The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some major advances in improving the future of government information system security. How do you leverage all of these advances to successfully meet your 2012 FISMA requirements? This 2-day course explains the specifics of these advances and provides strategies for leveraging them into meeting your individual and enterprise FISMA resp...

Data security threats continue to increase in number and sophistication. The growing use of collaborative technologies – from mobile devices and social media to virtualization and cloud computing – will continue to be one of the most significant factors impacting the security landscape. For these reasons, the federal government has increased efforts to minimize and prevent cyber security attacks – including updating FISMA rul...

Bricks and Mortar data center consolidation efforts have failed to meet the desired savings. So, government organizations mandated by FDCCI need a strategy for realizing true and dramatic cost savings. First, organizations need to understand that data center consolidation is not an IT problem. It is a business strategy that engages and aligns with IT that can have positive impacts across the organization and can provide an extraordinary return...

Architecting Solutions for Smarter and Leaner Government How are changing technological capabilities and economic pressures forcing change within the public sector? A new movement for Smart Lean Government is gaining traction. The goal of the movement is to provide increased public access to government by aligning technology to shared processes, services and data and reducing duplication. The Enterprise Architecture (EA) discipline can be the...

This intensive, free one-day program, produced by Digital Government Institute and hosted by Cisco, will include detailed discussions about compelling topics facing today’s technology and program management professionals in governmental and educational organizations. The four conference tracks will review tools and techniques for effective: Mobile / Collaboration Secure Experience Unified Data Center and the Cloud Cutting the Cost of Gov...

With the overwhelming growth of digital information, from documents to e-mails to instant messaging and even Twitter – the scope of electronic records management has expanded exponentially and is an increasingly critical issue for government agencies, particularly as it relates to being able to provide secure storage, access, and retrieval of this information. And agencies are constantly challenged with managing new forms of Electronical...

Over the past year, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some major advances in improving the future security of government information system security. How do you leverage all of these advances to successfully meet your 2012 FISMA requirements? This 2-day course explains the specifics of these advances and provides strategies for leveraging them into meeting your individual...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has identified IPv6 as a critical technology necessary to achieve many of the Administration’s aggressive IT modernization goals such as Cloud Computing, National Broadband Deployment, and SmartGrid. In addition, the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issue that must be met to ensure continued use and expansion of the Internet for commercial and government services. On...

Recent White House and National Archives and Records Administration memorandums have directed Agencies to reform records management practices by creating a framework that will provide a foundation for leveraging information to improve agency performance and reduce unnecessary costs and burdens. Through these mandates, agencies must update current plans for improving records management programs, paying particular attention to electronic records...

You are invited to join us for a 60-minutes discussion about how to improve citizen services while reducing costs with innovative technologies. We’ll explore best practices government organizations are using today, clearly defined metrics and key performance indicators agencies can quickly deploy solutions that can have a significant positive impact on the citizen engagement process. We will look at some of the low cost effective and inn...