It’s never been more obvious that cybersecurity is critical to the missions of every organization across the public sector. As the nation looks to recover from a once-in-a-century pandemic and increasing and more sophisticated cyberattacks, the U.S. government must ensure that it can secure its networks and data against evolving threats and provide resilient services to Americans during this new normal. Join top public sector decision-ma...

Registration is Now Closed Safeguarding Data and Mitigating Risk through Comprehensive Data Governance Frameworks Data has become ubiquitous. It surrounds us in every step of our daily lives and permeates what were once mundane, uninteresting tasks. Whether in the private or the public sectors – data has changed how we engage, how we work, and how we think. Leveraging that data, harnessing it and putting it to work for the benefit of all...

ICIT 2021 Fall Briefing The 2021 ICIT Fall Briefing Series will be hosted on-line as a series of three weekly virtual events focused on cyber convergence or integrating physical and cyber security strategies. CISA suggests that business leaders develop a “…holistic security strategy that aligns cybersecurity and physical security functions…”. By bringing together top public and private sector leaders, ICIT is advancin...

Welcome - the desk is open, and we are ready to sign you up for #DevDay GOV 2021.This year’s event will be virtual with plenty to interest any developer or application owner already – or considering – taking their mainframe and COBOL applications on a transformation journey. Working for Federal, State or the Local Government? There is plenty here to help you – and your agency – do what you do faster, more efficien...

One of the biggest barriers to effective digital transformation is the limited capability of traditional data warehouses. Extremely expensive and resource intensive, traditional data warehouses are unable to manage exponential data growth and new data sources or empower new types of use cases. Organizations are looking at cloud’s unique architecture, which provides elasticity, native support for diverse data, and compelling performance a...

During times of crisis, the Defense Department can be called upon to support U.S. civil authorities. In those cases, a lead federal agency works alongside state, local, territorial, or tribal organizations as responses to natural or human-made emergencies or disasters evolve. In such situations, the key features of GIS’s are critical enablers, allowing for integration of disparate datasets, the conduct of analysis, and dissemination of a...

Advances in technology, such as microservices and containers, continue to transform how agencies operate. Event-driven architecture (EDA), a software architecture and model for application design, is quickly becoming a preferred method for capturing insights and communicating changes instantly for improved customer experience. EDA can aid the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in achieving a flexible system that can adapt to change...

Over the last decade, the government technology (GovTech) market has experienced rapid growth and acceleration driven by a perfect storm of market dynamics, including democratized technology infrastructure, reduced friction in the procurement process, increased access to funding for scaling startups, and a growing set of entrepreneurs targeting government as their primary customer. The unprecedented events of 2020 further accelerated these mar...