Every federal agency recognizes that being audited is an often painful, always time-consuming process. The Department of Defense, for instance, has failed four audits in a row – but it is making progress after decades to keep its financial house in order. A Government Accountability Office report in 2020 identified several challenges that make it harder for agencies to earn clean fiscal bills of health, including problems with their fina...

International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and Office of Foreign Assets Controls & Embargoes (OFAC) Explained - complete with all Export Control Reform Changes and New Administration Priorities: This seminar series provides both novice and experienced export compliance professionals with a comprehensive education on complying with United States export regulations. We will review recent ECR ch...

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: TAKE THE GUESSWORK OUT OF RETIRING FROM FEDERAL SERVICE The ProFeds Federal Retirement Impact Workshop gives federal employees a no-nonsense approach to evaluating the financial impact of benefits decisions made as they near retirement. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Attendance is free-of-charge Class size limited to enrich training experience Training includes CSRS & FERS audiences Spouses are encouraged to attend Refreshments...

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With the constant evolution of innovative technology, federal officials must continue to adopt industry best practices and technology for critical military use in order to remain competitive and bolster the nation’s defense capabilities. Recent Department of Defense research and development has focused on initiatives such as the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability program and DARPA-led personalized protective biosystems development to sup...

The National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change released by the National Security Council in October of 2021 lists eight separate climate change effects, each of which portends impacts on food security: heat, heavy precipitation and flooding, drought, sea level rise, arctic ice melt, tropical cyclones, coral reefs, and biodiversity. As populations experience stressors over the production and consumption of food, the potential for mass hum...

In June 2021, the federal government was optimistic about returning to offices in the summer and began planning for reentry with new guidelines. The Delta variant surge paused those plans and caused a reexamination of the future work plans. Learn how agencies are adjusting to host of new and continuing challenges: a long term remote workforce, the technology and security challenges they face, how they are changing the way they manage the workf...

For many years, organizations have relied on the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework as a valuable resource to catalog adversary tactics and techniques. The information security community has leveraged ATT&CK to help guide investigations, write robust detections, and enrich threat intelligence. In June 2021, a cooperation between the National Security Agency (NSA) and MITRE released D3FEND, a complementary framework that provides insight int...

Could your username and password be a security risk for your organization? The simple answer is yes. The past year has seen an unprecedented rise in ransomware and phishing attacks targeting state and local governments.Join us online on Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. ET to hear from government and industry leaders about modern identity access management (IAM) approaches and tools to address these threats quickly and effectively. Specifically, yo...

The advent of cloud has been a boon to organizations, giving them the power and speed to vastly expand their compute capabilities. And the advent of cloud has created new security challenges, as enterprises have limited control, visibility, and network security across a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environment. There are different approaches to providing security in a multi-cloud architecture, from relying upon cloud service providers’ ow...