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Insights Revealed: Benefits and Best Practices for Effective Collaboration

Numerous government agencies are getting serious about collaboration because each sees opportunities to improve enterprise-wide information sharing and productivity, support real-time communications during crises, or reduce the money spent on large in-person meetings or conferences. Join this exclusive Webcast for an in-depth look at which online tools and techniques are most effective in enhancing greater collaboration.

Date: Jun 19, 2013

Time: 2:00PM


Push-to-Talk: How Group Messaging Can Improve Group Productivity

In this webcast you'll learn how Push-to-Talk technology improves group coordination by making it possible to instantly and simultaneously send a voice message to several people or to a pre-defined group as well as improving worker safety both by ensuring sub-second communications and by providing the ability to track employee/agent locations from one central console.

Date: Jun 25, 2013

Time: 2:00PM


Getting Beyond the Basics of Mobile Security: A Roundtable Discussion

This webcast will provide a breakdown of the unique challenges of mobile security – and offer insight into how to meet them. This roundtable discussion will feature two experts: William Corrington former chief technology officer with the Department and Interior; and Mike Zirkle, Associate Director of Public Sector Solutions & Marketing, Verizon Enterprise Solutions.

Date: Jun 26, 2013

Time: 2:00pm


Continuous Monitoring to Detect Advanced Persistent Threats

For federal agencies, cyber attacks are a fact of life. Since 2006, the number of cyber incidents reported by federal agencies has increased by 782 percent, according to the Government Accountability Office. And with the emergence of a new generation of advanced malware, zero-day exploits, and targeted advanced persistent threats (APTs), these attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and successful. Traditional security defenses are no longer effective. Organizations need an advanced, game-changing technology to enable timely detection and protection. In this webinar you will learn why Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are successful, the anatomy of actual attack scenarios and their multi-stage approach and how a new model for advanced threat detection can protect your agency.

Date: Jun 27, 2013

Time: 2:00pm


Mobile Device Management: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Join Mike McCarthy, Director of the Mission Command Complex for the Brigade Modernization Command at Fort Bliss, Texas as he offers insights on how to deploy MDM and MAM solutions that are both robust and flexible enough for the federal enterprise. For the past three years Mr. McCarthy has served as Co-Lead for the US Army's, “Connecting Soldiers to Digital Applications” Army smartphone project, putting the latest smartphone technology into the hands of soldiers on deployment as well as stateside.

Date: Jul 16, 2013

Time: 2:00pm


On Demand

Best Practices in Program Management: Harnessing the Power of Performance Metrics

In today's tight budget environment federal agencies cannot afford to let programs go off track. It is essential to identify potential problems and head them off before they become big problems. Performance management is the key.


Data Security: Moving from Security Worries to Security Solutions

Government IT execs work hard to protect their assets from outsider “cyber” attacks. But increasingly, insider threats are causing their share of headaches. Although often the result of benign and well-intentioned mistakes, agency employees can often be the purveyors of security mayhem in part due to their increased mobility, the avalanche of mobile device use, and the inexorable demand for greater connectivity and more access to data and applications. Join us for this exclusive Research Webcast for an in-depth look at these issues and the solutions used to solve them.


Big Data: How to Take it to the Next Level

In this webcast, Dr. Mark Luker, Associate Director, NITRD/NCO will present an overview of how the NITRD is working to address emerging challenges of R&D for Big Data. Further, Dr. Luker will reveal how several agencies are currently leveraging Big Data to improve their citizen service and advance their overarching missions.


Empowering Federal Employees to Work the Way they Live

A growing number of Federal agencies have adopted new technologies to empower employees to be more productive and work the way they live, while also reducing the costs and resources needed to maintain their internal systems. It’s a true win-win. Join this informative webinar to hear about the changing face of workplace productivity tools for Federal employees.


What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You: Eliminating Cyber Security Blind Spots and Optimizing Incident Response

Join Jason Mical, Vice President of Cyber Security at AccessData Group and Dale Beauchamp, Branch Manager in the Information Assurance and Cyber Security division of the TSA, as they describe how the cyber security model is evolving and discuss the capabilities that are required to overcome these detection and response obstacles.


Emerging Technology Solutions to Fight Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

This webcast will focus on best practices for leveraging advanced and predictive analytics, location-based technologies, search BI apps, mobile, cloud and big data to prevent unauthorized use of your valuable agency resources. It will highlight customer case studies of agencies that have reduced fraud, waste, and abuse in a variety of innovative and effective ways.


