Everyone has seen media reports that Russian soldiers are using personal cellphones, rather than encrypted communications, because they made the mistake of destroying 4G and 5G towers. In military terms, they find themselves operating in a “denied environment,” because they accidentally rendered their comms network inoperable.All soldiers in a combat situation are operating at the “tactical edge,” where things like limi...

The Certified Ethical Hacker certification is one of the most sought-after cybersecurity certifications around the globe. Organizations like the DoD and ANSI have endorsed and/or accredited the CEH course. Want to Master CEH? This program incorporates instruction and practice to get students ready to take the CEH certification exam as well as the CEH Practical Exam. Candidates who successfully pass both exams earn the CEH Master credential as...

Ever since the White House issued its Cybersecurity Executive Order in May 2021, a lot of attention has been paid to the concept of zero trust embedded as its core objective. But the reason to get to zero trust is to protect the data – after all, what do system intruders want? To read, or alter, or copy the data, which they can then use for their own purposes, from monetizing intellectual property to stealing someone’s identity to...

Safeguarding customer access yields better service Federal agencies have faced unprecedented demands over the past few years, as the pandemic shut down physical offices, forcing employees to work from home and requiring agencies to completely rethink how to provide services. Data breaches and accelerating ransomware attacks have harmed agencies’ operations just as they became dependent on online delivery of services. Now agencies are bei...

Last year, the U.S. healthcare system faced unimaginable demands created by the pandemic. Unfortunately, 2021 also was a banner year for healthcare data breaches – more than 40 million individuals’ health records were exposed. Nor are the cyber threats limited to personal records. Ransomware attacks locked down and encrypted hospitals’ and health departments’ data, and the Food and Drug Administration issued a Class I r...

Words like “bureaucracy” and “red tape” often come to mind when folks think about government, but the quality of customer service is changing – for the better. In December 2021, the White House issued its "Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government." In conjunction with the President's Management Agenda addressing customer experience, agencies ha...

Postgres Conference Silicon Valley is back and still the largest gathering about People, Postgres, Data on the West Coast! An inclusive and equitable event we bring together a best-in-talent combination of speakers, attendees, and sponsors to build opportunities for the global Postgres ecosystem.

The April 2022 Enterprise Data & AI featured guest speaker is Venkat Gunnu, Senior Director, Data Science & Innovation at Comcast and his presentation ‘Building the Data Science Center of Excellence at Comcast’ Thursday, April 7, 2022 from 11:30 AM - 1 PM ET! Data science is transforming business and generating new value across the organization. Data science still often requires dedicated technology and sophisticated teams...

Confluent, AWS, Databricks, and MongoDB are coming to New York. Today’s customers expect real-time data from businesses. To rise to these expectations, modern organizations are deploying data streaming technology, the most popular of which is Apache Kafka. Join us to talk through what “a day in the life” of data professionals who work with Kafka looks like now, and what Confluent’s cloud-native, Kafka-based platform can...

Shift Your Organization's Strategyinto Actionable Game Plans This Briefing is Co-Chaired by ICIT and MFGS, Inc. an ICIT Fellow Program Member. Securing our national security and critical infrastructures requires innovation and savvy leadership. Strategic planning transcends conceptual planning to provide organizations with tactical plans for innovation and governance. The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), in partnership...