Organizations are expected to perform their duty of care by protecting the organization, its clients, suppliers, and the general public from foreseeable harm. Until recently, the jobs of the Chief Information Security Officer, Risk Officer, and Compliance Officer have been challenging to determine what is foreseeable. Fortunately, the data is available to predict the likeliest threat vectors — paths cybercriminals use to gain access to a...

The Defense Information Systems Agency is, in many ways, the point of the cyber spear for the Department of Defense. It’s responsible for conducting network operations across all of DOD’s warfighting domains to ensure warfighters’ effectiveness and lethality.Maintaining that sharp edge during the pandemic has required DISA to adjust and evolve its own operations while assisting Defense agencies to ensure their operations cont...

The Texas Cyber Summit is a IRS-501(c)3 Non-Profit Fusion: A fusion of Cybersecurity Professionals and World Renown Hackers This year's event is a multi-day, multi-track, multi-platform diverse and inclusive conference for every level of knowledge. Just about every company provides cybersecurity awareness to their employees – what better way to spend your training time, then with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances: learning from expe...

Come for TechNet Cyber - Stay for DISA’s Forecast to IndustryDISA's Forecast to Industry (F2I) event will be held on Friday, October 29th at the Baltimore Convention Center. F2I provides industry partners with in-depth information about DISA's acquisition and procurement plans for fiscal years 22/23. No separate registration necessary for TechNet Cyber registrants, simply select the Forecast to Industry option during the registration pro...

Briefing Summary: Security operations centers (SOC) are the backbone of the cybersecurity industry providing defense, mitigation, and incident response against risks and attacks. However, SOCs are often criticized as ineffective, and one of the most frequently asked questions about SOC performance is “how to measure SOC effectiveness?” While mean time to resolution (MTTR) is the standard measure of effectiveness, this high-level me...

The relevance and importance of DevSecOps has grown in the past few years as agencies solidify their moves toward automating their software delivery lifecycle, especially in light of several major recent attacks that specifically target security gaps within the development process. Tune into this panel to hear from DOD experts on the importance of DevSecOps and what is in store for it in the future. Where do these panelists see the future of D...

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This month’s AI in Government featured guest speaker is Brett Vaughan, Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) AI Portfolio Manager at the US Navy! AI is proving an essential technology to enhance and accelerate modern militaries. It should come as no surprise then that the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research is looking into AI applications to enhance and optimize areas related to AI assisted human decision ma...

The Department of Defense's cloud strategy aims to transform virtually every aspect of the warfighting effort, and has resulted in a rapidly growing ecosystem of both general-purpose and fit-for-purpose clouds. Some of those efforts are unique to DOD, reflecting the scale, missions and austere operating environments of military operations, while others are readily transferrable to most any agency. All, however, hold valuable lessons for those...

The Department of Homeland Security plays an essential role in ensuring cybersecurity across all federal agencies with operational guidance, specialized security teams and broad range of services and governmentwide programs.This FCW webcast will focus on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and how this DHS hub for cyber risk management is evolving to build capacity across the executive branch.Nitin Natarajan, Deputy Dir...