Cloud Migration: Benefits and Challenges

Wolf Tombe, Chief Technology Officer at the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has navigated CBP’s migration to the Cloud. In this webcast, you will learn about CBP’s journey to the Cloud, including their security requirements and other adoption challenges. Learn how Tombe and his team were able to not only save money, but also improve the IT resources.


Defending Data ... New Insights on Winning the Cyber War

You can learn more about the role of big data in cyber security in this webinar that provides new insight based on discoveries from just-released research on Big Data Analytics and Cyber Defense from the Ponemon Institute & Teradata. Dr. Larry Ponemon, Chairman & Founder of the Ponemon institute and Sam Harris, Director of Cyber Security and Enterprise Risk Management for Teradata will share results from the study and discuss how to take enterprise-wide security to the next level leveraging big data analytics.


Going Mobile: Ingredients for a Successful Mobility Strategy

The need to improve operational performance and deliver better citizen service is universal across government. To meet this need, federal agencies are embracing mobile tools and solutions that fundamentally change how they operate and interact with citizens. In this webcast, NRC CIO Darren Ash will share how the NRC crafted a forward looking mobile strategy that supports individual function areas while furthering the agency’s long-term vision.


Document and Information Security: Protecting Information in the 3rd Platform

As organizations in the Public Sector increasingly adopt the use of mobile devices, and move more towards electronic document workflows, it is vital to have a security plan that addresses device, document, user, and data security. In this Webcast, you will learn from Industry Analyst Keith Kemetz , VP of IDC’s Hardcopy Peripherals Solutions and Services, and others about current key trends and solutions for ensuring Document and Information Security, addressing topics such as BYOD, Cloud and Mobile Printing.


Continuous Monitoring: How to Get It Right

In this webcast, hear from Dr. Ron Ross, Computer Security Division, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the steps they took in planning, meeting requirements and deploying an effective continuous monitoring program. Hear from his perspective the dos and don’ts to maintain ongoing awareness of information security, vulnerabilities, and threats. Learn how NIST ensured their IT systems are effective and appropriate for the organization’s level of risk tolerance.


Transforming Agency Networks: Modernize to Meet Today’s Demands

Network infrastructure modernization is on the wish list of many agencies due to growing demand for bandwidth and improved IT service delivery. But modernization requires money – which is in short supply these days. Register for this webcast to hear about these issues through survey results sourced by public sector IT leaders and business decision makers.


Business Continuity: The Case for Cloud

This webcast will explore how federal agencies understand how to make the cloud part of their business continuity plans. Captain Shawn Hendricks, Program Manager, Naval Enterprise Networks will lead a discussion on what resources you need to consider, what standards should be in place and how to fully capitalize on faster recovery times by trusting the cloud.


Mobilize your Agency’s Workforce with Holistic Mobile Enterprise Management Solutions

Tune in for tips to help you remain focused on your agency’s mission while embracing the expanding presence of mobile applications and devices within your agency’s work environment. Learn how to define your mobility requirements and apply best practices and proven frameworks to address nearly every government mobility challenge.


The Power of One – The Cisco Unified Workspace Architectural Approach

The Cisco Unified Workspace enables government organizations to transform how they communicate and collaborate by taking a strategic architectural approach—an approach that provides the flexibility and scalability to adapt as priorities evolve.


How to Implement, Secure, and Manage Mobility in Federal Agencies

Attend this webinar to learn how to how to implement access and policy management solutions that address these concerns to connect any user on any device from any location to applications, wherever they reside.


A Closer Look at How FEDRAMP Certification Assures Cloud Security

This webcast will take a closer look at FedRAMP’s security controls and process. In this webcast, Dave McClure, Associate Administrator, Citizen Services and Innovative Technology, General Services Administration, will lead a dynamic discussion about the FedRAMP program as well as what the security standards really mean to agencies cloud investment.


Disaster Recovery/COOP: How to Make the Best of a Worst-Case Scenario

Disaster recovery and continuity of operations planning have never been more important. The complexity of the federal IT enterprise – and its essential role in government operations –requires agencies to ensure that they have the strategy and technologies they need to respond to unanticipated disruptions, whether natural or man-made. This webcast will provide insight into the latest thinking about disaster recovery and COOP, both in terms of the strategy and the technology.


Exclusive Research Webcast: Methods and Insights into Managing Mobile Securely

Mobile devices like smart phones and tablets are increasingly vital to the job success of Federal agency employees.Federal IT and business decision-makers worry about threats to their information security infrastructures that often accompany mobile device use. Join us as we reveal the findings of this recent exclusive research report on mobile security and address the question, “How can Federal agencies properly architect a secure mobile environment that protects both users and the agency network? “