The rapid delivery of applications in today's MultiCloud environments presents complex challenges for government agencies. The transformation to dynamic environments is driving a re-framing of operations and application delivery, resulting in the adoption of a new Enterprise IT operating model. This shift is accelerating the ability of agencies to design, test and deploy secure software across dynamic environments – accentuating the risi...

Government agencies will be operating in a hybrid workplace for the foreseeable future. Establishing secure connections between user endpoints and cloud resources through a zero trust approach is critical to ensuring the hybrid work environment remains sustainable. In this exclusive webinar, technology executives from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Look...

Zero Trust is a philosophy change, not a product change. It's about taking what organizations already have and adapting the tools to be used more effectively. But creating a Zero Trust architecture isn't always so simple, and it's more of a journey than an end-goal. The challenges many agencies are facing today include; where to start, how to prioritize, and most importantly how to map out a plan and framework that is achievable for their use...

Over the course of the last two years a few things have become clear about zero trust: It’s not a product. It’s not a capability. It’s a way of thinking and securing data, systems and people. In this exclusive webinar, technology executives from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Health and Human Services, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Forcepoint and Forward Networks will elaborate on their zero trus...

As part of its risk mitigation strategy, the Cybersecurity Executive Order issued by the White House in May moves Zero Trust architecture to the center of cyber hygiene policy for the federal government. Zero Trust can be summarized easily: Trust nothing, suspect everything, authenticate 100%. The Executive Order includes directives to CISA and GSA to develop a cloud security strategy and provide guidance to agencies for implementation.Address...

Join cyber threat experts on November 10th, from Insight and Zscaler in a discussion on how State and Local government can modernize their security stack to cope with the growing ransomware threat and how a Zero Trust architecture can protect your data from this 21st-century form of extortion. During this live session, attendees will be given insights into the latest ransomware trends, vulnerabilities and attack sequences, as well as preventio...

The time of Cloud First in the federal government has come and gone. And now after several years of taking a Cloud Smart approach, it appears the federal government is embarking on the journey to Agile First, supported by hybrid cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps thinking and Zero Trust security. Join the top decision-makers from government and tech at the 2021 Cloud Together Summit as they explore the evolution of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud mo...

As part of its risk mitigation strategy, the Cybersecurity Executive Order issued by the White House in May moves Zero Trust architecture to the center of cyber hygiene policy for the federal government. Zero Trust can be summarized easily: Trust nothing, suspect everything, authenticate 100%. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency views this as setting an example for state and local governments looking to strengthen their securi...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate news headlines, your health, wellbeing, and safety - along with that of our clients, partners, employees, and people in the communities where we live and operate - are always top of mind. To that end, we’re canceling our upcoming in-person OptivCon event in New England on November 3, 2021. This was a hard, but necessary decision to ensure we’re doing our part to limit the spread of COV...

The animating concept at the heart of the Cybersecurity Executive Order issued in May is Zero Trust – to structure cybersecurity around the premise that every person, every device, whether inside or outside its’ systems, is not to be trusted and must be verified before being granted access. Setting this as core to modernization is reflected in the awards just made by the Technology Modernization Fund. Three of the six public awards...