The recent shift towards DevOps makes it clear that Federal agencies are moving forward with adopting this operational model to facilitate the practice of automating development, delivery, and deployment of mission-critical software. While the traditional idea of a software release dissolves into a continuous cycle of service and delivery improvements, agencies find that their conventional approaches to software security are having a difficult...

Today, agencies are striving to improve their application security programs, while at the same time, not slowing down the development, delivery, and deployment of their software applications. Can a balance be achieved between security and an organization’s (or agency’s) daily business requirements? We know it’s possible. Application Security (AppSec) Awareness Programs that are specifically focused on the development communit...

The government in 2020 operates in a dramatically different fashion than it did even a decade ago. However, even with all these technological achievements, 80 percent of federal IT budgets go to operations and maintenance - that means that more than two-thirds of a government's budget goes to keep legacy systems functioning. The White House and Congress are urging agencies to change that equation and focus on modernization in three key areas:...

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...

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...

The Freedom of Information Act, enacted in 1966, was the first law that gave Americans the right to access the records of federal agencies. FOIA establishes a legal right of access to government records and information on the basis of the principles of openness and accountability in government. In 1974, after the Watergate scandal the act was amended to force greater agency compliance. In 1991 the General Accounting Office reported over 1.9 m...