In the last several months we have monitored an apparent surge in targeted attacks against government agencies. Cybercriminals have shifted the way they target agencies, abandoning large-scale, generalized attacks in favor of more targeted, dynamic techniques with bigger payoffs, including spear-phishing and “whaling”. Because targeted cybercrime is so profitable, perpetrators are highly motivated to find new ways to gather sensiti...

Here’s your chance to hear the contract facts from someone in your own agency! Shantelle Coleman Branch Manager, DHS – Office of the CIO, will be discussing how you can quickly plan, procure, and deploy your agency’s virtualization and cloud solutions through the recently established DHS | VMware BPA (contract # HSHQDC-11-A-00041). Join us as we reveal how DHS’ Strategic Sourcing’s Enterprise Software Solutions ca...

Whether your organization is moving towards data consolidation or maintaining all data in a federated environment, a data management framework must be put in place to enable information sharing and collaboration. Please join us to learn more about the Boeing Twister Data Framework, a leading data integration platform for rapid ETL processing and multi domain, federated queries on almost any type of data.Customer uses for Twister Data Framework...

In every organization there exists a somewhat buried but very dangerous loophole: the presence of local administrator accounts. Local administrator accounts are often times created directly by users and are hidden from the IT manager’s standard tracked list of administrative accounts managed by Active Directory. These accounts can be used by malware to install malicious software on local computers through the administrator account. Furth...

Please join the National Capital IT Service Management Forum for our Holiday meeting, which will be held at Mount Vernon and features presentations from George Hawkins, DC Water's General Manager, and their CIO, Omer Siddiqui. Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Siddiqui will discuss their construction of a solid foundation of IT fundamentals and establishment of a system of Enterprise governance that not only enables IT to work at strategic levels of the bus...

The NHCAA Institute for Health Care Fraud Prevention's Annual Training Conference is NHCAA's premiere annual event, recognized industry-wide as the nation's leading health care anti-fraud forum. Become one of the 1,200 attendees each year who attend the Annual Training Conference for the latest on health care fraud schemes and solutions. This year's Conference theme embodies the changing landscape of health care fraud in a post-reform environm...

This presentation provides an overview of initiatives that must be directed at addressing the key issues, as well as SPE’s engagement in facilitating the industry dialogue on global exchange of knowledge. The balance between the global supply and demand for crude oil is becoming progressively tighter, increasingly requiring our industry to face new and unique challenges. Our industry of tomorrow will have to address the demands of operat...

Please join us on Friday, October 28, 2011 for a review of the ISO/IEC 20000 Certification process and a review of the 2011 updates. TOPIC1: US Army Service Desk Marches to ISO/IEC 20000 Certification. The October program focuses on ISO/IEC 20000. Ms. Bouslog, of the US Army, will speak about the steps they took to get ISO/IEC 20000 registered in 18 months; including the planning, scope, team construction and build-out of the Service Managemen...

Delivering the right information, when they need it, and where they want it Traditional knowledge management systems used centralized tools to create and store information and then deliver it from a fixed portal to users on desktop systems.In the increased ops tempo of today's net-centric battle environment, those technologies and methodologies aren’t able to fully support the information needs of the agile warfighter.To fuel today...

Look around you at successful professionals in both the public and private sectors, you will find that a very high number of them use the principles they learned in Strictly Business: The Dale Carnegie Immersion Seminar to power their careers. Now you can acquire the same skills and attitudes they use to achieve amazing results. Attend the Strictly Business: The Dale Carnegie Immersion Seminar and prepare yourself to join the ranks of the worl...