In the federal government, many agencies are tasked with using yesterday’s technology to protect today’s data. Maintaining legacy systems eats up 75 percent of federal IT dollars, leaving only a quarter of the budget for modernization and enhancement. But these older systems are increasingly vulnerability to cyberattacks, making those updates even more essential. With limited government IT budgets, how can agencies maximize the pro...

Taking Compliance from a Costly Time Sink to a Security Enabler Regulatory Compliance - a term that engenders a visceral reaction in every agency, customer, and institution. Fines and penalties imposed by regulatory agencies can cripple your operations and cause significant operational impact in responding to audits. Many agencies estimate an average of six week level of effort in responding to audits for every application environment. So, jus...

Prerequisite: Should have at least six months of contract experience, have taken the FAR Workshop or another basic FAR course before this course. What you will learn: The Advanced FAR Workshop provides an in-depth analysis of the most important parts of the FAR. In this two-day class, we will focus on those FAR Parts that tend to generate the most issues and questions, specifically: • The classification of workers • Intellectual Prop...

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. ...

It's Time to Innovate and Look Forward The Australian Public Sector: True Connections One-day case study led forum and two post forum workshops.It's not about making do with less, but by doing more through enhancing your current understanding of the new marketing and communication functions at play. Case studies in developing, implementing, introducing and managing a brand from: Government of NSW Australian National University Arrow Internet N...

Contract closeout procedures can vary widely based on contract type, complexity of the contract, price adjustments, and numerous other factors. It is important for Contracting Officers, CORs, ACO’s and other members of the close out team to be up to date on the rules, regulations, procedures and best practices involved in this essential task. Building a solid relationship with the cognizant players, such as payment and audit offices, th...

With ever-expanding mission requirements, continuing budgetary challenges, and cumbersome legacy IT systems, federal agencies are faced with many hurdles to become fully evolved digital enterprises. Today, a single large agency or department may have many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of outdated systems in place – making meeting mission requirements in a costly, efficient, and effective manner all the more difficult. On June 21st, Servic...

The Administration has proposed a budgetary increase of $3.1 billion for modernization of the core infrastructure that runs most Federal agencies. The goal is to achieve these three primary goals: Address cybersecurity loopholes inherent in older systems; contain costly maintenance requirements and the inefficiency of legacy technology; and develop a more modern and reliable architecture that leverages cloud infrastructure and services. These...

Amazon Web Services will host our seventh annual Public Sector Summit for government, education and nonprofit organizations on June 20-21, 2016 in Washington, DC. The AWS Public Sector Summit is one of the world’s largest public sector cloud gatherings and brings together developers, IT, and line of business leaders to address current best practices and trends in cloud computing as well as solutions that can be instantly applied. Session...

Just ask Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Roger Goodell (NFL) how serious the problem is. Both were recently hacked using stolen credentials. Find out how to detect how many of your organization's credentials have been stolen and how to automate your security response. Join Kevin Lancaster, ID Agent CEO, on June 20, 2016, at 1 p.m. EDT, as he discusses: How stolen email addresses and passwords make it easy to hack organizations The staggering in...