Please join the Interagency Security Committee for a webinar to discuss the recent updates to the Risk Management Process: An Interagency Security Committee Standard, 2024 Edition (RMP Standard). As required by Executive Order 14111 to "enhance the quality and effectiveness of security in the protection of buildings and facilities," the ISC Standards Subcommittee reviewed, sought membership input, and updated the RMP Standard over a two-year t...

Many midsize enterprises (MSE) CIOs struggle to successfully communicate the business value of their IT programs to business leaders. The credibility of many CIOs suffers because executives view their communications as technology status reports lacking demonstrable business impact. By effectively demonstrating a clear connection between IT and business goals, CIOs can not only justify IT expenditures but also elevate IT's role as a strategic p...

The head of infrastructure and operations (I&O) must balance a wide range of responsibilities and stakeholders, and they face pressure from the CIO to deliver measurable value. They must contend with challenges such as operational breakdowns, technical debt, enabling innovation and new ideas, and ensuring alignment with objectives that are typically complex, urgent and critical to run the business. I&O leaders rely on a strong partners...

We are never returning to the pre-pandemic style of everyone working exclusively in the office. It’s not happening. However, we’re also not moving toward a fully remote work model. That leaves hybrid work as the de facto option. The problem is that most agencies haven’t optimized collaboration in this hybrid environment. Join us online Wednesday, Aug. 14 from 2-2:50 p.m. ET/11-11:50 a.m. PT to hear from government and industr...

You could be losing valuable productivity hours, driving up storage costs, and putting business critical services at risk with the wrong cloud monitoring strategy. Expanding to the cloud and microservices can introduce complexity into your environment, making it challenging to troubleshoot and resolve incidents across your expanded landscape effectively. Whether you’ve integrated Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP into your stack, sticking to a tra...

The lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and political uncertainty, increasing workplace changes, and new complexities are just some of the factors affecting workforce mental health and well-being. This poses a risk to mission readiness as well-being drives individual and organizational performance. In fact, recent Gallup Well-Being Research suggests that well-being is the most important factor for career performance over time...

Over the years, civil services around the world have pursued a wide range of efficiency agendas—but with mixed results. Digital technologies offer new opportunities to be more efficient in government, but they also have a number of pitfalls. That's why Government Technology and SAS are bringing together a panel of experts to explore the latest strategies and technologies that can help agencies unlock their full potential. These innovatio...

State and local governments are feeling the pressure to deliver superior online services for their constituents. To meet these digital service demands, agencies are launching numerous applications and portals. However, many of these organizations struggle to fill open IT positions, which slows down modernization efforts and overloads existing IT teams. IT Service Management (ITSM) can alleviate these workforce gaps. A cloud-based ITSM strategy...

Infrastructure as code with policy and reusability powers automation and helps teams enforce cost and security policies by standardizing infrastructure provisioning and management. In part three of our webinar series, Optimize Cloud Spend with HashiCorp Terraform, you’ll learn how to use policy as code to control cloud spending during the standardization phase of your cloud adoption journey. Our product experts will cover:What the standa...

The zero-trust approach to cybersecurity starts with an assumption that breaches will occur, whether from inside or outside the organization. Much like any other type of organization, federal agencies have multiple attack avenues — multiple endpoints per user, internet of things devices and hybrid infrastructures of data centers, edge computing, and numerous commercial clouds. How are agencies ensuring their zero-trust strategy goes beyo...