With the multiplication of advanced persistent threats, supply chain attacks, and ransomware putting our national security at risk, comprehensive network visibility is a cyber security requirement for U.S. federal agencies.Recognizing this reality, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a directive in August 2021 (OMB M-21-31) instructing executive branch departments and agencies to modernize their event logging. These requirements e...

Like commercial industry, federal agencies see data as the lifeblood of their operations. Inconsistent access to that critical asset can dull agency missions. A unified, cohesive data fabric that can weave in all types of data from all locations, operations and applications is growing more critical.Having an edge-to-core-to-cloud approach to data management increases access and sharing. In turn, those access and sharing capabilities allow grea...

The Electronic Records Management requires that all agencies must be compliant by December 2022. In this webcast learn how a cloud-based, platform approach is essential to doing it right.

More and more federal agencies continue to store their data in legacy systems, on-premises warehouses or platforms, and must consider a move to the cloud. IT leaders must identify what assets to migrate and then efficiently onboard the data, files, and databases to cloud-based platforms. In order to reduce errors and streamline business processes, enterprises seek to create a single, master source for all critical business data. Organizations...

Current and immutable backups are essential to a well-designed disaster recovery strategy. For many government organizations, however, the data powering mission-critical systems is growing and changing at a dizzying rate. Deciding the frequency of those backups is a complex balancing act, and the risk of ransomware hiding undetected on a system complicates those complications further.In this webcast, GCN Editor-in-Chief Troy Schneider will dis...

Government agencies generate and collect massive amounts of data, but have long struggled to extract value from all that information. Now the Federal Data Strategy provides a 10-year framework to “leverage the full value of federal data for mission, service and the public good,” and the signs of agencies’ seriousness are everywhere. Developing workforce data skills remains a challenge, while legacy systems continue to complic...

Ransomware is a growing threat for government organizations, and essential mission data can be compromised in many other ways—both accidental and malicious.Preventative defenses are essential, but not sufficient. Public-sector organizations must design their data systems to be resilient, and to allow for rapid recovery when disaster strikes. In this webcast, GCN Editor-in-Chief Troy Schneider will explore the steps some state and local g...

Post Sunburst, it is clearer than ever that agencies and contractors must revisit the way they manage and protect their data to minimize the risk of future nation-state attacks. It is critical that appropriate levels of cybersecurity practices and processes are in place to ensure basic cyber hygiene as well as protect controlled unclassified information (CUI) that resides on the Government industry partners' networks. Programs like DFARS, CMMC...

Government agencies, like their private industry counterparts, recognize the power of data insights to enable more citizen centric organizations and deliver better services. Effective analysis allows agencies to make smarter, more informed decisions, resulting in better outcomes. SAP is key to that, and the future of SAP is increasingly in the cloud. Yet, organizations moving to the cloud are often faced with a myriad of decisions and many cha...

"Effective data management is the central component of the department’s Digital Modernization Strategy." That quote comes from former Defense Department CIO Dana Deasy, but it holds true for every agency, at all levels of government. Legacy systems are giving way to cloud storage and interconnected services, producing both new complexities and new opportunities for data management and analytics. To take full advantage, organizations must...