The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is the nation's premier IT combat support agency trusted to connect, protect and serve. Following a realignment of agency assets, the Operations and Infrastructure Center Director, Don Means Jr., is leading his center in the effort to perfect operations, with a focus on command and control, as well as improving the customer experience. This webinar will focus on the center's efforts and the critica...

Reflecting on Cross Agency Challenges and Opportunities A Fireside Chat with Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat AFCEA Bethesda’s Engage & Connect Series brings government and industry together. To that end, we are excited to have Maria Roat, Deputy Federal CIO, join us at a fireside chat to reflect on and share observations about her distinguished career in federal service. Ms. Roat will retire from her position on March 31st after servi...

Government agencies face the same cyber threats to the integrity of their IT infrastructure as every other area of the economy, but the stakes can be even higher. Veeam Government Solutions and Pure Storage have worked together to produce a next-generation data protection and recovery methodology that helps government organizations avoid malicious activity or recover from a successful attack faster than ever imagined. With the increase in atta...

Climate change has already had a major impact across the United States. The Biden administration recently unveiled a 10-year plan to spend billions of dollars to combat destructive wildfires on roughly 50 million acres of land. Both operationally and to inform public policy, we need physical spread models and the assessment models built on them. Why? Because size matters. Conventional models treat all people as identical and fail to map areas...

Securing video distribution systems (VDS) is critical in a zero trust (ZT) world. Modern warfare concepts, such as JADC2, ABMS, project convergence and project over match are all about information dominance. Video and audio data are the virtual eyes and ears of mission critical command and control centers, combat information centers, briefing rooms and operations centers. This webinar is a must for anyone involved in securing VDS platforms. Le...

Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, is focused on strengthening protections for critical software used by government agencies. It identifies key requirements designed to better protect government systems from malicious threats. It also includes specific language related to secure software development and supply chain security. In response, NIST has published NIST SP 800-218, which provides recommendations for sof...

Welcome to the Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium 2022 (RMCS22)! The Rocky Mountain Chapter of AFCEA is honored to have you as our guest, and we hope you enjoy Colorado Springs and the entire Pikes Peak region. Our Symposium provides a national forum for industry and government to work together to help solve the challenges of cybersecurity, community cyber readiness and national defense. Our theme this year is: “Securing Partnerships an...

Easy to use and secure for large meeting rooms to small huddle spaces, video collaboration is now part of everyday workflow. Hear how all military branches and a multitude of government agencies world wide rely on Crestron to deliver mission-critical audio, video, content sharing and management for any BYOM environment, including Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Join us to discover how Crestron’s FLEX platform delivers simple, high-quality vide...

Changes to federal cybersecurity requirements are expected to continue with updates to the 2014 Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). With the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) leading policy development and oversight, it’s important for agencies to understand the actions required to keep up with today’s cybersecurity memorandums. Recent OMB directives require agencies to expand Endpoint Detection and Response (E...

The premier naval conference and exposition on the West Coast, WEST is now in its 32nd year of bringing military and industry leaders together. Co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute, WEST is the only event in which the makers of platforms and the designers of technologies can network, discuss and demonstrate their solutions in a single locale. One recurring highlight of WEST is a town hall discussion among the Chief...