In pre-pandemic life, just 22 percent of federal employees worked remotely in 2019. Last year, by comparison, just one department, Housing and Urban Development, jumped to 90 percent in 2020. This scenario played out across all agencies. Now, with the country working to bring the pandemic to an end, it is unlikely that all employees will return to their offices. As remote work continues, cybersecurity measures are shifting to protect enterpris...

While telehealth is a necessary and beneficial solution during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond, its growing use can jeopardize the safety of sensitive patient data and privacy. Observing best practices for data collection, storage, management, and destruction is essential to collaboration, compliance, governance, and patient data privacy. Join us to explore new practices and technologies that are helping organizations use data in innovative way...

Maintaining the myriad networks throughout the Department of Defense can mean the difference in mission operations. Whether providing critical information to troops at the tip of the spear, monitoring and protecting sensitive supply chains, or any of a thousand other responsibilities, military systems require “five 9s” reliability.Challenges in this environment are compounded by malware threats, software constantly in need of patch...

The burgeoning use of artificial intelligence (AI) is spurring invention and innovation across many sectors, including: Science, where AI is accelerating discovery; Education and the development of individualized curriculum; Space through autonomous spacecraft and smart habitats; Healthcare using sensors and smart micro-systems; Smart Cities to reduce cost, enhance safety, and ensure environmental standards; and Military, intelligence and gove...

In January, the National Security Agency issued its first Cybersecurity Year in Review, detailing the agency’s progress in preventing and removing threats to U.S. systems and critical infrastructure in 2020. The emergence of COVID-19 made Intelligence Community efforts to improve cybersecurity a critical element in the nationwide effort to contain the pandemic. The widespread implementation of telework, by both the private sector and all...

The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) in the popular imagination tends to be pretty frightening – from HAL, the rogue computer in 2001, to the Terminator movie franchise. The public doesn’t realize that AI is already being used, such as powering the chatbots they use when they talk online with government agencies or their favorite vendors. And the potential exists to remake delivery of services at all levels of government. Th...

Advancing digital services is the #2 priority for states in 2021, second only to cybersecurity, according to the National Association of State CIOs annual survey of top 10 priorities. In the 2021 Technology Forecast, state CIOs listed efforts to respond to and recover from the effects of the pandemic as major drivers of their priorities. When COVID-19 subsides, buildings may reopen and employees return to the workplace, but citizens will be ac...

Advancing digital services is the #2 priority for states in 2021, second only to cybersecurity, according to the National Association of State CIOs annual survey of top 10 priorities. A central element of providing a broader range of digital services to citizens is data management. New services will provide vast new quantities of data, which will require everything from organization and storage to analytics and access control to unlock its pot...

Advancing digital services is the #2 priority for states in 2021, second only to cybersecurity, according to the National Association of State CIOs annual survey of top 10 priorities. Central to providing expanded and new digital services is service delivery. State CIOs are looking to “as-a-service” opportunities to improve internal operations, while citizen-facing services such as broadband access and affordability have become imp...

Advancing digital services is the #2 priority for states in 2021, second only to cybersecurity, according to the National Association of State CIOs annual survey of top 10 priorities. In the 2021 Technology Forecast, state CIOs listed efforts to respond to and recover from the effects of the pandemic as major drivers of their priorities. When COVID-19 subsides, buildings may reopen and employees return to the workplace, but citizens will be ac...