Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are placing increased emphasis on implementing an effective "information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) program" for all government and contractor run IT systems. This will be accomplished by DHS and OMB increasing the annual FISMA reporting requirements and NIST issuing NIST Special Publications (SP): I...

2011 was commonly known as the year of the breach, and thus far, 2012 is continuing the trend. The FBI’s former head of cyber investigations, Shawn Henry, recently painted a bleak picture of the threat landscape: “The current public and private approach to fending off hackers is unsustainable. Computer criminals are simply too talented and defensive measures too weak to stop them.” In an August 2012 Technology Adoption Profil...

Implementing a comprehensive Big Data backup, recovery, archiving and access strategy is becoming more critical as government agencies deal with the management of diverse and growing data sets. As federal IT data environments continue to scale in both size and complexity there is a need for storage and application owners to have more control over backup and recovery processes. Register for this webinar and learn how you can empower your agency...

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone, and much of it is unstructured. It's not just the amount of data that presents challenges; the types of data being collected are changing and coming from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records o...

Cloud-based services are now included in federal technology plans, and cloud-adoption within the government is moving forward. Also moving forward is The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative which calls for reducing the number of data centers by 39% by 2015. Government agencies are required to make available a current list of planned and completed data center closures and consolidations each quarter, in accordance with an updated sched...

Federal agencies must meet a quickly approaching deadline to deploy IPv6 on their public-facing websites. But, 99% of all federal websites aren't supporting the next-gen Internet Protocol on their DNS, email and Web services, according to a survey conducted by NIST. This free one-hour webinar will give you the tools, as well as outline 5 steps, to help your agency move quickly toward compliance as the clock ticks precariously down. Participate...

According to several recent surveys, the top two priorities for CIOs are cloud computing and shared services. Private sector organizations including Ford, GE, Pfizer and Rolls Royce have been successfully implementing shared services since 1980. However, failed implementations in the US public sector have been widely publicized leading to misconceptions about the role of shared services. In this session you will learn what shared services are...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are placing increased emphasis on implementing an effective "information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) program" for all government and contractor run IT systems. This will be accomplished by DHS and OMB increasing the annual FISMA reporting requirements and NIST issuing NIST Special Publications (SP). T...

Join us for a webinar where former DIA CTO Bob Gourley, current publisher of CTOvision.com, will provide a detailed analysis of the issues involved with deploying systems in today's federal enterprise and offer potential design and field solutions to keep the agency operating at full capacity. Many new and exciting leading-edge technologies are providing government agencies data optimization solutions for faster, more efficient data access. Th...

Are you struggling to meet the federal government’s Oct. 1 deadline to comply with IPv6 implementation guidelines? Digital Government Institute’s 6th Annual Government IPv6 Conference on June 6 will help you get a handle on what to do as the deadline approaches, explore how others are making the transition, and learn what to do to expand your website into the world of the next generation of communication. The event coincides with W...