Law enforcement, public safety and homeland security professionals depend more and more on information technology and a secure digital infrastructure. Consequently, the demand for strategic cyber security experts with the necessary understanding of policy and procedure is growing rapidly. According to the US CERT, the transformative nature of cybersecurity work is providing for varying career paths – establishing a workforce with differe...

The pursuit of economic growth and economic development are a staple of corporate and public sector agendas respectively. However, despite budgetary pressures that are being felt across government agencies, citizens’ service expectations continue to soar. Consider these facts: Nearly 35% of the federal workforce is eligible to retire now; 60% of the federal workforce are older than 45 years; and Only 3% of government employees are less t...

More than one-third of all cyber-crime incidents and security breaches are caused by insiders. These insiders have many motivations — financial, political, or even emotional — but the common factor is they all inappropriately access an organization’s critical-value data. While governments around the world have communicated the importance of addressing insider threats, real-world efforts have been patchy. It is easy to underst...

Budget-constrained government CIOs have worked to make computing more efficient and less expensive by reducing the size of its data center portfolio. Since the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative was first launched in 2010, efforts to close hundreds of data centers and streamline government IT operations have fallen short of the goal set by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Government officials are now looking at cutting cost...

Fueled by agile, continuous integration, delivery, development and assessment, today’s digital economy demands a new style of IT for government where agencies must act with agility, deliver with velocity, and provide visibility through the entire application life-cycle. DevOps brings together development and operations professionals early in the application delivery process, and enables them to collaborate closely and work as an integrat...

According to IDC, outdated federal IT networks are incapable of fully exploiting the extensive advantages of the mobility, cloud, social networking, and big data analytics technologies collectively. This modern infrastructure will allow agencies to develop flexible networks that can easily and cost-effectively adapt to the changing needs of federal employees, citizens, and warfighters. Agencies are holding back because of concerns that moderni...

Digital networks across the country are currently threatened by wide-scale data theft, like the recent breach of the networks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), not destruction or compromise. What is the difference between cybersecurity and data security? And, what strategies are agencies using to prevent future data loss? This webinar will hear from government and industry experts who will discuss what government needs to do now to...

The federal government is projected to spend $7.7 billion on private cloud solutions by 2017, a nearly $6 billion increase from the projected $1.7 billion spent in 2014. This webinar will discuss government's challenges and concerns when planning a cloud deployment from security, software development, managing virtualization, and load balancing. The latest trends in implementing cloud solutions including the use of open source will also be add...

Every government agency faces the need to train and enable its workforce. Doing this effectively is a challenge because so much of the expertise resides with its people rather than in structured learning courses. Knowledge needs to flow horizontally across peers; not just vertically. Yet most social knowledge transfer today gets lost in emails, instant messages or conversations around the water cooler. During this session, you’ll learn h...

The digital landscape is constantly evolving, and these changes offer agencies new ways to deliver services more cost effectively, efficiently and securely. Citizens expect government systems to work in the same modern, customer-focused way that they experience when banking, shopping or communicating. From mobile apps to smart technology, governments have the opportunity to interact with citizens in a more personalized, relevant way. Brought t...