ICIT Virtual Briefing | The Modern Security Battlefield While 2020 was fraught with tragic outcomes of social and economic proportions, security teams have learned many lessons on resilience and have orchestrated many technical innovations to secure a distributed workforce. An expanded attack surface, sophisticated breaches like the SolarWinds attack and a pressing need to improve operational efficiency, has reframed digital transformation pr...

Keeping systems patched and secure is one of the biggest ongoing challenges faced by federal IT professionals. Applying patches can be tedious and error prone, and extremely difficult to manage in large-scale environments. Having roots in ‘open source’, Linux offers significant security advantages to include keeping all software versions and patches up to date. This informative, educational, 30-minute webinar provides an easy-to-un...

State and local government agencies depend on accurate, timely and user-friendly data to help make informed decisions that improve citizen services and safety. With the integration of Red Hat OpenShift and Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud, agencies have access to a hybrid cloud data architecture that guarantees secure, mission-critical application delivery anywhere. Tune in on April 8th for a session addressing how CDP Private Cloud...

Adobe Flash may have reached its end-of-life on December 31, 2020 and Flash support in Adobe Connect will end on June 30, 2020, but Adobe Connect is just getting started. Learn what the end of Flash means for your Adobe Connect accounts along with strategies for the transition.Join our complimentary webinar to learn how Adobe Connect has progressively transitioned to modern Flash-free architecture, and the final steps ahead in this transformat...

Microsoft made a strategic investment in mobilizing the Windows operating system (OS) by building it to function like a mobile OS, like those made by Apple and Google. To make the most of these new capabilities, Microsoft requires customers to move to a new cloud-based management framework for their devices. This approach is called modern management. Modern management introduced numerous features and new technologies into the OS that are avail...

As projects become more complex, facilitating communication and collaboration throughout the construction lifecycle is increasingly difficult, particularly when each stakeholder is utilizing their own processes and software tools. Increased use of shared data, specifically Building Information Models (BIM), promises to be the solution that connects disparate project teams, allowing everyone to work together towards the common objective of pro...

Microsoft recommends a single Microsoft 365 tenant, but there can be some challenges with how to properly delegate administrative tasks without giving admins "global" access. Additionally, licensing can be increasingly difficult to administer if everyone has access to the same license pool. Some agencies have created scripts to help with repetitive and routine tasks, but the need to constantly maintain them, or even worse, the person who wrote...

One of the goals of modernization in government is an ability to pull data from previously siloed legacy systems and use that data to speed decision making and deliver on the agency mission. It is always a challenge to keep up with rule changes, but it is particularly difficult during an administration transition because of the volume of changes. One example that is currently being addressed is eligibility determinations for many programs, suc...

The Department of Defense has long led the way in adoption of cutting-edge technologies. Game changing and innovative 5G wireless networks are revolutionizing many aspects of the DoD mission. Smart networks are now powering robotics, holographic, and augmented reality applications for real-time asset tracking, predictive analytics, and environmental sensing among others. These test beds are bringing the DoD into the forefront of 5G, providing...

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...