The Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2019 (GREAT Act) will require higher education actions to meet the federal government's intent to modernize grant reporting. This will help researchers and government officials understand the topics being submitted, allow researchers to see if others are submitting the same requests, and will reward successful performances of grant recipients. Implementing data management chang...

Reduce the risk of security breaches by understanding and protecting what matters most: your critical data. Establishing metadata-driven intelligence and automation to operationalize data protection management helps you discover, classify, analyze, protect, and monitor sensitive data across your organization. Whether your sensitive data is structured, semi-structured or unstructured data in the cloud, on premises, in big data stores, or in rel...

Since the 2019 Foundations for Evidence Based Policy Making Act became law, federal agency success in meeting the embedded mandate to inventory and catalog all of their data continues to achieve mixed results. It doesn't have to be that way. Automating these processes and democratizing data for internal and public facing use is within reach now. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the largest federal law enforcement agency within the U.S. Dep...

The Department of Transportation (DOT)’s mission involves transporting people and goods safely and efficiently. Sustainability and equity are also mandates. Getting crucial data to the right people helps them achieve these objectives. Yet, according to the World Economic Forum, 70% of data management projects at DOT fail the first time. Why? The data lacks the proper context for its most effective use. Data governance best practices, how...

Federal agencies work with vast amounts of data from numerous, varied sources. It’s a huge undertaking. Agencies depend on access to the most useful, actionable data for insights into improving citizen services. A data fabric framework helps agencies in this mission. It uses AI-driven automation and intelligence to cut costs and drive efficiencies. It also reduces risk to data security and privacy. Join us this March 30th at 12:00 PM EST...

To meet the federal mandate's requirements of a Zero-Trust architecture and enable to appropriate use of sensitive data, agencies need a consistent, reliable approach that reduces risk and protects data at scale. Join us for the first session of our Kickstart to Compliance webinar series discussing the steps you can take to incorporate modern digital solutions that enable zero trust strategies in your agency. During this kickoff session, a...

The need to leverage data — at unprecedented scale and complexity, with unprecedented speed and accuracy — has led to agencies struggling to manage information across multiple databases and systems. Agencies require a simplified approach to govern their data between disparate systems and meet FedRAMP requirements. This webinar discussed how agencies that currently use Salesforce can leverage Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services...

Join us for the next session of our Kickstart to Compliance webinar series covering the second step on your journey toward achieving ZTA data pillar optimal level. To comply with federal mandates and protect sensitive data, agencies must develop an approach to identify and prioritize data protection needs. This includes understanding the different techniques for field and record level protection, such as encryption, persistent data masking, d...

We wrapped up our journey to achieving optimal level of the ZTA data pillar in the third and final session in the Kickstart to Compliance Series. This session focused on three key functions, including: access determination where we introduced dynamic data masking to provide least privilege techniques to data access, visibility and analytics capability to showcase DPM’s user access monitoring and user anomaly detection trending/visualizat...

Delivering a high-quality digital experience for students, faculty, and administrators provides the backbone for a modern campus experience, including remaining competitive when recruiting and retaining the best students and faculty. Having accessible integrated, trusted, and complete data is foundational to achieving seamless student interactions throughout departments and schools to providing faculty and administrator’s improved consul...