Cybersecurity is a perennial challenge for financial services firms. Even the most powerful and sophisticated cybersecurity teams are confronted by equally powerful and sophisticated hackers (many funded by nation states). And while standards and frameworks such as NIST’s cybersecurity framework and the MITRE ATT&CK framework can provide helpful guidelines, many times financial services firms find themselves operating far ahead of th...

AGA’s Professional Development Training (PDT) brings together a broad audience of more than 2,000 federal, state and local government financial professionals, including federal, state and local government CFOs, inspectors general, accountants, auditors as well as financial professionals from the private sector. PDT offers educational sessions over three days of training. Participants can earn up to 21 hours of NASBA-approved continuing p...

We're happy to announce the Building Maintenance and Operations (BMO) Overview and Delegation of Procurement Authority (DPA) Training Session. A virtual session will be held on Tuesday, July 20,1:30-3:00 eastern (12:30-2:00 central). The training will provide an overview of the BMO acquisition strategy for this government-wide strategic sourcing, Best-In-Class contract vehicle as well as detailed ordering procedures on how to use it. Who shoul...

Who Should Attend: All federal users including contracting officers, program office officials, managers, and executive staff are invited to participate in these complimentary webinars to learn how the VETS 2 GWAC can support their agency IT project initiatives. Warranted contracting officers must complete this training before requesting a Delegation of Procurement Authority (DPA), which will authorize them to issue orders against the VETS 2 GW...

Customer and employee experience (CX) is becoming increasingly important to organizations across the government. Both customers and employees see and participate in technological advances promoted by the private sector, and want to see government make use of the same kinds of tools. A robust digital system to track data from citizens, partners and employees is critical in this modern era, as the federal government moves more and more resources...

Join VMware and Carahsoft on Tuesday, July 20th at 2:00pm ET for a discussion around Zero Trust and how VMware is helping organizations strengthen their security posture for today’s distributed and remote workforce. Agencies are adapting to distributed operations and the importance of having a digital-first mindset. Zero Trust is a NIST security standard centered on the belief that organizations should not automatically trust anything in...

E-commerce is the fastest-growing retail sector in the US. New firms enter the market each day, and sustained growth is expected to continue over the coming years. Nearly every state now has some form of economic nexus laws, but limited data on out-of-state businesses makes it difficult to determine who should be filing. Furthermore, resource constraints limit agencies’ ability to stand up compliance efforts to enforce relatively new req...

Join Splunk & Carahsoft for a Splunk 101 session hosted by Splunk's SE team. This is a great opportunity for you to discover the value of Splunk. During this presentation, we will go over an introduction to Splunk Enterprise, with a demonstration of core Splunk functionality. The demonstration will include creating basic searches, alerts, reports, and dashboards.Attendees will also gain insight into:Operating Efficiency: Make the most of y...

Small businesses often lack the financial resources to staff their accounting departments with the expertise necessary to fuel strategic growth. Companies need a unique skillset to achieve and maintain accounting compliance in government contracts and many local CPAs lack this expertise. That's where outsourced accounting and automated bookkeeping comes into play, especially for government contractors. Working with a firm that can configure th...

Join us for a webinar covering Splunk’s FedRAMP Cloud offering and what this means for The Department of Interior (DOI). During this DOI-focused webinar, attendees will gain insight regarding: Overview of Splunk’s FedRAMP SaaS offering Key benefits when compared to hosting Splunk on-premises Splunk apps and premium solutions authorized for use Total cost of ownership (TCO) and licensing considerations Architecture and migration str...