What can the workplace experience look like in our new normal? As federal employees return to work in larger numbers this summer, many components within the Department of Defense are reviewing ways to structure safe workplace environments that are more efficient and allow for greater hybrid work options. Sustaining these new hybrid work models that allow employees to return to the workplace in a safe and repeatable process will be a key challe...

In the last two years, public sector ransomware attacks have exploded in both frequency and sophistication. These attacks pose an urgent national security risk to all levels of government and to critical institutions like schools and hospitals. The Institute for Security + Technology’s Ransomware Task Force issued a report earlier this year that identified almost 2,400 ransomware attacks against public sector agencies and organizations....

Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) Demo Join us every Tuesday at 2:00pm ET for a 30 minute demo on how you can use AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) when evaluating options for migrating to the cloud or reducing licensing costs to save on third party licensing costs and run your resources more efficiently. Benefits include: Rightsize your resources to determine your actual utilization requirements to help optimal...

System Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIGs) are system configuration guidelines provided by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) that are commonly used in the federal and DoD space to meet system compliance requirements when it comes to system configuration. This effort can be extraordinarily complex and time-consuming for the people that are responsible for executing this work. Not only must each system component be configured...

As state and local governments turn their attention toward the future, they confront an increasingly complex environment. The challenges and uncertainties facing government organizations are difficult to navigate, and agencies’ legacy processes and workflows are unable to meet the demands of today’s public sector organizations. To improve governance, agencies need to adopt a modern process management approach that optimizes planni...

In this program, you will build on your existing extensive skill set and master new communication and influence capabilities. You must flex your own communication and work style to work in partnership with your boss. Your planning skill must move from the tactical to the strategic, to get your own work done, and to support your boss, and help keep her or him on track. Areas Covered in the Session: Planning and thinking strategically and critic...

The Federal Directive for M-19-21 mandates a complete transition to electronic recordkeeping by the end of 2022. For federal agencies, this means ensuring that all permanent records are in an electronic format and the appropriate metadata is attached. As the deadline approaches, it's time for agencies to rethink how they manage records. Are you prepared? This webinar will discuss the challenges of compliance, how agencies are dealing with thes...

High speed networks are the critical foundation that supports many of an agency's most vital communications and operations. However, this foundation is at risk of surveillance and attack by increasingly sophisticated cyber criminals and well-funded nation states. These network connections, if unprotected, are proving to be highly vulnerable, leaving sensitive assets exposed. Threats such as shared infrastructure exposure, man-in-the-middle att...

In this session on Business Driven Calculations, you will learn how to perform some common calculations we often see from our customers to help answer questions and highlight data when we are meeting our targets, visualising running totals over time, percent of totals and YoY calculations. We will also help you understand the different types of calculations in Tableau; basic, level of detail and table calculations, as well as learning about a...

On June 24, 2021 we had a successful kick-off to our in-person Meetups, with about 30 members meeting at Old Ox Brewery in Ashburn to discuss internships and other cybersecurity workforce solutions. Let's keep the momentum going!At our July 28th Meetup, we'll learn how a local Loudoun company is addressing a global problem: phishing. If you're in cybersecurity, you know the danger of phishing as an attack vector for credential-theft or malware...