Best Practices in Cyber Defense from the US Air Force

Fortify Software invites you to learn directly from the US Air Force Colonel Kevin Foley on how military and civilian agencies can build strong defenses in application security against growing cyber attacks. In this one hour webinar, Colonel Foley, the Head of the Air Force’s Application Security Center of Excellence, will help you learn How hackers are targeting custom-built applications for sensitive intellectual property and data, Strategies you can use that have been tested and used by the Air Force to diminish the cyber threat, and Specific products and technologies agencies can deploy to bolster software security. Scheduled for broadcast February 12, 2008 at 2PM EDT/11AM PDT. Register today.

Resilient and Flexible Disaster Recovery for Federal Agencies: Create resilient, flexible and cost-effective infrastructure!

Did you know that combining virtual infrastructure with storage and data protection solutions can not only optimize datacenter and desktop utilization and performance, but also provide a critical support system for disaster recovery? Please join Carahsoft, EMC and VMware for a webcast, where you will learn how to: Design and deploy a disaster recovery solution that overcomes the limitations of physical infrastructure, Increase infrastructure resource availability, Build flexibility and resilience into base architecture. These solutions can also provide support for an overall program to comply with the guidelines of HSPD-20. Scheduled for broadcast February 13, 2008 at 2PM EDT/11AM PDT. Register today.

IPv6 Transition Today and Beyond: What Agencies Need to Consider

As the June 2008 deadline quickly approaches, many agencies have made significant progress in transitioning to IPv6, and others are working towards meeting the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s mandate. Juniper Networks in collaboration with Federal Computer Week and GCN invite you to attend an IPv6 Webcast to learn, The security capabilities and challenges with IPv6, How to define IPv6 capable to meet your specific agency’s requirements and remain interoperable, The latest information and guidance to help with transition planning, and The requirements and policies set aside to meet the OMB mandate. Scheduled for broadcast February 20, 2008 at 2PM EDT/11AM PDT. Register today.

Tag! You're It. Putting Data into Context Quickly

Federal agencies, the Department of Defense, and the intelligence community are awash in documents. Often times, these documents contain a plethora of data that loses value without proper context. Join Chris Biow, Mark Logic Chief Technologist to review three techniques for enhancing and extracting meaning from content—from classic metadata to extracting words and snippets of data, to learn the critical role Information Access and Delivery Solutions play in locating and preserving the context of the content from which they came. Without origin, these annotations and low-level metadata lose much of their meaning and to demonstrate how you can produce agile systems with the Mark Logic XML Content Platform that enables your users to find, visualize, display, and interact with content at all levels of granularity. Scheduled for broadcast February 26, 2008 at 2PM EDT/11AM PDT. Register today.

Supporting Federal Network Transitions: Maintaining Availability, Security, and Compliance while addressing Networx, IPv6 and the Trusted Internet Connections Initiative

Networx Transition, IPv6 adoption and planning for TIC have something in common; they are major transition initiatives which require complete visibility into network connectivity and behavior, so that the demands of change can be balanced with security, availability and policy compliance imperatives. In this webcast, you will learn about key transition success factors and best practices for scoping requirements and anticipating risk, You will discover how to Assess your organizations’ current infrastructures and capabilities, Plan, well in advance of the OMB deadlines, a roadmap that accurately reflects the current picture of your infrastructure, focusing on gaps between policy and defenses, Accurately estimate needed infrastructure changes, including device upgrades and reduction of Internet connections, Limit unwanted connectivity or other security risks during the changeover and after the transition. Scheduled for broadcast February 27 2008 at 2PM EDT/11AM PDT. Register today.

Going for the Green Light: Why Project Based Solutions May be The Answer

While there is definite improvement in certain areas of program management, federal agencies are under constant pressure from all sides when trying to deliver services. Internally, emphasis is placed on controlling program costs and enforcing best practices in project management and risk mitigation strategies. Externally, the American public wants agencies to provide key services, while keeping an eye on the performance of the program’s bottom line. All spell out a greater need for transparency into the planning and management process. The question is: are there applications that can help? Project Based Solutions (PBS), including project portfolio management applications, is a prime example of the types of tools organizations can employ to increase transparency, extend controls and make program management more efficient. Join Ray Wang from Forrester Research, along with Primavera Systems, as they examine developing trends in government requirements for project and program management. You will learn: Key Trends in Government Program Management Requirements Characteristics of Project Based Solutions The Best Way to Determine if PBS is for You How Primavera can Help Originally broadcast January 30, 2008, this webcast will be online until April 30, 2008.

Techniques for Optimized WAN: Control, Performance and Security for Application Delivery

Getting more from your existing bandwidth is not a trivial task, and more agencies are looking to WAN optimization technologies as a way to get a five- to 20-fold improvement in network performance without leasing more bandwidth. The WAN optimization space, which started as a tactical bandage to fix network congestion problems, is becoming a strategic enterprise service. The knee-jerk approach to speeding up application performance over the network is to add bandwidth or purchase new servers and distribute them across the enterprise to host applications and data that would be closer to users. There are a number of problems with this approach. Distributing applications on servers goes against the current trend in government. However, even in the best of situations, centralizing applications can have a performance impact on large networks. Watch this webinar to learn more about the situation the Air National Guard (ANG) was facing with its network, which connects more than 200 locations in 54 states and territories. Instead of increasing bandwidth, the proper solution turned out to be the Blue Coat ProxySG. Enforcement and acceleration go hand in hand because of the network overhead in policy enforcement. Originally broadcast January 29, 2008, this webcast will be online until October 29, 2008.

