The Department of Veterans Affairs has a huge mandate – to provide healthcare, benefits, and services to support the nation’s nearly 20 million veterans. In these extremely trying times, VA has met the health crisis with a remarkable expansion of IT-driven patient care capabilities, thanks to modernization of key underlying service architectures. VA innovated to outpace service demand during the coronavirus pandemic and as a result...

Cyber Defenders Assemble: AI, FedRAMP, TIC, Zero Trust Federal IT’s mightiest cyber avengers must assemble to defend the cloud, protect IoT and endpoints, secure data from internal and external threats, and shield against advancing arch-nemesis. To defeat the next age of cyber supervillains, agencies need to establish new security functions and implement innovative programs to Hulk smash the threats lingering outside – and within ...

While national elections dominate the political playing field and America revs up its defense against COVID-19, cyber attackers continue to plot against government agencies. In this environment, our CDM and cybersecurity heroes work hard to thwart malicious threats in real time and build lasting cyber resiliency. On December 3, join MeriTalk for the third iteration of the CDM Central Conference, where we’ll discuss not just CDM, but top...

Federal agencies urgently need to reskill employees in new technologies – to accelerate modernization efforts, strengthen the workforce, and make the most of data to advance the mission and service delivery. How can Federal agencies rise to the challenge of reskilling rapidly and efficiently at scale – while re-imagining work and government services in the midst of a pandemic? On Tuesday, December 1 at 1:30 p.m. ET, join MeriTalk,...

The dark web has long provided a safe haven for cybercriminals to plot illicit activities, often with huge implications on government. Forward-thinking agencies must investigate threats and emerging adversaries on their own turf. But analysts face extensive challenges – data overload, analysis paralysis, communication breakdown, and dead ends on the closed web – to name a few. And while priorities have shifted since the beginning o...

Moving an entire network to the cloud is challenging enough without worrying about re-architecting applications and workloads. On milCloud® 2.0, we built a native on-demand VMware environment to provide mission partners the power to accelerate their cloud migrations without conversion. Using this new technology, milCloud® 2.0 mission partners can empower digital workspaces, modernize their data centers, integrate clouds, and transform...

95% of enterprises use Active Directory to manage identities, making it both a great tool, and one of the most attractive targets for hackers. With remote work surging in 2020, new vulnerabilities in Federal IT environments are emerging. Add to that insider threat and mismanaged access controls, and you have a roadmap, directing bad actors to sensitive data. Perimeter security is no longer enough to protect government agencies’ highly dy...

With the primary missions of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, the Department of Health and Human Services bore the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. Its component agencies – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – live on the front lines of public...

Join GDIT and our partners at this half-day virtual event where we will focus on bringing together different perspectives to drive innovation, build inclusion and grow our networks in diverse and unique ways. Our third annual Women + Tech, the signature event of GDIT’s ForWard Employee Resource Group, is designed to give women the actionable tools, knowledge and networking skills needed to grow their careers. It is through bringing our w...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to Covid-19 concerns. New Dates: October 20, 2020 milCloud® 2.0 mission partners are driving toward outcomes that matter – and data accessibility is a critical factor in mission success. On milCloud® 2.0, they have access to a data-centric architecture that supports all aspects of data, no matter the volume, velocity, variety, or veracity. On Tuesd...