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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Where are government agencies on their mission to accomplish M-19-21 and M-23-07? DGI polled their audience prior to the conference on eDiscovery, Records & Information Management. Over half said they have not met their objectives or simply don’t know. 40% expect to meet their objectives by June 2024 and only 6% have met them to date. This still leaves a notable gap and opportunity for agencies to reach their targets. …

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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter When polled, DGI participants said, “the biggest challenge they face in securing their cloud environment is ‘a lack of skilled staff’.” Given this and the fact that “53% of cloud workloads are hosted on public clouds,” according to Palo Alto Networks’ David Kubicki, agencies can see how “dynamic, unpredictable, and complex” cloud security has become. According to Kubicki, this comes with a push from agencies to expand to the cloud …

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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Why care about AI? DGI’s poll revealed that “60% of its audience is currently working on AI initiatives.” With case studies from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Carnegie Mellon University and NIST, a number of experts addressed the relevance of AI and how to effectively implement initiatives. Scott Beliveau with USPTO shared that his agency “looks at about a million trademark applications a year.” From his perspective, “AI helps …

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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter “In today’s world where a global event can suddenly shift, what data is needed for informed decision-making,” asked Kevin Bohan of Denodo Technologies?” He added, “three key areas that government agencies want to focus on around data management are leveraging data as an asset, modernizing infrastructure, such as integrating the cloud and protecting information.” Ray Davis of Feith Systems expanded on this when he said, “Information Governance and AI are …

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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter With the pressure for government agencies to meet the mandate on Software Supply Chain Security Guidance, it’s important to understand why it matters. Bryant Schuck with Checkmarx starts with a definition that “a software supply chain obviously draws strong parallels to the traditional supply chain.” The difference with software requires focus on securing “anything between the process and components you use to build your applications…from development to deployment.” Michael Epley …

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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter The basic definition of DevSecOps is a development process that integrates security at each stage of the software development life cycle or SDLC. As Timothy Chick from Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute said however, it’s also “a cultural thing, a collaboration. There are people, processes and tools, and a coupling of different priorities and different interests. The goal of a successful DevSecOps operation, according to Derrick Curtis with the …

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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter The biggest success factor to “cloud utilization is culture,” said Rob Leahy at NASA. Wyn Elder at Box emphasized that point when he suggested that “agency mission happens first and foremost [with] its people…they are the heart of any government agency.” Furthermore, Elder added that “employees need the right content to accomplish their mission.” Given the fact that Federal agencies have increasing challenges with content, such as “100,000+ unmanaged ‘free’ …

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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Government agencies are not quite there yet. Even so, said Arian Ravanbakhsh with NARA, “the mandate has caused a big push through…moving the goal post forward.” The new June 30, 2024 extension has not been signed yet, but NARA announced that it will continue to accept paper records from federal agencies until that time. During this Dec. 15th webinar, a panelist and number of expert speakers covered a range of …

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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter As we close out of 2022, government agencies have been part of a modernization movement, migrating to the cloud at various degrees for over 10 years. Although, “government [now] believes in the cloud…due to evidence of ROI, greater agility and access to talent”, according to Keith Nelson with OpenText, there are still a number of challenges in making that migration. Skip Jentsch with GSA put “upfront costs” at the top …

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WATCH ON DEMAND VIDEO Share this post LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Why care about CDM and Zero Trust? “Privilege used to be granted to folks in your data center…” Now, “privilege is everywhere” and “it’s not just humans either; it’s non-human entities,” said Gram Slingbaum, Federal Solutions Engineer with CyberArk. Richard Melick, Director of Mobile Threat Intelligence with Zimperium added that “In 2021, 20% of Enterprise mobile devices experienced a network attack.” And with so much work occurring outside “of the …

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