An Iron Will: Building Cyber Resilience in 2023 With cloud firmly entrenched as the primary IT system worldwide and cloud security now the foundation of cybersecurity programs, establishing cyber resilience across IT portfolios has become imperative. Threats to national cybersecurity continue to take center stage, including supply chain attacks, malware, and an ever-growing list of vulnerabilities. As nation-states conduct more and more cyber...

The AFCEA Las Vegas Chapter President, and the AFCEA Las Vegas Chapter Board, invite you to participate in the first ever Cyber Awareness & IT Days at NNSA's Nevada Field Office (NFO) and Nevada National Security Site. The events are also being co-hosted by the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) - Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). ​ Day One will take place at the NSF - Great Basin Conference Rooms - Nevada Fi...

Government and education IT teams are dealing with an explosion in demand for accessible databases, fueled by the deluge of new unstructured data, structured data, and application development. Whether enterprise apps, mobile, or newer technologies such as wearables and virtual reality devices, the velocity and volume of application growth will continue to expand. In fact, IDC predicts there will be 750 million applications by 2026. Apps and t...

Join us for CYBER 2022 the deepest dive into the cybersecurity solutions for government. We have structured this collaboration with the goal of furthering the President’s Executive Order on Enhancing the Nation’s Cyber Security and will focus on: Modernizing Federal Cybersecurity, Practices that Enhance the Software Supply Chain Security, Responding to Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities and Incidents, and Improving Detection of Cybersec...

The Top 10 list of enterprise risks facing CIOs in state, local, tribal and territorial agencies is both comprehensive and disturbing, covering everything from cybersecurity to compliance to workforce. High on that list is the technology, including how to manage and work with their cloud portfolios. These public agencies are looking to manage their data in public and private clouds, hybrid clouds or multi-clouds, whether on a daily basis, thro...

State and local governments identify moving to the cloud and incorporating artificial as high on their list of priorities. For instance, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency started using AI and analytics to import weather data in real time and develop a base analysis, which the agency’s meteorologists review and revise. This creates forecasts for weather alerts that can be sent quickly to vulnerable populations, including locations ou...

Join this informal discussion with Google Research Innovators to see how they’re solving problems at the intersection of public sector research and policy to deliver improved services to citizens. You’ll hear from Abhishek Dubey, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University, about how he’s using ML research to help the cities of Nashville and Chattanooga better plan their use of re...

In a recent survey, more than 60% of government employees said their agencies struggled with ensuring cloud solutions aligned with their policies or compliance requirements.Agencies who need new innovative solutions to help meet their missions deserve a better way to procure. So how can you navigate the vast options out there in order to pick the right tech for your organization?Join us online Wednesday, Sept. 7 from 2-2:45 p.m. ET/11-11:45 a....

Federal agencies have embraced cloud strategies as foundational to their transition to digital government, but their approaches come in many different flavors of cloud. As they’ve come to see the benefits, more agencies are adopting a hybrid cloud structure – one or more public and private cloud services that operate as separate but integrated entities. Hybrid cloud provides the cost optimization, agility and scalability of public...

Given the significant member interest following the July 22 AppSheet Case Management Platform Coffee Hour, we’re holding an AppSheet and Workspace Makers Group Kick-Off to explore potential solutions the community can build collectively. Taking a similar approach as they did with their case management platform, 7/22 hosts @joebrackenborough and @nathanielfisher will discuss and plan how to update and automate other processes. Cast your v...