Discussion Topics: Understand what the U.S. executive order means to technology leaders in the federal ecosystem How the public and private sectors can forge a stronger cybersecurity partnership Steps government leaders can take right now to address their cybersecurity concerns Governments are moving faster and with more urgency to improve security standards in light of recent actions and events. The Biden Administration unveiled a comprehensi...

As IT workloads transition to the cloud, there's a shift in how organizations develop and deliver systems and how security must be practiced. On this webcast, survey author Jim Bird will moderate a roundtable discussion with Micro Focus representatives about results from the SANS 2021 DevSecOps survey. Register today to be among the first to receive the associated whitepaper written by SANS analyst and course author Jim Bird and SANS instructo...

With the sudden advancement of myriad technological developments over the past year, brought about in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping track of critical data, operations, and product lines has been made exponentially more complicated. We’ll speak with government officials to learn about how they’re using operational technologies to monitor these sudden developments to ensure safety and security of assets in a time of great un...

Today’s headlines are filled with reports of increasingly sophisticated and disruptive cybercrime. Government agencies have become primary targets for ransomware attacks that lock up vital systems and data. A new wave of supply chain exploits presents serious threats to public sector organizations that rely on growing numbers of partners and service providers to perform their missions. And, of course, many state and local jurisdictions f...

The COVID-19 pandemic made health IT more vulnerable than ever as cyberattacks on hospitals, public health organizations and research initiatives soared. This event will highlight the ways federal health IT leaders are securing their networks and sensitive information, and also look back on cyber lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rapid shift to remote work in 2020 resulted in new security and IT priorities, and an unprecedented increase in complexity and visibility challenges. A recent survey of global IT and cybersecurity professionals looked at the impact of those changes and discovered a reported rise in IT, device, and security complexity – and widening visibility gaps. As agencies plan for employees to return to the office, either full-time or part-time,...

This briefing will cover the Big 4 nation-state threat actors, which are Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. We will discuss how these nations have evolved their offensive cyber capabilities over the last year, how they have shifted (or maintained) their targeting objectives, as well as how the 4 have affected different industries across the commercial and government sectors.

In an era when disruptive technology is altering the status quo in almost every industry, the federal government stands on the precipice of a new generation of cloud-based enterprise resource management. As federal financial, supply chain, HR, logistics and IT leaders consider how to most efficiently share and manage information and resources in the cloud across an entire agency, what security, analytics, and financing models should they consi...

Join Wickr and Carahsoft for a panel discussion as we deep dive into how the expansion of communication in the new virtual era has exposed large attack surfaces for government agencies. We'll discuss what securing agency communications looks like and why security and encryption need to be at the forefront, lessons learned from the SolarWinds breach, and best practices around Zero Trust and mitigating risk. During this live webinar, you will le...

The practice of running Adversary Emulation engagement exercises is becoming more widely adopted within modern security teams. The collaborative effort of Purple Teaming can help security professionals improve their skills as they leverage emulation tactics and detection/prevention methods to better understand how threat actors might successfully compromise hosts, networks and other enterprise services. Adversary Emulation goes well beyond tes...