Many state and local public works agencies are planning to leverage the upcoming infrastructure package from Congress to tackle their growing list of infrastructure planning, maintenance, and rehabilitation needs. Planning for infrastructure development can be difficult when agencies are relying on single-purpose computer-aided design (CAD) systems that don't support a rapid, agile design workflows or today's remote collaboration needs. MicroS...

The AFERM Summit Planning Committee is actively planning another stellar set of presentations for this year’s 14th Annual ERM Summit Training Event. This year’s Summit Planning Chair is Marianne Roth at CFPB and the Co-Chair is Mike Batlogg at SEC. Join your fellow ERM practitioners at the 2021 AFERM Virtual Summit Training to explore this year’s theme “ERM in a Changing World” online on October 26-27, 2021. Addit...

Understand the laws and regulations that apply to government contractors with hourly service workers. The Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS/SCA) are one of the most challenging requirements for contractors with federal service contracts, from award competition to successful contract administration. This course is designed to help you understand the laws and regulations that apply to government contractors with hourly service workers and a...

Briefing Summary: Security operations centers (SOC) are the backbone of the cybersecurity industry providing defense, mitigation, and incident response against risks and attacks. However, SOCs are often criticized as ineffective, and one of the most frequently asked questions about SOC performance is “how to measure SOC effectiveness?” While mean time to resolution (MTTR) is the standard measure of effectiveness, this high-level me...

Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running data and AI projects without taking the right steps to ensure their success. Agile and iterative approaches have become adopted best practices for application development projects, but why don’t we have something similar when it comes to advanced analytics, big data, and AI projects? Without using best-practices approaches that standardize steps for data preparation...

The relevance and importance of DevSecOps has grown in the past few years as agencies solidify their moves toward automating their software delivery lifecycle, especially in light of several major recent attacks that specifically target security gaps within the development process. Tune into this panel to hear from DOD experts on the importance of DevSecOps and what is in store for it in the future. Where do these panelists see the future of D...

"How to prevent and detect corporate fraud!!" Under COSO 2013, Principle 8: "The organization considers the potential for fraud in assessing risks to the achievement of objectives". Corporate fraud is more prevalent today than ever before. Layoffs, pressures, incentives, anonymity, computerization, and lack of privacy are all contributing factors. This CPE event is focused on presenting the internal controls to fraud prevention and detection....

Do you understand PCAOB Auditing Standard 2315: Audit Sampling? Audit sampling is the application of an audit procedure to less than 100 percent of the items within an account balance or class of transactions for the purpose of evaluating some characteristic of the balance or class. PCAOB Audit Standard 2315: Audit Sampling provides an overview of the guidance for planning, performing, and evaluating audit samples. The purpose of audit samplin...

Enterprise-wide automation is crucial for IT organizations to meet deadlines, overcome budgetary constraints, scale infrastructure and innovate across hybrid and MultiCloud environments.With an integrated solution from Red Hat and Dell Technologies, you can automate all aspects of your IT infrastructure. Red Hat Ansible is a simple, agentless technology that makes automation easy and accessible for everyone. Dell EMC Networking simplifies data...

IBM Mainframe and System i are critical systems in many government agencies. However, due to technical issues around the legacy nature of these systems they are often left out of important modern IT initiatives. Ironstream is a solution that gets the machine data from these platforms, automatically transforms and forwards it in real-time into Splunk. Learn about the types of log data on these systems and the challenges around accessing this lo...