Equipping field personnel with smartphones can increase situational awareness, expand capabilities, and enhance community engagement. Smartphones can even serve as effective body-worn cameras and deliver a level of utility that far exceeds single-purpose devices. Chief Todd Lemoine, Kimberling City Police Department, Missouri, decided to use the compact Samsung Z Flip smartphone paired with Visual Labs software to equip his officers with a fea...

The federal government continues to encourage agencies to move to the cloud. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in June published Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture v.2 (TRA), which strengthens its guidance to meet cybersecurity standards laid out in Executive Order 14028, "Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity." The TRA includes an introduction to the concept of “cloud security posture manageme...

The cybersecurity landscape for the U.S. government is continuously evolving. The U.S. government is embracing DevSecOps and paving the way for digital transformation. Free and readily available open source components allow federal agencies to save time and money and in many cases improve quality empowering innovation velocity. In today’s world, understanding what’s in your open source software supply chain is critical to national...

With drastically rising energy costs, you can’t afford to ignore the energy that powers your data center. At Pure, we’re making a data-driven, efficient, and sustainable future a reality, with data storage that uses less energy, less space and lasts longer. Taking a stand on energy efficiency can improve your company’s reputation, protect your business against unpredictable energy markets, improve productivity and save money....

The federal workplace has seen unprecedented change since the pandemic started challenging agencies to manage through that change quickly and drive agency missions. During this exclusive webinar, moderator Jason Miller will discuss management strategies driving workplace evolution with agency and industry leaders. Learning objectives: The workplace evolution Managing culture change Innovation use cases

AFFIRM sustaining partners are the foundation of our work, contributing to AFFIRM’s scholarship program, supporting AFFIRM’s scholarships to STEM students, and helping deliver educational forums to our government members. In appreciation of these philanthropic efforts by our Sustaining Partners companies, AFFIRM is hosting a networking event to meet the 2022-2023 government leadership, engage with invited Federal CIOs, and meet you...

Remote work has upended security. Sadly, in reaction, security vendors have developed two substandard solutions: VPN and ZTNA. VPN server ports must be open to the internet and anyone on the internet can try to hack it. ZTNA suffers degraded performance while obfuscating identity creating a huge security blindspot. In this webinar, learn about Zero Networks’ ZNConnect which combines the best aspects of VPN and ZTNA while eliminating thei...

IT teams are under increasing pressure as the shift to remote work, an evolving cybersecurity landscape, and higher data volumes present new challenges that make their environments less secure. Making things even more complicated for IT professionals are the array of threats they are required to deal with, whether that be careless employees, attackers, or malicious insiders. IT professionals looking to mitigate and prevent these vulnerabilitie...

Security teams are intensely focused on protecting their organizations, often leading to friction with developers who need to build and produce applications quickly. How can organizations speed up product releases and shorten innovation cycles while also improving security and working in tandem with development? To understand how successful organizations do this, we have partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), an independent IT analysi...

Military vehicle modernization has been identified as a key priority area for modernizing capabilities for the warfighter, and military vehicle modernization is a key to unlocking situational awareness, warfighter protection and lethality, and maneuverability on the battlefield. As we face a diverse array of threats in an era of strategic competition, the US military will need systems that promote operations across all domains, including the c...