Government has no shortage of data, and agencies increasingly are looking to leverage that data in new ways to improve mission delivery. Doing so, however, requires a holistic understanding of both the available data and the central mission goals. Chief Data Officers bring essential expertise and attention to these efforts, but truly data-driven government requires buy-in at every level of the organization. In today’s environments, every...

Time and time again, data breaches demonstrate the pitfalls of relying on detection to identify malicious activities taking place on the network, rather than prevention of the threat in the first place. The emphasis—post event—has been what the agency did wrong. But, what if we took a different approach that allowed agencies to share what has been working for them? Both before and after. Some tips and lessons from folks who have be...

In just a few short years, Robotic Process Automation has gone from a few scattered pilot projects to an essential tool deployed by dozens of agencies. Hundreds of thousands of staff-hours have been saved, and organizations are increasingly looking to leverage artificial intelligence to automate more-complicated workflows. Automation at scale comes with challenges, however -- from credential management to siloed systems to ensuring that outdat...

Although it got an encouraging $1 billion funding shot in the arm from the American Rescue Plan Act in early 2020, the effort to modernize and transform an aging infrastructure remains a complicated task that takes coordination, executive buy-in and detailed security and data strategies to make it work. The $1 billion set aside for the Technology Modernization Fund in the ARP smooths some modernization budgeting issues for agencies, which have...

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...

As the DoD and Federal agencies go all in on enabling all-domain collaboration, a Zero Trust approach to the secure access and transfer of data and files at mission speed across segmented/isolated networks needs to be a central part of the strategy. By deploying Raise the Bar-compliant Cross Domain Solutions, agencies can reduce risk, enable efficient MPE collaboration, decrease costs and infrastructure and ultimately, ensure mission continuit...

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...

As DOD continues the roll-out of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, both government acquisition professionals and the contracting community are scrambling to understand and implement the certification requirements. Join us to learn the latest on what is required and what may be ahead for acquisition and contracting executives concerning cyber certifications and audits as government and industry experts share their insights...

How confident are you that your agency's databases are protected from today's increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks and insider threats? The government is awash with IT transformations—and data protection is no exception. Join us for a live, interactive webinar as our experts share best practices in safeguarding your data and improving governance for workloads across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. You'll walk away with an...

The federal government has been working to update its policies, architectures and frameworks around digital identity for some time. OMB revised its Identity Credential and Access Management guide in May of 2019 and that National Institute for Standards and Technology has been working on an updated version of its guidance on security and privacy controls for information systems. Then, the pandemic hit, and all programs went into overdrive as ag...