DESCRIPTION: The Shared Services concept of sharing a service or critical expertise across multiple business or mission functions within a particular agency or across multiple agencies has been around for many years with the intent of building high-quality capacity through economies of scale. The goal for Shared Services is to improve quality, consistency, and timeliness, reduce duplicative investments, and provide cost effectiveness of servic...

The long awaited executive guidance on artificial intelligence has been released by the current administration and Federal agencies have wasted little time getting to work. With the frameworks outlined in the executive order, agencies have started implementing the guidance into their operational networks, recognizing the imperative of swiftly integrating AI-focused strategies to enhance the resilience and effectiveness of their cybersecurity m...

DESCRIPTION: Government and industry leaders are embracing an accelerated pace of Change. Digital Transformation is an approach they use to identify potential disruptions, create or modify status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience, to meet the evolving challenges and promote used in government and industry to create or modify the status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience to meet he evolving...

Cybersecurity has always contended with evolving threats. As the internet has become more embedded into social and economic life and smart phones, tablets and other handheld devices become ubiquitous, bad actors have devised new attacks to capitalize on new vulnerabilities. And just as agencies are implementing zero trust architecture to help with this wave, other IT developments are threatening to upend cybersecurity even more. For instance,...

Looking to sharpen your cleared recruiting skills? ClearanceJobs Connect is a full day of in-person strategic and innovative sessions by leaders in the national security community and defense industry. Expand your cleared recruiting skills, create meaningful connections, learn from experts, and have fun! If you recruit cleared talent, then this is the conference for you! ClearanceJobs Connect is the ONLY event focused on security cleared recru...

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...

The spread of 5G – fifth-generation mobile communications – across all levels of government is being accelerated by its usefulness in high-speed data transmissions and flexibility in customizing network applications. And the range of applications by government agencies made possible by 5G may only be limited by one’s imagination. Some of the innovations supported by this wireless standard were born out of necessity – at...

CYBER 911- TIME TO ENGAGE, EXPOSE and ANNIHILATE the ADVERSARY Generally when I watch the news the first question that comes to my mind when I see anything about a cyber breach is ‘WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?' Having spent more than 30 years in the cybersecurity environment, one thing I know to be certain: The cybersecurity department of most companies employees the smartest, most strategic minds in the organization. We are meant to be s...

Cognilytica is running our Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) training and certification based on the best practices CPMAI methodology, with a 3 day training in the DC region October 28-30, 2019 that will teach you how to apply the CPMAI Methodology for your projects. This live, instructor-led training is conducted over 3 consecutive days. A detailed agenda can be found here: https://www.cognilytica.com/training/cpmai-train...

Join us for SANS Northern VA Spring- Reston 2019 (May 19-24), and learn vital cyber security skills to protect your organization from the latest cyber-attacks. SANS helps you stay ahead of the curve by providing unique, hands-on immersion training you can implement the day you return to work. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the best, and gain knowledge you can put to work immediately. Choose from 11 top-notch courses. Cyber Security...