Zero Trust is an evolution of a range of past security architectural approaches and concepts; think network segmentation, least privilege, and defense. The key difference being Zero Trust brings a different mindset to how we design and build security to support the idea of starting with no implicit trust and that we assume a breach has already occurred. The Department of Defense (DOD) released a publication in the Spring of 2021 on Zero Trust...

E-commerce is the fastest-growing retail sector in the US. New firms enter the market each day, and sustained growth is expected to continue over the coming years. Nearly every state now has some form of economic nexus laws, but limited data on out-of-state businesses makes it difficult to determine who should be filing. Furthermore, resource constraints limit agencies’ ability to stand up compliance efforts to enforce relatively new req...

The past year has been stressful for government agencies and businesses alike. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered every aspect of government business, from having to quickly enable a remote workforce, to seeing an increase of cyberattacks and breaches, to the greater dependence on third party providers. Any of which on their own can be challenging and severely impact the organization. If nothing else, this period highlighted the fact that exten...

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) was enacted as part of the Modernizing Government Technology Act of 2017, with a goal of better securing sensitive Federal systems and data while utilizing taxpayer dollars as efficiently as possible. Earlier this year, the American Rescue Plan Act added $1 Billion dollars to the program. These funds can help agencies (Civilian, DoD, and the Intelligence Community) modernize systems, expand cybersecurity...

Security teams across the Department of Justice face an ever-increasing number of security incidents that often require manual investigation efforts to identify, analyze, and mitigate these threats facing their organizations daily. Join us for a presentation on how customers have reduced response and resolution time through security orchestration and automation via Splunk SOAR. During the presentation, we will discover how Splunk SOAR can prov...

BEC attacks on city, state, local governments and educational institutions is a major cyber threat hitting organizations today. Across the nation, these attacks present a significant and unique challenge for resource-strapped local governments and educational entities. The FBI reports that 51% of all Cyber losses originate with BEC. Security leaders need strategies that help mitigate these common attacks and get ahead of threat actors today -...

Join Secureworks and Carahsoft for a virtual happy hour and webinar featuring two pros, Rob Lelewski and Erin Petrey. Rob Lelewski, Director of Proactive Incident Response Services at Secureworks, will provide some best practices and proactive measures your team can take to prepare for the inevitable ransomware attack. His discussion will focus on common shortcoming that are regularly observed both in the emergencies that the Secureworks incid...

Data processing at the edge is just getting started. Edge computing extends the open hybrid cloud all the way to the data sources and end users. Red Hat's enterprise open source portfolio of edge products and NVIDIA's EGX-based systems bring the United States Postal Service (USPS) better control over the movement of sensitive data, limits service failures and reduces transmission delays. Join Red Hat experts for an informative session to: Lear...

Public sector agencies’ digital strategies were put to the test by the pandemic. With legacy and manual systems pushed to their limits by the new digital age, agency leaders were faced with the unprecedented task of scaling digital solutions which suddenly became the default channel for millions of interactions with the population. Public sector professionals stepped up to the challenge. However, as the effects of the pandemic ease, indi...

Join VMware and Carahsoft for the live viewing of episode two of Mission First, our Department of Defense (DoD) and National Security podcast series focusing on the mission, not products. During this session, Jeremiah Sanders, Co-Founder of Kessel Run and Senior Federal Strategist, VMware and Alex Barbato, Senior Engineer, VMware Tanzu will discuss: Continuous ATO and how has it evolved into Continuous Risk Management Framework The evolution o...