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...

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Some of the most devastating cyber breaches are originating from the DevOps space. Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a critical area of access risk management and identity security at any agency. Privileged accounts have traditionally been given to administrators to access data and applications but with the shifts towards remote work and users, access management needed to adapt. Changing business practices, hybrid IT, cloud, and other form...

As the nation faces more persistent and sophisticated cyber threats than ever before, federal agencies can no longer take for granted that their systems and applications are secure. With that in mind, the federal government is taking unprecedented measures to protect the highly sensitive information of Americans. Central to the government’s efforts to deter, protect against, detect, and respond to a constant barrage of attacks, the Biden...

What do leading public sector organizations have in common that sets them apart from the rest? They transformed into digital enterprises built on modern applications and multiple clouds. Reinventing an org in that fashion doesn’t come easy. The key to this evolution is to upskill and invest in your current talent, first. Join A Cloud Guru expert Drew Firment, Assistant VP of Cloud Center at the Federal Reserve System, Chris Barker, and f...

Federal agencies have been mandated to adopt a zero-trust architecture, Federal leaders must develop a plan to implement a zero-trust architecture, incorporating as appropriate the migration steps that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has laid out. Agency heads need to describe the steps already completed to move to zero trust, identify activities that will have the most immediate security impact and include a schedule to imp...

In-Person registration closed GSMCON helps government professionals use social media better. The Government Social Media Conference (GSMCON) is the largest social media conference in the United States for government agencies. Everyone interested in learning how to strategically use social media in government is welcome to participate. Our attendees represent city, county, state, federal and military entities. Representatives of educational ins...

Cyberthreats are disrupting our lives now more than ever, and we’ve reached a tipping point. Agencies are turning to Zero Trust for complete network security, but are unsure how to make Zero Trust actionable. Digital transformation is accelerating, with key shifts such as the expanding hybrid workforce and continued migration of applications and data to the cloud. As we make this transformation, information security teams have the opport...

Government agencies everywhere generate massive amounts of data. For many agencies, it is the core of their operations, whether processing benefits applications, screening financial transactions for illegal activities, measuring the impact of weather events, or myriad other uses. Data is critical to making DevOps (DevSecOps, too) work. It is the reason migrating to the cloud opens up such possibilities for new services. It is why setting up a...

On March 23, 2022, we are going to host our annual Government Summit, in-person, in downtown Washington, DC.  We’re excited to bring this event to you again (for the first time since the pandemic), enabling our clients to share best practices, learn from one another, and strengthen the federal learning leadership community. We are excited to be in-person again this year. Breakfast, coffee, snack breaks, and lunch are included. This...