Social media has significantly altered the cause and creation of crisis. In addition to facing the potential for major crises, which come along only occasionally, governments must now cope with the many mini-crises borne on social media as well. The new emphasis in crisis management? Diffuse the issue before it hits the mass media. Spero Canton will share inside information on the social media audiences you should be addressing and the most ef...

On the one hand technology adoption in healthcare has the promise of transforming the quality of healthcare, increase access and reduce costs. Yet healthcare appears to have suffered from some of the largest cybersecurity breaches to date. Join us for a look ahead for 2016 as Covenant Security Solutions, Founder and CEO Danyetta Magana talks to one of the nation’s leading health information technology and cybersecurity experts Dr. Mansur...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Given today's ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization's incident response planning.The threat of homegrown violent extremist (HVE) activities gives cause to reinforce, inform and assist our stakeholders on successful security practices which can mitigate, prevent or limit the severity of a violent act....

How to Get Data Mining Off the Ground and Into OrbitA Free One-Hour Live, Interactive Web EventProduced by The Modeling Agency“Guidance & Results for the Data-Rich, Yet Information-Poor”Presented by TMA Senior Consulting Staffhttp://www.the-modeling-agency.com/data-mining-webinarWHAT'S COVEREDThe vast majority of BI professionals are excited about the prospects of data mining and predictive analytics, but are fully mystified ab...

Legacy Systems Modernization Federal agencies are increasingly being tasked with improving efficiencies, security and business processes across the enterprise. From storage and consolidation requirements to privacy, security and transparency regulations; data and IT resource management continues to focus on integrating legacy platforms and processes with new requirements, and sometimes with new systems. The Legacy Systems Modernization breakfa...

The ATARC Federal Cloud Computing Summit will be held on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, D.C. This educational one-day symposium will feature cloud computing subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating on panels. (Cloud Summit Agenda) The MITRE-ATARC Cloud Symposium will discuss and white-board various cloud "challenge areas” and produce a White Paper...

About the Splunk Fundamentals Bootcamp – Designed as an introduction to the capabilities, interface and basic search and reporting of Splunk. Emphasis is placed on investigation and discovery through demos and hands-on labs culminating in a customized situational dashboard. Previous experience with Splunk is not required. Where: Live Hands-on WebEx WebinarWhen: Check the GTRI Events Page for upcoming Bootcamps. Time: Wednesdays 11 a.m. ...

Overview: Many Federal agencies are now utilizing Agile methods such as Scrum to manage their software development efforts. The goal for most of them is to reduce risk and accelerate system delivery to their end users. By using Scrum with the development team they have achieved part of their goal. But major risks and speedbumps still exist after the software is developed. These are encountered during deployment by the operations groups and ar...

REGISTER TODAY for the 13 January 2016 DC Metro NVSBC Boot Camp and Dinner meeting! If you have attended our events you know that the networking is off the charts. Come join us for another great evening! National Veteran Small Business Coalition - DC Metro Wednesday, 13 January 2016 Key Bridge Marriott 1401 Lee Hwy, Arlington, VA 22209 (Free Parking) REGISTER NOW! Early Bird Rate - register by midnight December 30! $45 for NVSBC Members, $55 f...

Cloud Computing and FedRAMP are now indistinguishable. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP is celebrating its three anniversary since IOC with more than thirty-six JAB or Agency approved cloud services, with more than forty more in process. This...