Government Technology

Dr. Sasi Pillay, the CTO of NASA, will discuss how NASA is using big data from their thousands of missions they run every year as well as how big data has impacted their data center infrastructure.

Vulnerabilities in software put at risk the Nation’s critical infrastructure. The risk is compounded by software size and complexity, the use of software produced by unvetted suppliers, and the interdependence of software systems. Software assurance deals with the root of the problem by improving software security.

There are key pressures driving IT today: budget, security threats, consumerization of IT, end-user needs and expectations. In response, IT is turning to virtualization to relieve these pressures but which is the best solution?

Join this webinar to learn which technology: VDI, RDS or both that you should turn to for help. This presentation will cover use cases to help determine best fit, how the addition of the PCoIP protocol to RDS can improve performance, and a first hand account of how and why Gypsum Management and Supply, a national distributor of construction supplies, implemented a desktop virtualization solution replacing aging PCs.

About the Presenter:
Mike Fodor is a customer-focused product management professional with over 20 years of experience in technology, six of which have spent in the desktop virtualization space. Mike began his career in Southern California as a technology manager for Walt Disney Feature Animation.  He has spent more than a decade in Silicon Valley, holding management posts at NetIQ, Peoplesoft and Pano Logic before joining Teradici.

Creating your IT strategy with a combination of public and private cloud services can improve the efficiency and reduce costs of your infrastructure. Join Keith Trippie, Executive Director for Enterprise System Development Office for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as he explains:

- The DHS's public and private cloud services
- Data security in their cloud
- The benefits they've seen
- Challenges and lessons learned

October 13, 2011 saw the release of the Securities and Exchange Commission's guidance on the reporting of material cyber security breaches. Consistent with regulations which address financial reporting, this guidance calls for publicly-traded companies to disclose breach information to current and prospective investors. Such disclosure may include discussion of service providers associated with the event.

This session will summarize the disclosure guidance and discuss its implications to both the business and the incident response team. A collaboration model will be discussed wherein a business representative can work with the IR team to evaluate incident materiality, allowing the business to address this guidance efficiently. The implications of of the Dodd-Frank Act in light on this guidance will also be discussed.

As an ITSM professional with over 30 years experience in IT, Mike will discuss the importance of collaboration and coordination among all work groups in the creation of a Service Catalog and share the challenges he faced as a Process Owner.

In this session, Mike will cover:

- Why management support is essential
- The process of establishing an effective team
- How to utilize project management principles
- Defining services: Taking the time needed to do it right
- How a maturity model was used in his process
- Tool selection: Consider all options
- How to keep the momentum going

Virtualization provides the opportunity for organizations to utilize existing resources to create new and innovative ways to achieve higher availability, better reliability and an overall better user experience -- all while not breaking the bank. In this webinar, you will learn how Alex Musicante, System Security Architect, leveraged virtualization to improve the City of Pittsburgh's infrastructure, and explore his thoughts on the what the desktop market can and will bring in the future.

Social engineering is the art of creating social illusions that result in the sharing of sensitive information or physical access to secured areas. This webinar will review the psychological framework that informs a social engineer's reconnaissance, pretext formulation, and social exploit activities. A case study will illustrate the use of the Social Engineer's Toolkit, Maltego, and Google Hacking to collect information that contributed to a successful engagement. Attendees will learn to identify social illusions and respond to protect their personal and professional data. They will also learn how to frustrate the efforts of social engineers.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a very large, multi-faceted organization with a significant IT presence. A ten year veteran of the IT customer support industry, Phil will discuss his organization’s challenges, trials and tribulations, and successes as they evolved from a Help Desk to an IT Service Management focused Service Desk.

Phil’s presentation covers: the transformation of their very large internal organization – what was the “before” picture and how they determined what needed to change; how they articulated a vision and set objectives; the process of creating buy-in from skeptical IT service partners and customers in adopting the necessary ITIL processes – what worked and why; the process used to select and implement the right tools to support the objectives; steps taken to “cement” a service-based climate and a summary of major improvements made that radically changed IT support.

This session will look at the use cases developed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the public to drive interoperability, portability and security of cloud computing. A panel of key representatives from NIST as well as several industry standards organizations, including the DMTF, SNIA and the Cloud Security Alliance will discuss their work as it pertains to these use cases. The discussion will cover portable workloads and standardized interfaces for cloud computing. The goal of cloud standards is to improve cloud consumer agility and define a set of architectural semantics that unify the interoperable management of workloads and resources between enterprises of all sizes and cloud computing infrastructures.

Panelists:
Lee Badger, Computer Scientist, NIST
Mark Johnson, Co-Chair, DMTF Cloud Management Working Group
Mark Carlson, Vice Chair, SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative
Becky Swain, Risk & Compliance Mgmt, Corporate Security Programs Organization (CSPO), Cisco

Moderator:
Winston Bumpus, President, DMTF