has elevated the records management conversation – prioritizing the idea that records are truly the lifeblood of an organization—and must be organized, managed and protected appropriately to ultimately drive maximum return on information (ROI). This timely conversation is critical as the explosion of information growth continues at an exponential rate and new forms...

Five years after the launch of the Administration’s cloud first policy, government CIOs still face procurement, management, and security obstacles when moving to the cloud. Some of the challenges involve changes in responsibility between industry partners and application support staff. Others related to clear contracting language that spells out ownership and responsibility for problem resolution in a cloud environment. And, security con...

Today’s technologies offer government agencies numerous ways to cut operating costs, improve service delivery, strengthen national security, and enhance mission performance. Government’s increased reliance on technology has expanded the attack potential. This video-based briefing will touch on the building blocks of a solid security infrastructure and how agencies are becoming more resilient and effective in stemming cyber threats.