While government agencies continue their migration to the cloud, concerns about security continue. A recent survey by Fidelis Cybersecurity found that 95% of cybersecurity professionals are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. Their top three concerns: misconfiguration of the cloud platform (71%), exfiltration of sensitive data (59%), and insecure APIs (54%). These are the fears that haunt government IT professionals,...

Embracing a decentralized modern enterprise IT ecosystem means accepting that mission critical workloads don’t just run inside of the data center. Modern customer and employee experience demands from the business are rapidly forcing IT leaders to adapt to a hybrid environment approach. Application and data are increasingly spread among multiple agencies, legacy data centers, hyperscaler clouds, software as a service (SaaS) providers, and...

Just as technology has been constantly changing and evolving, so has DOD’s strategy for the best way to modernize the tools it provides to the warfighters and their business support services. In 2018, the agency released a strategy to use cloud technology, which has been revised over the intervening years to reflect the cancellation of the JEDI contract and the adoption of DOD’s Software Modernization Strategy. The new strategy set...

The past two years have brought about a decade’s worth of change to federal technology, from rapidly pivoting to and sustaining a remote, virtual-enabled workforce, to revitalizing customer experience at the heart of government’s biggest missions – all while defending against increasingly sophisticated attacks and making big bets on next generation technologies like cloud, AI and automation. And these transformations are only...

With more cloud-based services and solutions built to support agencies with their missions, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) assures that these offerings match the government’s rigorous security and compliance requirements. In the 4th annual GovForward™ event, FedRAMP leaders, government executives, and industry experts will convene to discuss Capitol marketplace priorities, FedRAMP’s outlook fo...

It has been more than a decade since the Obama administration adopted a “cloud first” strategy for IT modernization. The policy shifted in 2019 to a “cloud smart” approach. Agencies across the federal government have been including cloud migration in their digital transformation initiatives over this period. But 10 years is a long time for any digital technology, and as cloud computing has matured its long-term drawback...

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program – FedRAMP – has been in place for more than a decade now. It has always been a great vehicle for moving government IT workloads to the cloud and into secure government-approved environments. Increasingly, FedRAMP is enabling faster adoption of cloud services and reducing organizational risks and costs associated with the sustainment of traditional government-owned equipment and...

In recent years, public sector organizations have reinvented themselves as digital enterprises built on modern applications and multiple clouds. As a result, constituents and end users have benefited from faster, more reliable services and tools. But as an organization’s technology shifts, so should its processes and workforce – for both IT and line of business. A true multi-cloud strategy requires a comprehensive, all-hands-on-de...

Over the past two years, the Federal workforce has made the shift to a hybrid work environment, as a result the security and identity management within the Federal Cloud space has had to strengthen. Tune into this session to hear from Federal Leaders on the unique challenges of managing these identities across hybrid cloud environments. What are the fundamental capabilities needed for management of millions of identities within this hybrid clo...

As Federal agencies work to realize their cloud smart strategies, shifting to modernizing in a way that leverages both cloud and hybrid environments to transform the way they manage their data have become more prevalent. This type of modernization allows these Federal agencies to support the increasing and evolving operational needs of their missions in a flexible manner. Join this panel to hear a discussion on the best practices used to make...