AFFIRM sustaining partners are the foundation of our work, contributing to AFFIRM’s scholarship program, supporting AFFIRM’s scholarships to STEM students, and helping deliver educational forums to our government members. In appreciation of these philanthropic efforts by our Sustaining Partners companies, AFFIRM is hosting a networking event to meet the 2022-2023 government leadership, engage with invited Federal CIOs, and meet you...

Remote work has upended security. Sadly, in reaction, security vendors have developed two substandard solutions: VPN and ZTNA. VPN server ports must be open to the internet and anyone on the internet can try to hack it. ZTNA suffers degraded performance while obfuscating identity creating a huge security blindspot. In this webinar, learn about Zero Networks’ ZNConnect which combines the best aspects of VPN and ZTNA while eliminating thei...

IT teams are under increasing pressure as the shift to remote work, an evolving cybersecurity landscape, and higher data volumes present new challenges that make their environments less secure. Making things even more complicated for IT professionals are the array of threats they are required to deal with, whether that be careless employees, attackers, or malicious insiders. IT professionals looking to mitigate and prevent these vulnerabilitie...

Security teams are intensely focused on protecting their organizations, often leading to friction with developers who need to build and produce applications quickly. How can organizations speed up product releases and shorten innovation cycles while also improving security and working in tandem with development? To understand how successful organizations do this, we have partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), an independent IT analysi...

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!

Cutting Through Complexity to Deliver Clarity for Actionable Insights Public sector data professionals have tremendous influence in shaping an equitable society. Whether this means properly contextualizing public health statistics, analyzing demographic data, or identifying economic disparities, the power of data is revolutionary. If, however, the public sector operates without coordination, meaningful progress can be challenging. How can publ...

As the government moves increasingly towards digital infrastructure, geopolitical tensions rise, and individuals access more endpoints from more locations than ever before, a strong cyber posture must be embedded in everything agencies do. Policy guidance such as the cyber executive order, NIST’s updated security risk framework, and the Cyberspace Solarium’s recommendations offer strategic direction while tactical playbooks such as...

Every leader across the organization needs to be able to tell a clear, impactful story to achieve success. Still, you and your intended audience can significantly change how that story is told. Join this complimentary webinar, the third in a three-part series, as a panel of Gartner experts discuss and share their experiences on the stories that achieve success for executives and leaders, including in finance, IT, sales and human resources. Thi...

Who Should Attend: All federal users including contracting officers, program office officials, managers, and executive staff are invited to participate in these complimentary webinars to learn how Alliant 2 can support their agency IT project initiatives. Warranted contracting officers must complete this training before requesting a Delegation of Procurement Authority (DPA), which will authorize them to issue orders against Alliant 2. This web...

Let’s go back, way back to 2013 when AV was AV, whitelisting was whitelisting, and EDR ads were taking over airport terminals. Ah, the good old days. News Flash! Dr. Emmett Brown just showed up and he’s got urgent news from the future. No matter how good your incident response capabilities are, they cannot stand on their own (sort of like Biff, who was nothing without his buddies). To be effective, incident response (IR) must be pa...