A good portion of the annual Federal IT spend is allocated to keep legacy systems functioning, draining precious funds away from modernizing systems and capabilities. Costs to maintain these end-of-life systems continue to grow as they age, leaving systems increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats. In 2017, the trend will be to retire expensive legacy IT systems and modernize information technology systems so agencies can (1) more easily achiev...

OMB, DHS, Department of Defense (DoD), Committee of National Security Systems (CNSS), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made major advances in improving the security of Federal information technology (IT) systems. They have created new standards, processes, and solutions that are streamlining and automating security and moving us closer to the goal of total near-real-time security awareness. At the end of this...

Cloud Computing continues to grow in importance in the public sector. Agency personnel responsible for developing and implementing cloud-based solutions -- for implementing data center consolidation and other technology efficiencies -- continue to look for opportunities to learn about the best technologies, configurations, service and deployment models and appropriate mix of cloud services -- based on their government agency requirements. Digi...

During this online session, Mark Patrick, Chief, Information Management Division, Joint Staff Secretariat, will discuss records management as a subset of a holistic approach to managing all of an organization’s data. Whether electronic, paper, or resident in the minds of its employees, an organization’s business information must be instantaneously accessible so senior leaders can make data-driven decisions at the speed their jobs r...

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last four years alone, and much of it is unstructured. It's not just the amount of data that presents challenges; the types of data being collected are changing and coming from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records...

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), provides standardization on security assessment and authorization. It also offers continuous monitoring for cloud products and services and helps government agencies cut costs, build confidence in security, and speed adoption of cloud technologies. Now, agencies and organizations can create and join meetings from computers or mobile devices, invite participants to share content i...

Every year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are raising the FISMA requirements to achieve the ultimate goal of “Near-Real-Time System Security Awareness” and “Ongoing Authorization.” Additionally, they are making available automated security solutions to improve our protection and security awareness for our systems. How do you project, plan and program for these requir...

About the Event 930gov is the end-of-year learning exchange for Government IT, Management, and Acquisition professionals. This free, one-day, multi-track conference is where government technical communities gather to: Benefit from over 20 sessions for five technical communities Finalize your year-end strategic buying decisions Learn better ways to network and hear what’s new Tap Into Five Government Communities The power of 930gov is tha...

As a follow-up to Digital Government Institute’s popular flagship Cyber Security Conference held in May, government IT security professionals will once again gather in August to network and continue the dialog about today's cyber threats. The Cyber & IT Security Conference is co-located with the 4th annual 930gov Conference, Tradeshow & Training Symposium. 930gov is a fiscal year-end strategy exchange bringing together Government...

Digital Government Institute is proud to announce the DevOps for Government Conference @930gov, to be held this August at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The term "DevOps" continues to increase in importance with the public sector. Much of this importance is related to the need to migrate applications to cloud-based solutions. But what is DevOps? Why is it important? How is it impacting the public sector? DevOps has been defined as...