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...

Cloud is now the dominant IT environment, with everyone in the civilian and government sectors leveraging it to some degree. In our current pandemic, the importance of cloud and cybersecurity cannot be overstated. Now more than ever, we are dependent on a secure cloud environment to do our jobs while complying with “Stay at Home” orders. Reliance on cloud technology brings concerns about system breaches, privacy, and compliance wit...

Join AFCEA Washington, DC for a luncheon on Thursday, March 12, 2020.

Don't miss out on the Arlington, VA Career Event scheduled for 03/10/2020. Dice and ClearanceJobs host over 90 Career Fairs each year. There will be great employers there looking to fill their open positions! A Security Clearance is REQUIRED to attend this event.

Join AFCEA Washington, DC for a luncheon on Thursday, February 13, 2020.

Join AFCEA Washington, DC for a luncheon on Thursday, January 16, 2020.

TSA is focused on protecting the U.S. transportation sector against cyber attacks "Partnering with the private sector partners to secure surface transportation from cyber attacks is a critically important and complex undertaking," said TSA Surface Division Director Sonya Proctor. In conjunction with TSA, DEA and the U.S. Marshals Service know that cyber protection and Data Analytics is a crucial part of their agency mission.  To support these...

Join AFCEA Washington, DC for a luncheon on Wednesday, November 13, 2019.

The past year has shown that some of the greatest threats that government may face will not come from other countries, but entities unburdened by borders or rule of law. CyberCon 2019 will bring together military, government and civilian agency leadership to look beyond the threat of these adversaries to the changes they must make to win the wars of the future. How can government agencies win the fight today and best prepare to be secure tomo...

Moving applications and data to the cloud has many benefits, including lower costs, accelerated computing speed, and the rapid provisioning of systems. The federal government is working to leverage the “anywhere, anytime” benefits of the cloud and has made cloud-adoption a central tenet of its IT modernization strategy. But choosing cloud services without becoming fully informed of the risks can also expose you to myriad commercial...