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...

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...

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...

As more and more agencies move commodity IT and now mission critical apps to the cloud, integration and modernization of software is becoming more important. This panel will focus on how agencies are taking this challenge on and the role open source and platform-as-a-service could play in this effort. The panel also will look at the challenges of integrated legacy systems in the cloud and with new apps. Using examples from the public sector, t...

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) has become essential as attacks on federal networks have become increasingly sophisticated, aggressive, and persistent. The next phase of the CDM program (Phase II) will address a people problem – preventing employees from accessing government data they don’t need -- and infrastructure integrity. The final phase (Phase III) will concentrate on handling actual breaches, as well as encrypti...

As agencies move both their business and mission critical applications to the cloud, integration and modernization of software have become increasingly important. Government agencies are now using middleware to tie together data, devices and applications. As a result, new applications are deployed at lower risk, greater speed, and with better performance. This webinar will focus on the middleware tools agencies are using to integrate disparate...

What Will You Learn- Strategies and techniques other organizations are using that actively engage their employees and staff- Habits of highly effective security awareness programs- Top human risks- What communication methods are the most effective- What other organizations are doing to effectively measure change in behavior- How organizations are making the most use of their limited resourcesWho Should Attend?This summit is for people that alr...

Cybersecurity is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation, but one that we as a government and as a country are not adequately prepared to counter. Spurred by the Administration, government is charging ahead to establish a front line of defense against today's immediate threats by creating or enhancing shared situation awareness of network vulnerabilities, threats, and events within the Federal gove...

The Department of Homeland Security plays a leading role in mandating the Federal Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program to provide agencies visibility into their networks and identify cyber threats. Many agencies have implemented a number of security tools, and they are moving toward new methods to aggregate and analyze the collected data for a holistic picture of their security posture. Join us for a discussion between public an...