For more than 10 years, the Internet Storm Center has been providing free analysis and warning to our community. SANSFIRE 2016 is our annual "ISC Powered" event! Evening talks tap into the expertise behind our daily postings, podcasts, and data collection efforts focusing on current trends and actual relevant threats. The strength of the Internet Storm Center is its group of handlers, who are network security practitioners tasked with securing...

Human Factors/Usability testing is now a requirement. Human Factors/Usability testing is good business and can be easily integrated into product design/development. Human Factors is at the essence of the UseFMEA and hence instrumental in being able to reduce the probability of risk, and even the severity of risk. The key to integrating Human Factors is to understand the activities involved throughout the product development cycle and the corre...

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, and will continue to place signific...

Overview: On January 20, 2017 there will be a new President of the United States, but beneath the surface the transition period really has already begun. The last year of a President’s term poses both great dangers and opportunities for career civil servants, and the higher rank of those civil servants, the greater are both the opportunities and the risks. As outgoing political appointees focus intensely on both getting a new job outsid...

FedScoop's 6th Annual MobileGov Summit will bring together government & industry IT leaders to share current issues, trends and best practices on how to create the next generation mobile government workforce. Included in this discussion will be in-depth dialogue on mobility trends such as mobile security, civic engagement, open data innovation, applications, the mobile workforce and more. May 24, 2016 / 7:30 a.m. — 2:00 p.m.The Newse...

Focus on December 2016 OMB/NARA eMail Retention Deadline Overview: With the current headlines regarding government email retention and e-discovery, it is important to understand how the upcoming deadlines will impact your agency. This one-day Potomac Forum Workshop will focus on the activities mandated by the NARA/OMB Records Management Directive. Key executives from NARA and government agencies will discuss the directive and its implementatio...

Washington D.C. is one of the areas hardest hit by HIV in the U.S., with an epidemic on par with some developing nations. In D.C., approximately 2.7% of the population is living with HIV (>1% is considered a ‘generalized epidemic’), and D.C. has the highest AIDS diagnosis rate of any state in the U.S. The Council of the District of Columbia has identified medical provider education as a critical need to help address HIV, and has...

LEARN WHAT MANAGERS & PRACTITIONERS REALLY NEEDTO KNOW ABOUT PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS & DATA MINING Get up to speed in data mining faster and more effectively than with any other training program available. Leverage highly valuable and impactful prospective insight from within your existing data through an intensive course series with over 20 years of innovation.If you want to learn what really works in predictive modeling and why you shou...

Today's world of dizzying information often leaves officials and analysts scrambling for ways to better understand how to integrate data sources. Mission critical information resides and is constantly updated in many disparate data silos, which can make information discovery and sharing a nightmare. Join government and industry leaders at the Data Innovation Summit for a candid discussion on how to bring together your organization's data to di...

Annual CPIC Conference ​Each year the Federal CPIC Forum co-sponsors a two-day educational conference in Washington, D.C. called the CPIC Conference. The event allows the CPIC community to come together, share ideas, and learn from each other. It is also the largest CPIC Networking event in the area. Attending the two days of the conference allows certified professionals to gain 16 Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) for continuing educati...