Roundtables

  • This program will provide a progress report on Identity & Access Management in government.

    October 25, 2016
  • Innovation and cybersecurity are in a head-on collision in the federal government. The growing use of connected devices under the moniker Internet of Things (IoT), the move to the cloud and what seems to be the ever growing expansion of mobile devices is causing government and industry alike to rethink how to be cyber secure, while also not stifling innovation at the same time.

    October 24, 2016
  • There’s no doubt about it – the federal government has gone mobile. Driven by both policy and the compelling nature of mobile computing, smartphones and tablets have become daily tools at all levels of government. No longer just for email and phone calls, in the hands of line and management employees, mobile devices also carry enterprise applications and collaboration tools.

    October 11, 2016
  • In late 2016 every eye in the political community is on the presidential change. A similar change will take place in the Pentagon – a massive upgrade of Microsoft Windows machines. Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen has mandated that four million computers be upgraded to Windows 10.

    October 05, 2016
  • Derived Credentials have become an essential way for public sector agencies to leverage their investment in smart card based authentication and bring this capability to the mobile platform in a way that makes sense. As mobility heats up all over the federal workspace it’s important that a high level of security not be sacrificed. In support of this important effort, download our Mobileiron and Entrust Solution Brief to learn how we have worked together to provide an elegant, out of the box solution to solve this critical capability requirement, This solution makes it so any government organization can use their agency issued smart card to create a mobile credential to access important agency services like email, sharepoint & websites/microsites that require PIV card to access

    October 03, 2016
  • The federal government has bought into cloud computing without a doubt. In a short seven years since the Obama administration’s cloud first policy, many agencies have quickly move past crawl to the walk stage and are ready to start running in the cloud.

    September 22, 2016
  • The federal government has been on a drive to economize on energy since Middle East oil embargoes of the 1970s. In more recent times, policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the government’s buildings and vehicles have joined efforts to reduce spending on fuel.

    For the armed services, more efficient use of fuel and greater energy self-sufficiency are matters of readiness, agility and, ultimately, the ability to prevail in war. That’s why military leaders are undertaking a broad range of energy efficiency efforts encompassing installations, ground vehicles, ships and planes.

    September 20, 2016
  • Four leading government marketing pros offer tips and insights on how to strengthen your government marketing efforts. Topics include events, budgets, brand vs. lead gen, GAIN 2016, mentoring, and more.

    August 16, 2016
  • Over the past 20 years, some would say the specific approach to cybersecurity taken by the government and industry has been shortsighted. The defense-in-depth approach is broken, according to some experts. They say it creates a false sense of security. It depends on too many point solutions at different layers of the network. In the end, it creates gaps and that is where hackers hide and eventually breach the network and take the data.

    August 15, 2016
  • Some believe federal networks seem to be in a perpetual state of disruption over the last 20 years. First agencies moved from the mainframe to the client server set-up. As soon as agencies seemed to have gotten this client-server approach down, in comes the managed services, which morphed really into cloud computing and the as-a-service approach to running networks. Now, we are in a third phase, some call it software-defined networking. Others say it’s part of the cloud evolution where the software running the network is really in charge and not the hardware.

    July 08, 2016
  • In “Meeting Government’s Mobile Mission,” Sean Frazier, chief technology evangelist for MobileIron’s Public Sector Practice, addressed three key points: mobile as the new normal, challenges and opportunities in the public sector and applications as the driver of mobility’s future.

    July 06, 2016
  • Over the past few years the federal government has become increasingly concerned about attracting and retaining its workers. To say that the government workforce is graying is an understatement, with figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that millennials make up less than a quarter of government employees. This discussion explored how advanced technology solutions in the areas of physical security, deployable solutions and cloud can be used to enhance the attraction, retention and productivity of workers.

    June 27, 2016
  • Five years after the launch of the administration’s “cloud first” policy, government chief information officers still face procurement, management and security obstacles when moving to the cloud.

    June 14, 2016