When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) was signed into law in November 2021, it allocated $1.2 trillion for infrastructure initiatives across the country. While the focus has been on large tranches of funding allocated for sweeping categories of infrastructure – roads and bridges, internet connectivity, water systems, etc. – less attention has been paid to the role of digital transformation within these groupings. F...

The public sector is overburdened with repetitive and administrative work. But with automation, agencies in federal, state, and local government are offloading low-value work so that people can focus on serving the mission. From citizen service delivery and health care to rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse, automation boosts the government’s capacity, speed, accuracy, and resilience while improving employee and citizen engagement. Join...

Cyber-attacks and other disasters pose a constant risk to the IT operations of government agencies. The damage inflicted by these disruptions range in levels of severity and leave critical data and IT investments at risk for every hour of downtime. Preparing for a potential disaster may seem extreme, but thinking ahead and creating a plan for how to respond can make all the difference. A trustworthy modern data protection solution enables agen...

Public sector agencies are transforming how to execute mission operations and provide services to citizens. Through guidance from recent laws and executive orders including the Technology Modernization Fund, the Evidence Act, memorandum M-19-21, as well as the 2021 Executive Order to improve Customer Experience (CXO), agency leaders are driving innovation and leveraging data to transform how their organizations are able to govern and serve the...

Headlines across the country have shown that ransomware can target organizations of any size, from the smallest town hall to major state agencies. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law earlier this year included $1 billion for grants to be awarded to state, local, or tribal governments to address cybersecurity risks and threats such as ransomware. At the same time, cyber insurance providers have been raising their premiums...

Computer Forensics is one of the fastest growing sectors in the cybersecurity landscape. EC-Council MasterClass has developed a combined program to give students a leg up! Incident response and forensic analysis are related disciplines that can leverage similar tools and related data sets and since incident response is often considered a subset of the broader computer forensic discipline, EC-Council MasterClass is bundling both the Computer H...

In today’s heatedly competitive job market, government agencies need solutions for retaining top performers, upskilling and reskilling the workforce, and recruiting new talent efficiently. Having a strong Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) program is critical to attract and retain top talent. The use of responsible artificial intelligence (AI) can improve agencies’ diversity goals, while adhering to well-defined...

Emerging computing technologies—from cloud, to edge, to machine learning, artificial intelligence and others—are helping agencies to achieve better, faster, cheaper processing and problem solving, as well as more efficient applications. With their increasing incorporation into federal agencies’ everyday operations, these technologies also bring challenges, from security to operational and data privacy issues. Cloud computing...

The U.S. military understands the importance of strategy, and planning out the logistics of supporting that strategy. Once the big objective is determined, leaders determine the strategy that will achieve it, then work upstream, identifying the materials and manpower required, the order of events, bottlenecks to be addressed, and so on.This approach should apply to the entire federal government’s efforts to implement zero trust. The obje...

Today, data is the most strategic asset for every government agency. State and local agencies hold a vast amount of data about their residents, including personally identifiable information. One result: the databases have become attractive targets for cyber attacks, from stealing data to sell to disrupting agency operations or services. All state and local agencies have security in place to protect their systems and data, but in the past coupl...