Emerging technologies offer the promise of better, faster, cheaper processing and problem solving, but they also bring the possibility of bias, security breaches and new privacy issues. Most agencies are experimenting on a small scale and testing out standards on privacy and security. Workforce also has been a concern as emerging tech matures—both to ensure displaced workers are reskilled and to make certain the job classifications are a...

Government agencies understand the pain of siloed data, especially as they continue to move data and programs to the cloud, modernize legacy systems, and automate manual processes to meet evolving citizen and employee demands. Connecting and accessing that data can be a challenge, but new technologies and modern integration platforms help accelerate transformation by connecting SaaS, enterprise applications, and other data sources, whether the...

Agencies often need to work with multiple public cloud providers and with on-premises data centers as well. For all the benefits that come with the variety of providers, it also presents challenges when workloads need to be moved from one provider to another and back. This webcast will look at the challenges that agencies face with safeguarding data that will be accessed by a growing VDI workforce and how they are managing the operational comp...

As horizons stretch for the remote work force and the prospect of returning to the office any time soon looks less likely, agencies are looking for way to make data accessible, anywhere, anytime in a cost effective way. A multi-cloud approach can offer such a solution—a way to virtualize workloads and move data from servers to virtual desktops and from on-premises centers to the public cloud and back. Learn from a key executive how one a...

Whether it's delivering better care for veterans, improving the citizen experience on federal websites or reimagining business processes within an agency, digital transformation is essential to making government run better. Both the President's Management Agenda and the 21st Century IDEA Act have underscored the importance of these efforts, but the real proof is in the specific projects underway across the federal community. The 2020 Federal 1...

For most agencies, the fall will mean a mixed bag of open offices and remote workforce. Agencies spun up solutions quickly for expanding and protecting networks and data, and now they are planning for supporting both approaches.What has worked for agencies with managed services and what is available to help as employees return to offices? Can collaboration tools substitute for face-to-face discussion? Are there scalable solutions that allow ag...

Transforming the IT infrastructure for an agency is a complicated task that requires coordinated and effective decision making, buy-in from key executives and detailed data and security strategies -- not to mention funding for new technology or the move to managed services. This FCW Summit will discuss new policies and guidance that will govern these changes. In addition, agencies that are well into their modernization journey will share lesso...

As DoD, federal agencies and law enforcement work to fill a shortage in key specialties, there is a premium on using the expertise at the highest level. Security analysts often spend too much time collecting and collating data across different public and private sources. Their time would be much better spent analyzing the real threats so they can respond rapidly and effectively. With Forcepoint Data Analyzer, agencies can employ virtual data w...

Global supply chains are being pushed to the limit in the face of unprecedented disruption, as foreign adversaries, hackers, and criminals seek to steal, compromise and destroy sensitive information. Cyber criminals are targeting government and industry via contractors and suppliers at all tiers of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) supply chain. The National Defense Authorization Act also prompts a call-to-action to protect t...

Much as technology is now woven into virtually every aspect of government, cybersecurity must now be an essential element of every federal IT system and initiative. From continuous monitoring of agency systems to securing the supply chain to ensuring military superiority in the electronic domain, cyber has become both critical and ubiquitous. The list of 2020 Federal 100 winners illustrates both the vast range and vital importance of today's c...