For close to a decade the Obama administration has been putting together the components of a system to automate the identification and response to security breaches in government agencies. The move toward security and monitoring as-a-service is based on a consensus that fixed network defense technologies have not lived up to their promise to protect federal networks. Tools are now emerging to identify and block critical threats to agency syste...

Event Postponed For the Defense Department, the future is about convergence—bringing the military services and coalition partners together on the same networking and communications platform, analyzing and layering data from multiple sources and making it accessible via the cloud, and seamlessly integrating cyber and kinetic operations. Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s public/private innovation initiative also promotes collaboration a...

A number of high-profile data breaches in 2015 have made cybersecurity a top priority in the federal government. But the cyber threat has been growing steadily in recent years, even as agencies have stepped up their efforts to combat it through new and better technologies, policies, and management strategies. For example, according to the latest FISMA Compliance Report from the Office of Management and Budget, federal agencies reported more th...

Few agencies have the IT budget of the Homeland Security Department, which is expected to top $6.2 billion in fiscal 2016. One of its 14 component agencies has a budget of $1.5 billion and five others have IT budgets of over $500 million annually: Customs and Border Protection - $1.5 billion National Protection and Programs Directorate - $985.6 million Departmental Management and Operations - $817.6 million Transportation Security Administrati...

Join Washington Technology for this panel discussion and networking breakfast on Defense Opportunities for 2015 and beyond at the Sheraton Tysons Hotel, Tysons Corner. More than any other part of the federal government, the Defense Department is torn between the need to cut budgets and a seemingly never-ending list of national security priorities. Never has doing more with less been a reality as in today’s defense market. The panel will...