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...

On Jan 22, ATARC and UMD will present an informational breakfast about their new certificate program. When: 7:30 to 10:30 AM on Jan 22, 2020 Where: Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004 The new cybersecurity certificate program will provide IT leaders in industry and government with a solid grounding in core business tools and principles.

Cybersecurity plays a crucial role in the Federal Government, as agencies are tasked with securing information that is critical to the security of our nation. Join us in Fort Worth, TX for an informational event regarding federal IT acquisition. Panels at this conference will examine the government programs and contract vehicles that focus on cybersecurity and discuss how agencies successfully using these programs to secure their critical infr...

To become mission-ready, DoD must adopt a DevSecOps culture by leveraging agile methodologies and practices to deliver applications faster and at a higher quality. Transformation to a DevSecOps culture doesn’t happen overnight. To make it a permanent part of your agency’s DNA, you need the right tools to enforce and automate modern application delivery methods and processes, and to ensure repeatability and predictability.

Federal agencies are under pressure to optimize data center efficiency and effectiveness. As agencies serve mobile users, manage expanding flows of data, and employ platforms, services and infrastructures as a service, these data centers must be dynamic, elastic and reliable. These imperatives are sparking fresh thinking about how federal agencies should approach network management. A key challenge is that hardware-centric networks cannot supp...

Federal networks are straining under demands posed by increased use of mobile devices, teleworking and alternative schedules, bandwidth-hungry applications, video traffic, cyber risks, and exploding data volumes. Many agencies have invested in modernizing the desktop, compute and storage domains of their IT infrastructures. But they nevertheless find themselves saddled with outdated legacy networking environments comprised of single-function a...

This educational, one-day symposium will examine the tools and technology Federal agencies are using to optimize and transform their networks, allowing end-users to become more productive, agile and efficient. (View Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Network Collaboration Symposium features discussion and white-boarding between government and industry subject matter experts in a small-group setting. The outcomes of these sessions will be compiled in a Whi...

Traditional networks and data centers were never designed to handle today’s growth in bandwidth-intensive applications and are now being stretched beyond their limits. Enter Software Defined Networking (SDN), which is designed to address issues such as speed, scalability, and resistance. Please join us on the morning of March 17, 2016 from 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. for an ATARC Federal Executive Briefing on Software Defined Networking...