The NextGen Summit is the embodiment of what NextGen represents: inspiring government innovation and providing training and leadership opportunities for public servants. Since 2010, the two-day summit has inspired over 5,000 federal, state and local govies to be positive change ambassadors. This year, the NextGen Summit will be hosted virtually on August 19-20, 2020. Why does it matter to me? The NextGen Summit is a place to cultivate and enab...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. The Second Annual Charlotte Cyber Security Summit connects C-Suite & Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts.

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. Every year, FDR Training has been the trusted source of guidance for thousands of EEO, HR, ER/LR, and legal federal practitioners, offering unparalleled training plus the opportunity to hear from agency leaders. The health and well-being of our community – that has been growing for more than three decades – is our top p...

Fending off cyber threats and preserving cybersecurity has never been more challenging. Among federal, state and local executives, cybersecurity consistently tops the list of concerns that keep them up at night. Attack surfaces are larger; the universe of bad actors seeking to breach security is expanding; techniques for exploiting vulnerabilities are more sophisticated; and in a digitally transformed environment, the stakes are higher, as wel...

Today, agencies are striving to improve their application security programs, while at the same time, not slowing down the development, delivery, and deployment of their software applications. Can a balance be achieved between security and an organization’s (or agency’s) daily business requirements? We know it’s possible. Application Security (AppSec) Awareness Programs that are specifically focused on the development communit...

Together Paul and Dean have offered this seminar 19 times in 17 states and it has been attended by more than 1,000 students. The seminar provides comprehensive instruction in inspection and evaluation techniques for dams. The principles, concepts and procedures taught will be readily adaptable to any organization conducting dam inspections and evaluating their compliance with current design standards. Participants learn about a variety of dam...

The recent shift towards DevOps makes it clear that Federal agencies are moving forward with adopting this operational model to facilitate the practice of automating development, delivery, and deployment of mission-critical software. While the traditional idea of a software release dissolves into a continuous cycle of service and delivery improvements, agencies find that their conventional approaches to software security are having a difficult...

Managing Your Ethics in the Professional Setting Ethics training for the CIA, CPA, CFE and CISA to meet their CPE requirements. Look at Ethics from the from a number of perspectives: fraud examiner, investigator, auditor, accountant, attorney or business owner's. Each professional group provides their code of conduct or set of professional ethics. This seminar explores how to manage professionals behavior within these guidelines. This timely,...

A Practical Approach to ERM "Effective risk management allows an organization to have the confidence to take risks." The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has unveiled an update to its Enterprise Risk Management - Integrated Framework and is seeking public comment of the proposal, from June 15 through Sept. 30. The update, Enterprise Risk Management - Aligning Risk with Strategy and Performance, is designe...

This training event gets the attendee ready to meet the challenges of a high-tech, global marketplace to lead small projects and create successes for organizations. Build a solid base of project management knowledge, best practices, techniques, and tools in this 8 hour CPE event that covers the entire project life cycle. The key to success for your COSO 2013 implementation project to have effective project management. The use of project manage...