Business users needed a better way to find, understand, and trust enterprise data. CMHC's data team along with Accenture embarked on a journey to modernize data operations from legacy systems to data lakes and warehouses. Identification of PII and sensitive data was of utmost importance in the journey to mitigate associated risks. Gaining buy-in from stakeholders and fostering a culture of data ownership was essential for the initiative to suc...

Join BigID, ServiceNow, and Carahsoft for a webinar where we will explore privacy management and how BigID AI-powered advanced data discovery and classification accelerates an organization's ability to mitigate risk effectively.In today's government, data is a mission-critical asset in policymaking, constituent management, and decision support. With the massive increase in data volume, data types, and multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud environments, it...

Join Titus and Carahsoft for a webinar featuring Forrester on ways organizations are processing and storing more personal information than ever before, and with the rise of data protection regulations increasing globally, there is a lot at stake when it comes to data privacy. Hear from our guest speaker, Enza Iannopollo, Principal Analyst at Forrester as she looks at how data privacy is impacting data protection, and the steps your organizatio...

The federal government's move to cloud technology is now more than a decade old. Spurred by modernization efforts and accelerated by the pandemic's push to remote work, agencies invested in cloud technology at a record rate, which allowed them to provide higher value services faster and cheaper. As agencies move into the next stage, they are wrestling with decisions on scoping their cloud needs, hybrid or multi-cloud environments, as-a-service...

As more agencies adopt Atlassian services in the cloud, there are increased privacy and security risks, of which the public is acutely aware. For IT professionals, compliance with privacy and security standards is critical.The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), standardizes the approach to security assessment, authorization and monitoring for cloud products and services used by federal agencies to protect data in the...

The Department of Transportation (DOT)’s mission involves transporting people and goods safely and efficiently. Sustainability and equity are also mandates. Getting crucial data to the right people helps them achieve these objectives. Yet, according to the World Economic Forum, 70% of data management projects at DOT fail the first time. Why? The data lacks the proper context for its most effective use. Data governance best practices, how...

Listen to Mission First, VMware and Carahsoft's Public Sector podcast series focusing on the mission, not the products. Hear season two, episode one of our podcast series dedicated to covering the latest and greatest in IT achievements - keeping you ahead of the competition. Attendees heard from Mike Dent, Chief Information Cyber Security and Privacy Officer for Fairfax County Government and Craig Bowman, Senior Director - Federal at VMware, d...

With more data than ever flowing into the state, local and US federal government, data and analytics leaders must ensure their governance framework is agile and scalable. By evolving governance policies and structure over time, leaders can boost efficiency and enable self-service data to improve the digital enterprise. Attendees joined Matt Maccaux, Global Field Chief Technology Officer for HPE’s Ezmeral Software, and Phil McQuitty, Fiel...

Managing identity data for state agencies, localities, and educational institutions is complex. Users must share sensitive personal information and authenticate through multiple identity providers - all of which can access their data, creating an invasive, friction-filled user experience laden with compliance risks. Decentralized identity represents a massive paradigm shift that will protect the privacy of users’ data and let them contro...

Since its inception in 2011, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has played a vital role in the U.S. government's cloud security strategy, providing a standardized risk-based approach for assessing, authorizing, and continuously monitoring cloud products and services used by federal agencies. Recently, NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Revision 5 was published to represent the new generation of security and priv...