Forced by the pandemic and remote work requirements, agencies at all levels of governments made a pivot to digital services quickly in 2020. Now, many organizations are pausing to evaluate their progress so far and create a strategic plan to target new opportunities, evaluate customer expectations and experience, and address workforce training needed in the new environment. As part of this digital re-evaluation, agencies will need to get buy-i...

Does your bank have the right level of maturity for your Cybersecurity Risk Management activities compared to the inherent risk levels? The FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) is a diagnostic testing tool that helps internal auditors identify a bank's level of inherent risk and determine the maturity level of their cybersecurity programs. This training course looks at the way cybersecurity inherent risks can vary significantly based on t...

The Federal Mobility Group (FMG), in partnership with ATARC, is holding the fourth annual 5G Government Symposium to drive greater awareness of fifth generation (5G) technologies, highlight innovative use cases and showcase current deployments. This event will demonstrate the dynamic opportunities surrounding 5G and the challenges in realizing them. Attendees will learn more about 5G-related applications helping government and industry meet th...

Digital workers amplify human potential, and digital and human workers working in collaboration amplify your organization’s potential. While there is some discomfort with digital workers, digital workers are improving human worker’s wellbeing by taking over tasks allowing for re-skilling employees. A recent study indicates that work-life balance is a key driver for SOC analyst burnout. Implementing digital workers may help alleviat...

AI in Government is hosting guest speaker Kevin Mills, Head Global Government Partnerships at Coursera presenting ‘What it Really Takes to Get AI Skills: Making AI and Data Knowledge a Reality in Government’ on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 from 12 PM - 1 PM ET! As organizations in both the public and private sectors are grappling with the digital skills gap within their workforces, employee development has become an important differenti...

The recent executive order and Office of Management and Budget memorandum has made it clear that we need to be heading towards a zero-trust architecture. But when we examine the cultural shift required to reach that goal, we may be moving forward but we’re really moving back to the future. Security used to be straightforward. You could only access what you needed to know, when you needed to know it. This was true whether it was a locked...

When the pandemic drove millions of government employees out of their offices and into remote work two years ago, the need to overhaul legacy identity and access management (IAM) processes became apparent. President Biden’s Executive Order and National Security Memorandum on cybersecurity pushed this further by embedding Zero Trust architecture at their core, and January’s memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget (M-22-0...

Everyone has seen media reports that Russian soldiers are using personal cellphones, rather than encrypted communications, because they made the mistake of destroying 4G and 5G towers. In military terms, they find themselves operating in a “denied environment,” because they accidentally rendered their comms network inoperable.All soldiers in a combat situation are operating at the “tactical edge,” where things like limi...

The Balanced Scorecard Professional Certification Program provides participants with the tools they need to build, implement, and sustain a balanced scorecard planning and management system in their organization. Created by the Balanced Scorecard Institute and offered in association with the George Washington University College of Professional Studies, the certification program is fully consistent with basic balanced scorecard concepts and ter...

In recent years, public sector organizations have reinvented themselves as digital enterprises built on modern applications and multiple clouds. As a result, constituents and end users have benefited from faster, more reliable services and tools. But as an organization’s technology shifts, so should its processes and workforce – for both IT and line of business. A true multi-cloud strategy requires a comprehensive, all-hands-on-de...