The 2022 Security Transformation Summit, presented by Fortinet Federal, will take on the pressing issues and technical challenges that public sector cybersecurity and IT management professionals are facing now. Participants will hear from government and industry thought leaders who will discuss 2023 priorities and how to incorporate future-proof security into evolving digital modernization initiatives. Learn how your colleagues from civilian a...

Approaching the one-year anniversary of the Office of Management and Budget’s memorandum on “Moving the U.S. Government Toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles,” this session will reflect on how agencies are meeting the specific criteria while utilizing ZT architecture. OMB’s memorandum involves centralizing identity management to provide enterprise identity and access management services to reduce the burden on agen...

Government Summit - Washington DC Join the Google Government Summit to learn how technology is helping government leaders achieve mission outcomes and unleash human potential.Google Public Sector is bringing together government and industry leaders from federal, state, and local government from the United States and around the world. Speakers include Jeanette Manfra, MK Palmore, Thomas Kurian and others.Request a spot in person for the full da...

Embracing a decentralized modern enterprise IT ecosystem means accepting that mission critical workloads don’t just run inside of the data center. Modern customer and employee experience demands from the business are rapidly forcing IT leaders to adapt to a hybrid environment approach. Application and data are increasingly spread among multiple agencies, legacy data centers, hyperscaler clouds, software as a service (SaaS) providers, and...

The cyber threats public sector organizations face continue to evolve. And all too often, agencies and institutions are focused on securing against the threats of the past rather than planning for the next sophisticated attack. However, with the emergence of security tools built on machine learning, AI, predictive analytics and extended detection and response, that no longer has to be the case. Join leaders from across the public sector techno...

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 federal government is well ahead of state and local governments in the implementation of a zero trust architecture because of the White House Executive Order on Cybersecurity last year. But state and local agencies see it in their immediate future - 67 percent of state CIOs who responded to the 2021 Annual State CIO Survey anticipate that introducing or expanding a zero-trust framework will receive more attention in the next two to three y...

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...

In May 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14028 on improving government cybersecurity. The order required that all federal agencies develop a plan to implement zero trust architectures for their IT systems, and set aggressive timelines for achieving this goal by 2024. The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines zero trust as “an evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move defenses from static, network-based...

In May of 2021, the White House issued the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, mandating that federal agencies begin taking decisive steps to modernize their approach to cybersecurity, with zero trust as the foundation. In that time, federal agencies have been diligently working to meet the Executive Order’s mandates. Last month, the Office of Management and Budget released M-22-16 Administration Cybersecurity...