The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released voluntary cross-sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs) to help establish a common set of fundamental cybersecurity practices for critical infrastructure. SANS Institute recently published “Five Critical Controls for ICS/OT Cybersecurity” using real-world scenarios to design and improve cybersecurity defense and response. Join presenters from CIS...

Are you interested in context for your cloud or container environment when you investigate an event from last week, last month, or last year? Would it save you time to have IDS alerts that include the full context of the connection? Join this session to hear James Schweitzer demonstrate some easy to understand, interlinked network evidence, available wherever you need it and which also enables orchestration.

When it comes to paying for government services, governments and residents want the same thing: payments made easy. Despite this common goal, providing a seamless experience to access and pay for a wide range of government services can still be challenging. Governments have to serve a spectrum of people with different payment preferences while navigating security and compliance requirements, staffing constraints and budget restrictions. Moder...

With government and education organizations tasked with transforming their IT infrastructure quickly and securely, many are leveraging multiple cloud computing platforms. For most agencies, this means they must replace legacy systems with systems suitable for managing multiple cloud application workloads. A cloud management solution can help agencies to overcome multi-cloud complexity. IT teams can get a holistic overview of every system on a...

Today, most organizations would consider themselves “hybrid”, possessing vast on-premises and cloud footprints. Statistics clearly show that cloud adoption continues to grow, and while businesses love the growth and agility provided by cloud providers, there continue to be challenges in the need to secure these various footprints. IT security teams struggle to keep up with complex product stacks, an ever-growing skills shortage gap...

Hybrid and remote employees in state and local government workforces are increasing IT’s focus on endpoint security to reduce risk. Short-staffed agencies are looking to maximize efficiencies across the board. Personal computers, laptops and other end-user devices are a crucial component to increase employee productivity and enable resiliency. Join Government Technology on December 14 at 10am PT/1pm ET as we discuss why choosing the rig...

Executive Director Brandon Wales of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Rob Lee, Chief Curriculum Director and SANS Faculty Fellow, will enter the “Ring of Fire” with our attendees both online and in-person for an attendee-engaging fireside chat! The fireside chat will poll the audience to gather attendee insight in-person and online. We will collect attendee questions and help upvote topics they would l...

Securing IT assets has never been more of a challenge. The IT landscape is under a daily bombardment of cyber-attacks. Disruption and financial loss caused by ransomware, data theft, and security breaches is unsustainable. The current administration has acted to shrink the cyber-attack surface of federal agencies. An executive order issued by the White House last year, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity” (EO 14028), charge...

Leveraging multicloud computing has many well-known benefits for state and local governments – it can increase efficiency, improve cybersecurity and reduce costs. But migrating to a multicloud environment can be complex. How can agencies make the journey to the cloud seamless and straightforward? Cloud migration solutions can address the challenges of moving to a multicloud environment. These tools can help organizations quickly migrate...

State and local governments can address many of their greatest challenges with better understanding and use of their data. From measuring the effectiveness of a program and improving it to scaling program delivery and integrating partners, data can allow governments to accelerate change through superior coordination of services and activities. But access to quality data requires some level of digital transformation. Outdated solutions and spr...