The Florida IT Leadership Forum is the premier event for senior level technology leaders and upcoming leaders. The purpose of this invitation-only event is to foster discussion and dialogue on what it means to be a successful IT executive in the public sector and to provide tools and strategies to assist current and emerging leaders. This event is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for government and industry to collaborate and address the most impor...

Information security teams are responsible for detecting, analyzing and defending against malign influence and outside interference from foreign bad actors. But most of their current analytic frameworks are either oversimplified or overcomplicated. To keep up with the evolving threat of influence operations, security teams must monitor emerging tactics and develop effective countermeasures. The Diamond Model for Influence Operations is a meth...

When governments and their constituents develop their community’s sustainability goals, they focus on green solutions to conserve energy and curb carbon emissions. Digital modernization efforts provide paths for agencies to achieve those same sustainability outcomes while also improving efficiency, service delivery and providing the platform to ensure the community continues on its evolution to sustainment. It’s true: The same too...

Government Technology's passion is promoting best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector – more important than ever in challenging times like these. Please join us for a powerful series of sessions that provide inspiration, participation, education, and thought-provocation!

Successful state and local government organizations understand the best road to IT modernization starts with cloud adoption. They’ve reinvented themselves as digital enterprises built on modern applications and multiple clouds. But as the pace picks up, skills gaps within the cloud workforce are increasing. This issue is top of mind for government IT leaders. That’s why both Cloud Services and Workforce Management have been on NAS...

The demand for integrated, easy-to-access government services has never been higher. While state and local governments have strived to meet this growing demand, agency silos continue to make the goal of a common and intuitive digital government experience difficult to achieve. State and local CIOs can help their organizations overcome service delivery limitations through cloud-based enterprise platforms. An enterprise approach standardizes th...

The way students learn has changed forever, and with that comes new opportunities for different learning styles and goals. Choosing the Cloud Learning Platform empowers students to engage with an evolutionary online learning experience that cuts through unnecessary fees and unrelated courses. This model offers bachelor’s degrees and certification programs by getting straight to the point. Students have access to the benefits of a tradit...

Moving to the cloud is a vital part of becoming an agile, modern, digital organization. But cloud doesn’t just improve efficiencies and enable smarter hybrid work environments – it’s also a key part of improving data security. With the rise of ransomware and other cyber threats, state and local government agencies are working hard to strengthen their security and data protection strategies. Cloud platforms offer a higher lev...

To keep pace with today’s dynamic and increasingly sophisticated cyber threat environment, State and Local governments must take decisive steps to modernize their approach to cybersecurity, adopting security best practices. The federal government has launched a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity grant program specifically for state, local, and territorial governments across the country. On November 1 at 11 a.m. Pacific/2 p.m. Eastern., joi...

With government and education organizations tasked with transforming their IT infrastructure quickly and securely, many are leveraging multiple cloud computing platforms. For most agencies, this means they must replace legacy systems with systems suitable for managing multiple cloud application workloads. A cloud management solution can help agencies to overcome multi-cloud complexity. IT teams can get a holistic overview of every system on a...