Navigating Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) can be a challenging task for many organizations. There are over 300,000 organizations that will need to be certified starting in 2021! Starting this year, defense contracts have been released and contractors must now achieve CMMC certification via a certified and accredited 3rd-party auditor in order to be awarded a defense contract. The CMMC applies to ALL government contractors, p...

As the technology landscape evolves, products and processes are becoming faster and more accessible. But what about the partnerships to help secure our data in a continuously connected world? During this webinar, we'll discuss IBM resources and human-centric focus on best practices for implementing public and private sector partnerships to mitigate the risk of cyber threats.

As the U.S Department of Defense (DoD), Intel community and federal agencies increase multi-domain operations, the protection of mission-critical data transfer between networks of different classification levels is paramount in enabling secure collaboration between HQ, the tactical edge and with its Mission Partner Environment (MPE). Although the DoD is making great strides to improve interoperability and defensive cyber operations, without a...

Governments face mounting challenges as they strive for delivery of services efficiencies while balancing compliance requirements at speed. A Security Compass survey of federal, state and local governments on the topic of DevSecOps and Authority to Operate (ATO) shed light on the challenges—giving way to developing critical solutions. Join our panel discussion as we share further insights including navigating challenges at all levels of...

The secure access service edge (SASE) is a new security model defined by Gartner to help organizations adapt to evolving security challenges. Gartner realized that with applications moving to the cloud, the traditional approach to security needed to evolve. But how can DoD successfully deploy a SASE model and reduce mission risk? In this webinar, Zscaler's Patrick Perry will provide a high level overview of: The fundamentals of SASE How Zero T...

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...

The AFCEA Emerging Professionals in the Intelligence Community (EPIC) committee is organizing an academic outreach event on October 28, 2021 from 6 to 7:30pm EDT. This event will be a virtual panel of EPIC members answering questions submitted at registration by attending participants. Following a 30-45 minute period of answering these questions, panelists and other EPIC attendees will manage breakout rooms focused on specific schools and inte...

The rapid adoption of cloud technologies for capabilities envisioned by programs such as Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) to support machine learning, IoT and ISR provides new opportunities for defense organizations to achieve and maintain C5ISR overmatch — as long as networks can reliably deliver those benefits at the tactical network edge. Modern tactical networks must: Be deployable in reduced size, weight, and power ...

Services MAC and Polaris: Prepping, Teaming and Bidding Are you ready for the decade’s two biggest governmentwide vehicles for small businesses? Polaris and Services MAC are coming. Polaris could be the go-to vehicle for billions in IT services small business task orders, and Services MAC is likely to be the number one source of federal professional services dollars for small businesses. Whether you are SDVOSB, WOSB, HUBzone, 8(a) or jus...

While the term “zero trust" is overused in security product marketing, Zero Trust is very important to the future of our nation's cybersecurity. The Department of Defense (DoD) released its own Zero Trust architecture guidance and there are many additional relevant models available to federal customers. Last May, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) which required agencies to provide updates on their plans to implement Zero Tru...