According to Ponemon, 88% of public sector organizations have experienced at least one cyber-attack in the past two years. Why? Public sector organizations offer an abundance of sensitive data for hackers including social security numbers, confidential health and finance records, and valuable intellectual property. The number of hacking, ransomware, and cybercrime events continues to grow. Are you prepared? Join Otava, Veeam, and Carahsoft as...

Did you know that 53% of website visitors will leave a webpage that doesn't load within three seconds? As a nonprofit organization, optimizing the user journey for your donors, volunteers, and community members is critical to achieving your mission. Join Splunk and CDW for a webinar where we'll discuss what Google Core Web Vitals are and the impact the standardized metrics have on understanding your digital pathways to participation. With Splu...

The pandemic and great resignation have put talent acquisition and employee retainment front and center for companies and federal agencies alike. Today, there are several emerging technologies that can make a substantial impact on improving recruitment, reducing regrettable attrition, and promoting diversity and inclusion. At the forefront of this innovation is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Yet misconceptions, misunderstandings, and a lack of...

Governments everywhere and at all levels should be applauded for finding ways to meet their citizens’ needs during the pandemic. While many agencies had continuity-of-operations plans in place, no one imagined that every agency would have to act on them at the same time. What made it possible, of course, was the rapid spread of cloud-based technology that enabled government employees to work from their own homes, frequently using their o...

Schools, districts, and states produce a substantial amount of educational data, but very few are able to view it in real-time and draw out impactful insights. State Education Agencies (SEAs) are in a unique position to meet these needs. Google Cloud and Double Line have partnered to create a Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) solution. The solution integrates real-time data from schools and other sources (like HR and finance), has an o...

The U.S. military maintains bases in more than 70 countries and territories around the world, some of them in inhospitable or hard-to-reach areas. When a piece of equipment fails – whether a weapon, a radar dish, or something more prosaic like a mess hall stove – getting replacement parts can be difficult and time-consuming, and the delay can cause anything from mild inconvenience to serious problems meeting the mission. Larger bas...

Public sector agencies’ digital strategies were put to the test by the pandemic. With legacy and manual systems pushed to their limits by the new digital age, agency leaders were faced with the unprecedented task of scaling digital solutions which suddenly became the default channel for millions of interactions with the population. Public sector professionals stepped up to the challenge. However, as the effects of the pandemic ease, indi...

Join us to learn how municipal and county governments can quickly deploy constituent-centric experiences, speed up service delivery, and scale fast to meet Environmental Health (Permitting, Inspections, and Code Enforcement) mission demands with purpose-built applications for the Public Sector. Summit Technologies will showcase a live demonstration of capabilities of their Zembretta Environmental Health Accelerator on the Salesforce Government...

The (ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) credential to ensures that cloud security professionals have the required knowledge, skills, and abilities in cloud security design, implementation, architecture, operations, controls, and compliance with regulatory frameworks. The CCSP OnDemand is a self-paced learning solution that covers the 6 domains of the CCSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) in order to study for the CCSP examin...

Government agencies continue to expand their digital service offerings, making it easier than ever before for the public to access critical benefits and services online. However, this rapid expansion of digital services has opened the door to unprecedented identity fraud and abuse, costing billions of dollars. In many cases, additional customer friction was introduced for identity verification processes as a mechanism for reducing fraud. But t...