Every year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are raising the FISMA requirements to achieve the ultimate goal of “Near-Real-Time System Security Awareness” and “Ongoing Authorization.” Additionally, they are making available automated security solutions to improve our protection and security awareness for our systems. How do you project, plan and program for these requir...

Cloud Computing continues to grow in importance in the public sector. Agency personnel responsible for developing and implementing cloud-based solutions -- for implementing data center consolidation and other technology efficiencies -- continue to look for opportunities to learn about the best technologies, configurations, service and deployment models and appropriate mix of cloud services -- based on their government agency requirements. Digi...

If you are in a Federal Agency, Military, or supporting contractor organization, you can successfully and effectively meet your FY2016 FISMA requirements by understanding the FISMA trends and proven successful, security strategies and solutions. Attendees will be provided: System deployment strategies to prevent OPM type attacks, like "air-gaps" and "connect-and-protect", Automated solutions to support "ongoing authorizations", Simple manageme...

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last three years alone, and much of it is unstructured. It's not just the amount of data that presents challenges; the types of data being collected are changing and coming from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records...

Digital Government Institute (DGI), celebrating over 17 years as a trusted source of education, networking, and training programs on the most important topics facing government IT management professionals, presents the third annual FREE 930gov Showcase (930 representing government's September 30th fiscal year-end.) All government agencies and industry organizations rely on an effective strategy to be successful, including IT investment, manag...

There are plenty of changes underway in how the federal government operates and manages technology for improving service, including the Administration challenging government agencies to focus on effective ways to foster citizen engagement. DGI's 15th Government Customer Service Conference -- which is free for government professionals -- will explore the policies, applications and technologies involved with improving customer and citizen servic...

September 30, 2014, government agencies were to update their public networks to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) to comply with OMB guidance. As Federal agencies integrated IPv6 within their current operations, they now have the opportunity to employ new technology to optimize and enhance business functions and improve operational efficiencies and citizen services. The technological advances provided by the new protocol suite, including enha...

Knowledge Management practices in the Federal Government have the potential to dramatically impact service-delivery and our nation's security. By enhancing KM strategies, government agencies can more effectively collect, organize, preserve, share and analyze data and institutional knowledge of the agency and its employees to benefit current and future projects. These benefits would result in improved communications, operations, decision making...

As a follow-up to Digital Government Institute’s popular flagship E-Discovery, Records & Information Conference held in March, government Records Management professionals will gather in August to network and continue the dialog about e-discovery, records and information management policies, applications and technologies, to include updates to meeting the Government Records Directive requirements. The Records Management Conference is...

Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamlessly and maneuver easily. No matter what technology is touted, or how service oriented and agile the applications are -- especially cloud-based or SAAS environments -- technology systems must be designed and implemented to support the business or mission and enable processes. If integrated IT systems don't work or fail, the...