Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and Web application attacks, along with attacks targeting DNS (Domain Name Server) infrastructure, represent some of the most critical threats to organizations today. These attacks target a wide range of organizations and can cause downtime, loss of confidential information and revenue, drive up bandwidth costs, and severely impact an organization’s reputation. In December 2012, DNS Amplification atta...

New Features to Increase Your Analytical Productivity Your tried and true Analyst's Notebook and its family have undergone major improvements since IBM took over. Spend two hours with us over lunch on Monday, February 25th, and get the latest information on Analyst's Notebook. IBM recently launched a new product to go with ANB called ChartRipper - a little app that lets you ingest old chart data in seconds, send the data to a database, and the...

Microsoft Lync is becoming increasingly common in enabling federal agency unified communications and collaboration within the single agency enterprise and multi-agency federating. It provides a consistent, single client experience for presence, instant messaging, voice, video and an easy to use virtual meeting experience.This rich, unified communication brings cyber security challenges, including real-time content monitoring and alerting, agen...

F5 BIG-IP v11.3 Update TMOS v11.3 is an important release from F5 and represents some significant additions in capability for the entire BIG-IP product suite. Join us to learn about the new features of TMOS 11.3 and how to best implement these new capabilities in your environment. See a live demonstration of F5 APM's newSecurity Assertion Markup Language (SAML) capabilities along with the unveiling of the new firewall user interface. Join F5 N...

F5 Army TechTalkSecure Your Applications, Simplify Authentication, and Consolidate InfrastructureWhether you have legacy or enterprise applications, authentication, application security, and remote access are a challenge to supporting an agency's enterprise and its customers. F5 improves application performance and simplifies enterprise architecture, while reducing the total cost of ownership of your solution. This is your last chance to join...

F5 Gov TechTalk:How to Implement, Secure, and Manage Mobility Most defense, security, and financial organizations are in the process of doing their due diligence around mobility. Due to the obvious data sensitivity issues in these environments, no one solution fits all. Join F5 Networks and Carahsoft for an in depth discussion around the approach to implementing mobility, and the things you need to consider along the way. We will discuss: The...

Join Carahsoft and the GIS Team for geospatial concentrated complimentary seminars on Thursday, February 14th to dive into how public sector organizations are increasingly leaning towards GIS (Geographic Information System) technologies to enhance operations, solve complex problems, and leverage existing resources. Attend one or all of these interactive online sessions or click on the titles to learn more details on each: 10:00-11:00AM: Captur...

Load Balancing and Keys for Successful Application Delivery ArchitecturesBoost Application Availability, Performance, and Security Simple load balancing is dead. In an increasingly online and web-centric IT environment, application delivery networking is the core of application availability, security, and performance. Application delivery networking encompasses application load balancing, security, performance optimization, access/authorizatio...

The time has come for the third annual SAP Public Sector Partner Exchange. This years event will be held on Tuesday, February 12th, 2013. Join us for this unique opportunity for strategic channel partners to learn tips and best practices that will help increase the velocity of your Public Sector sales. This event will include an afternoon of highly relevant sales content, technical information, marketing techniques, and networking all delivere...

Please join us on Thursday, January 31st for a live event and learn how migrating from proprietary technologies to JBoss Enterprise Middleware and open source offers many advantages to agencies, including cost reduction, scalability, freedom from vendor lock-in, and so much more. We will start by exploring how the next generation of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0 (EAP 6) can get you ready for data center consolidation, cloud, and sp...