Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21) advances a national policy to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning and resilient critical infrastructure that is vital to the public and to the Nation’s safety, prosperity and well-being. The Nation’s critical infrastructure is diverse and complex, but policies and procedures are needed to reduce vulnerabilities, minimize consequences, identify, and disrupt threats, and hasten respo...

Building the Cyber Environs: Tools, Technology and Workforce The shift to digital, cloud, AI and other technologies has given rise to a variety of cyberattacks with an alarming cost. Government and industry continue to face critical security and risk issues with increased cyber threats, supply chain and cloud vulnerabilities, ransomware, phising, stolen credentials and identities, new sophisticated attack approaches and other cyber-types of at...

Data comes from many sources, data definitions, variations in data, different systems, and from many users. It is important to gather and identify data from a multitude of sources to explore data patterns and data trends to be used for forecasting, planning, future strategies, innovation, research, and others that are not affected by fluctuations, repeated sequencing over fixed periods of time, unexplained random variances, and much more. Ever...

Homeland Security and Law Enforcement present is a very complicated service with numerous challenges and risks presented to all levels of government. It is not only the terrorist attacks but also the natural disasters and other crises that impact day-to-day operations, our lives, and our wellbeing. Government and industry need to respond with an integrated and collaborative strategy to combat the impact and will require updated, sophisticated...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is one of the leading federal agencies in implementing in Cloud, UI/UX, SecDevOps and Cybersecurity capabilities. In 2021, President Biden signed Executive Orders (EO), some of them have a major impact on most components of DHS. First Executive Order is “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity”. It is a detailed overview of the Federal government’s plan to better secure America ...

A Fireside Chat with David Shive , Chief Information Officer, General Services Administration

In October 2020, DOJ announced a policy that permits state and local officers on DOJ Task Forces to wear and activate BWCs when the use of force is possible - while serving arrest warrants, executing other planned arrest operations, and during the execution of search warrants. On June 7 2021, based on recommendations from the Department's law enforcement components, the Attorney General directed the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, To...

The role of Chief Information Security Officer is important making security is front and center in protecting organizations in a post SolarWinds and Log4j world. As the need to share information between different agencies with both connected and disconnected applications increases, agencies need to think beyond DevSecOps and Zero Trust. Existing approaches to building software and the use of automation need to be reevaluated. The Department of...

As the United States’ first unified border entity, Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) takes a comprehensive approach to border management and control, combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.This informative event will feature Mark Borkowski, Office of Acquisition and CBP’s Component Acquisition Executive...

The Intersection between the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity & Acquisition The Federal Insights Exchange is thrilled to host a dynamic panel discussion on successfully aligning the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity with the Department of State’s contracts. While much of the EO aims to create consistent standards and regulations, the EO also includes requirements and reporting respon...