U.S. Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM's) enterprise network supports more than 80,000 users and operators spanning 24 time zones across the world, making it the fourth largest network in the DoD. The IT teams that manage the network are tasked with a singular mission—connecting operators to the data, communications, devices and applications needed to achieve mission success. Any enterprise network is susceptible to internal an...

Information has always been the key to success on and off the battlefield, but that success depends on having that information available at the right place at the right time. The transition to a “digital force” has data production and consumption growing at exponential rates. During this webinar, we'll take the nuances and challenge of battlefield data management into account as we discuss practical solutions to meet tactical DataO...

Federal defense and civilian organizations responsible for communications acknowledge the critical need to improve mobility and remote work solutions for classified workers. Now, turnkey enterprise-class network solutions combined with industry-leading secure software are delivering the benefits of classified access to warfighters and remote and mobile workers in the field. These systems allow end users to use commercial mobile devices to acce...

The driving need for collecting volumes of data in real time to support military and humanitarian operations in rapidly shifting environments is pushing organizations to find faster and more efficient ways to access data and to share it securely across classification levels. New hardware-based cross-domain solutions are enabling new ways of operating, combining access and transfer capabilities to help users in classified spaces access and cons...

The cybersecurity landscape for the U.S. government is continuously evolving. The U.S. government is embracing DevSecOps and paving the way for digital transformation. Free and readily available open source components allow federal agencies to save time and money and in many cases improve quality empowering innovation velocity. In today’s world, understanding what’s in your open source software supply chain is critical to national...

In 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order that mandated agencies to start planning for the migration to a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). Since then, hundreds of tech companies have jumped on the zero trust bandwagon. Unfortunately, the market is now crowded with no shortage of overzealous misinformation and hyperbole. It is clear to us that the current zero trust conversation is not resonating with most organizations. For governme...

When the "Fix My Computer" social post went viral in early 2022, instead of dismissing or ignoring, the reaction from U.S. Air Force leadership was to embrace the idea that improving end user experiences and IT performance was critical for mission success. Join the Air Force's Chief Experience Officer (CXO) Col. Lloyd "Colt" Whittall for an engaging and informative discussion about how the Air Force has embraced the call to improve end user ex...

In future conflicts, military forces will be required to operate in smaller, mobile constructs, with increased awareness of their presence in the physical and electromagnetic domains. These units must be able to command and control without connection to an overarching network or the continuous need for satellite communications. Their networks must be node-aware, self-forming, and self-healing, with the ability to add and remove transports depe...

National Security Solutions (NSS) and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center have been working together to take Installation of the Future to the next level. NSS's ID2Access security solution protects people and resources at military bases, embassies and the nation’s most critical facilities. By creating a single, resolved and vetted identity for each person in contact with your organization—employees or visitors...

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions brought simplicity, scalability and more security for IT remote access use cases. This is long overdue for industrial cybersecurity. Traditional IT security approaches such as VPNs and Jump servers as well as IT security oriented ZTNA solutions have several limitations and complexity when it comes to providing streamlined and fully secure remote access for an Operational Technology (OT) environment wh...