In today’s environment; state and local governments, as well as higher education institutions, have an urgent focus on cybersecurity, digital modernization, and delivering services online to the citizens and communities they serve. Cybersecurity is consistently ranked as a primary concern for state and local governments. This panel will examine the current challenges, recent successes and lessons learned within the state and local cybers...

WELCOME TO INTERFACE VIRTUAL Omaha 2021! IT Infrastructure is constantly changing, bringing more new challenges with it every day. From ransomware and the latest security threats to needs for increased bandwidth and storage, it’s nearly impossible to keep up to date. Our conference is designed to help. We’ve assembled a combination of Best-in-Breed hardware and software solutions, along with local experts and organizations, to help...

As part of its risk mitigation strategy, the Cybersecurity Executive Order issued by the White House in May moves Zero Trust architecture to the center of cyber hygiene policy for the federal government. Zero Trust can be summarized easily: Trust nothing, suspect everything, authenticate 100%. The Executive Order includes directives to CISA and GSA to develop a cloud security strategy and provide guidance to agencies for implementation.Address...

As the White House’s recent 30-nation summit on the subject made clear, ransomware is “an escalating global security threat” that effects organizations in all sectors. State and local governments have been hit especially hard, however, and can’t wait for international efforts to crack down on the bad actors.Today’s defenses must continue to be strengthened, and public-sector organizations must design their data sy...

In our DHG Fundamentals webinar on November 8th, DHG’s Cheryl Ritondale and Jill Pettibone discuss the fundamental elements of the Contractor Purchasing System Review, aka the CPSR. In this episode of DHG’s Issues in Focus, Bill Walter will moderate a discussion with Jill and Cheryl as they talk about their experience with CPSRs and answer questions from you and other members of the audience regarding such topics as: How can I get...

Since 1999, Data Connectors has facilitated the collaboration between cybersecurity professionals and solution providers. Today, the community is comprised of over 650,000 members and 200 active vendor partners. Members enjoy informative education from industry luminaries, innovative solution providers and government agencies such as the FBI, InfraGard, US Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security. Data Connectors brings live conf...

The time of Cloud First in the federal government has come and gone. And now after several years of taking a Cloud Smart approach, it appears the federal government is embarking on the journey to Agile First, supported by hybrid cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps thinking and Zero Trust security. Join the top decision-makers from government and tech at the 2021 Cloud Together Summit as they explore the evolution of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud mo...

"How to prevent and detect corporate fraud!!" Under COSO 2013, Principle 8: "The organization considers the potential for fraud in assessing risks to the achievement of objectives". Corporate fraud is more prevalent today than ever before. Layoffs, pressures, incentives, anonymity, computerization, and lack of privacy are all contributing factors. This CPE event is focused on presenting the internal controls to fraud prevention and detection....

Do you understand PCAOB Auditing Standard 2315: Audit Sampling? Audit sampling is the application of an audit procedure to less than 100 percent of the items within an account balance or class of transactions for the purpose of evaluating some characteristic of the balance or class. PCAOB Audit Standard 2315: Audit Sampling provides an overview of the guidance for planning, performing, and evaluating audit samples. The purpose of audit samplin...

Security teams must know what to trust and what not to trust at all times to effectively protect machine identities in dynamic environments. As a result, smart policy enforcement must be automated and embedded into the tools used by application development teams. By shifting machine identity processes left into the pre-production phase and hooking directly into automated DevOps workflows, security teams can regain control over X.509 certificat...