Organizations are constantly under increasing pressure to provide always-on availability of applications and services. Meeting these expectations calls for an IT resilience strategy that protects against unexpected disruptions that can take services offline and disrupt business operations. Federal agencies must employ a DR strategy that does not merely protect data, but also provides fully automated failover and an ability to routinely test re...

Time and time again, data breaches demonstrate the pitfalls of relying on detection to identify malicious activities taking place on the network, rather than prevention of the threat in the first place. The emphasis—post event—has been what the agency did wrong. But, what if we took a different approach that allowed agencies to share what has been working for them? Both before and after. Some tips and lessons from folks who have be...

In just a few short years, Robotic Process Automation has gone from a few scattered pilot projects to an essential tool deployed by dozens of agencies. Hundreds of thousands of staff-hours have been saved, and organizations are increasingly looking to leverage artificial intelligence to automate more-complicated workflows. Automation at scale comes with challenges, however -- from credential management to siloed systems to ensuring that outdat...

Arm DevSummit 2021 is an immersive, three-day virtual conference for software and hardware practitioners from across the world. Held on 19–21 October, Arm DevSummit brings together the brightest and best from mobile and high-performance computing, chip design, machine learning, autonomous technology and the internet of things. Join our global community of hardware designers and software developers for an online program that puts cutting-...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 10/19-10/21/2021 Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21): Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience advances a national policy to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning, and resilient critical infrastructure. The Nation’s critical infrastructure provides the essential services that underpin American society. Pr...

The concept of disaster recovery can have many meanings for federal agencies. And what exactly defines a disaster? Well-publicized ransomware attacks are certainly one example where public-facing organizations require proactive response plans to recover critical systems. But that’s just one scenario – and any agency leader will understand the value of people, processes and technology as key pieces to a well-tested, affordable recov...

Join David Hughes, founder of Silver Peak and Aruba CTO and Conrad Menezes from the office of the CTO for an interactive tech talk on how COVID-19 and today’s “work from anywhere” normal is accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation and driving the requirement to transform conventional data center and MPLS-centric networks and perimeter-based security models to a modern cloud-native, internet-based SASE arch...

We'll get insight into how cloud infrastructure development facilitates IT modernization across federal agencies during this event. Hear from federal executives on their agency’s cloud strategies and how the newly available wealth of data and analytic power is pushing new frontiers in research while improving agency services, along with how the federal government is upholding IT security amidst cloud migration. Visit bit.ly/GovCIOCloudSu...

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Although it got an encouraging $1 billion funding shot in the arm from the American Rescue Plan Act in early 2020, the effort to modernize and transform an aging infrastructure remains a complicated task that takes coordination, executive buy-in and detailed security and data strategies to make it work. The $1 billion set aside for the Technology Modernization Fund in the ARP smooths some modernization budgeting issues for agencies, which have...