ATARC’s AI and Data Policy Working Group intends to investigate the policy implications of AI personhood for the US Federal government. We believe the topic will become critically important as technology advances, public awareness grows, and the limitations of current policies become apparent. Our goal is to help federal policy makers develop and implement policies in this area that conserve American values while enabling the development...

Tune into this panel to hear as topic experts discuss the importance of Identity Management within federal agencies and how the hybrid workforce has affected it. What best practices do these topic experts recommend to help best protect data? How can government agencies implement an effective Identity Security model to minimize risk and keep pace with adversaries? What are best practices for Privileged Access Management controls? Listen as subj...

Cyberthreats and breaches can be detrimental to the safety of the American people. In a recent study by the Washington Post, IT and cybersecurity experts state that the Federal agencies are more vulnerable to threats and attacks than before. The last five years have seen an increase in the success of Federal agencies’ cybersecurity due to legislation and funding. However, the threats that we are now facing have advanced in the five years...

Tune into this event to hear from Federal topic experts on the reasons to migrate to the cloud, common migration experiences, and the benefits cloud migration can bring. What lessons have these topic experts learned while making the shift to the cloud? What challenges did they face? What best strategies did they have to put in place to overcome these challenges? And how have they kept the cloud secure for their agencies? Join this summit as to...

OMB’s memorandum M-22-09, “Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles,” is setting deadlines for implementation across the government. Specifically, the memo calls out the end of FY24 – an extremely short time frame in government circles – for multiple actions across the CISA-defined five pillars of a Zero Trust Architecture. One of the most important actions is for agencies to move to...

Shifting left and building software with security and compliance integrated from the start is critical to increasing trust in our digital infrastructure. As we have seen through recent executive orders and Department of Defense (DoD) memos, creating a foundation that enables a continuous ability to quickly certify and deliver software is critical to federal organizations being responsive enough to meet their missions. Enabling the Assessor to...

AI systems need to be ethical, responsible, transparent, and explainable. AI and ML systems are greatly dependent upon their training data to ensure results from the algorithms are fair and ethical. These concerns are particularly important for government decision making that may affect citizens and services. Listen in as topic experts explore how the use of artificial intelligence to increase fairness and equity has become important throughou...

The May 12, 2021 White House Executive Order 14028 and subsequent Office of Management and Budget Memo M-22-09 set forth a Federal Zero Trust Architecture strategy and a new baseline for access controls. In order to reinforce the government’s defenses against increasingly sophisticated and persistent threat campaigns, agencies are now required to meet specific cybersecurity standards and objectives by the end of fiscal year 2024. M-22-09...

GSA in coordination with the IPv6 Federal Task Force, and sponsored by the CIO Council, is hosting an IPv6 summit to address the Federal community’s desire to bring together Federal agencies and industry partners to discuss IPv6 priorities, share IPv6 success stories and lessons learned, and identify partnerships between industry and government to better assist agencies in the transition to an IPv6-only environment. This Virtual Summit i...

Embracing a decentralized modern enterprise IT ecosystem means accepting that mission critical workloads don’t just run inside of the data center. Modern customer and employee experience demands from the business are rapidly forcing IT leaders to adapt to a hybrid environment approach. Application and data are increasingly spread among multiple agencies, legacy data centers, hyperscaler clouds, software as a service (SaaS) providers, and...