With the overwhelming growth of digital information, the scope of electronic records management has expanded exponentially and is an increasingly critical issue for government agencies, particularly as it relates to being able to provide secure storage, access, and retrieval of this information. The Administration's August 2012 release of the Managing Government Records Directive creates a robust records management framework that complies with...

Cloud Platforms are transforming how Enterprises consume and orchestrate IT-enabled processes and services. The enterprise of the future will increasingly consume and aggregate a complex array of services from internal and external providers. This requires the CIO to assume the role of a Cloud Services Broker with the ability to orchestrate business processes, have an effective security stack for deep visibility and create a network fabric to...

There are plenty of changes underway in how the federal government operates and manages technology for improving service, including the Administration challenging government agencies to focus on effective ways to foster citizen engagement. And the Government Customer Service Improvement Act requires agencies to improve service standards, investigate emerging technologies, incorporate industry best practices, and reduce websites with the overal...

Background The Government Customer Service Improvement Act currently in Congress and Executive Order 13571 already in effect are among the most recent in a long succession of laws and directives intended to assure quality where citizens with needs touch government. While there has never been more attention focused on the effectiveness of our services, there has also never been a more challenging environment for delivering them. Agencies and or...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are placing increased emphasis on implementing an effective "information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) program" for all government and contractor run IT systems. This will be accomplished by DHS and OMB increasing the annual FISMA reporting requirements and NIST issuing NIST Special Publications (SP): I...

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone, and much of it is unstructured. It's not just the amount of data that presents challenges; the types of data being collected are changing and coming from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records o...

Cloud-based services are now included in federal technology plans, and cloud-adoption within the government is moving forward. Also moving forward is The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative which calls for reducing the number of data centers by 39% by 2015. Government agencies are required to make available a current list of planned and completed data center closures and consolidations each quarter, in accordance with an updated sched...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are placing increased emphasis on implementing an effective "information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) program" for all government and contractor run IT systems. This will be accomplished by DHS and OMB increasing the annual FISMA reporting requirements and NIST issuing NIST Special Publications (SP). T...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some major advances in improving the future of government information system security. How do you leverage all of these advances to successfully meet your 2012 FISMA requirements? This 2-day course explains the specifics of these advances and provides strategies for leveraging them into meeting your individual and enterprise FISMA resp...

Data security threats continue to increase in number and sophistication. The growing use of collaborative technologies – from mobile devices and social media to virtualization and cloud computing – will continue to be one of the most significant factors impacting the security landscape. For these reasons, the federal government has increased efforts to minimize and prevent cyber security attacks – including updating FISMA rul...