Spatially Enabling Enterprise Asset Management with ESRI and IBM Maximo

Asset data is more valuable when you know its’ location. Maximo Spatial with ArcGIS enables asset managers to view their data in a spatial context. They can easily and dynamically visualize the spatial relationships among managed assets and the roads, buildings, pipelines, and other mapped features around them. This solution empowers levels of awareness and insight that dry numbers alone cannot provide. What you will learn from this webcast: Extend your investment in ESRI with innovative technology that puts the power of GIS in your asset management solution. Learn the value of place and proximity in a spatially-enabled enterprise application. Make better decisions to improve the performance and mission-readiness of your agency’s assets. Originally broadcast December 18, 2007, this webcast will be online until June 18, 2008.

Practical Applications of Smart Cards in Government

Government organizations around the world are using smart cards and virtual desktop solutions to improve access to government services, streamline computing resources, and making computing available to more people. Find out some of the innovative ways that government organizations are using these technologies to launch new programs and extend services to their communities. In this webcast, learn about: How government can use the Sun Virtual Desktop Solutions to improve security, access and manageability of desktop environments Why governments around the world are using smart cards for identification What the combination of Sun Virtual Desktop and ActivIdentity Smart Employee ID solutions mean for your government organization This seminar will be informative for federal, state and local government audiences. Hear from Speakers: Conn Crawford, Special Projects Officer, City of Sunderland UK - Conn Crawford has worked in ICT-led economic development in the UK public sector for 20 years. His council led the formation of a region-wide smart card consortium in 1999. He currently manages their Trust Services Infrastructure supplying IDM, PKI and smart card services to 30+ local councils, universities and enterprise agencies. Chris Kawalek, Sr. Product Manager, Virtual Desktop Software, Sun Microsystems Before joining Sun, Chris co-founded and was CTO of a software company specializing in on-demand presentations over the internet. Currently, Chris is the product manager for Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software. Robert Brandewie, SVP Public Sector Solutions, ActivIdentity Robert has more than 30 years of identity strategy and policy development experience. Robert served as Director of the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) and was architect of the Common Access Card system (CAC) for the Department of Defense. Originally broadcast December 13, 2007, this webcast will be online until March 13, 2008.

Leveraging Free-Form Text Data: How to Achieve Complete Performance Excellence

Leading government organizations determined to reach performance excellence have found a new challenge: How to transform a growing mountain of free-form text – previously hidden in classified and open-source text data, including blogs, web pages, intelligence reports and emails into true, actionable information. Evidence suggests that by combining both textual and structured information through search, entity extraction and text analytics, government organizations can make every person, process and decision more intelligent. Please join Inxight Federal Systems, Federal Computer Week and GCN for an informative Web seminar that will examine how organizations are leveraging free-form text to achieve performance excellence in Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Health and Human Services, Defense Business Transformation, Supporting the Warfighter, and other government priorities. Discussion Topics: The challenges in leveraging text data to achieve performance excellence How to optimize search to enable knowledge workers to sift through vast amounts of internal and external text data – quickly How to turn free-form text into usable, structured information Examples of how unstructured data is being used by government organizations Originally broadcast December 12, 2007, this webcast will be online until March 12, 2008.

Networx Transition Best Practices

The transition to Networx represents the largest service migration ever undertaken by the federal government. With less than 6 months remaining in the recommended timeframe for agencies to have transition plans in place, agencies have a pressing need to develop requirements for the move based on a complete analysis of their current asset inventory, as well as clear definition of operational needs. Failure to deliver the requirements on time, will significantly impact an agency’s ability to receive reimbursement of transition costs. As the federal government moves toward a managed-services environment, an idea of what assets need to be monitored and managed can be a nearly impossible task if discovery is conducted through traditional manual means. Without an accurate view of the complete network, MSPs cannot accurately scope an agency’s network management needs. At the same time, agencies cannot confirm whether their needs are being accurately scoped, all the agency network assets are being managed, or they are opening themselves up to increased security risks. An accurate network baseline is an essential component of a Networx transition. Understanding what devices and security controls are on the network - and how they are configured throughout the transition and post-transition - is critical for maintaining security and availability while in the process of shifting to Networx. In this Webcast, experts from Lumeta will present critical Networx transition success factors and best practices for scoping requirements and anticipating risk. You’ll learn how to: Assess your organization’s current infrastructure and capabilities. Build a Networx transition plan that accurately reflects the current picture of the infrastructure -- focusing on gaps between policy and defenses. Accurately estimate needed changes to the infrastructure including device upgrades. Limit unwanted connectivity or other risks to security posture during the changeover and post-transition. And much more. Originally broadcast December 11, 2007, this webcast will be online until March 11, 2008.

Continuity of Operations (COOP) - Lessons Learned from the Front Line

Join us for a webcast that will focus on providing lessons learned from federal agencies that have survived disasters and have successfully conducted simulation exercises. Gain COOP planning insight from Roger Cressey, President of Good Harbor Consulting and former Chief of Staff to the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Also hear from additional government leaders who have been involved in large-scale COOP initiatives. Attend this webcast to: Learn best practices from agencies that have survived disasters and have conducted simulation exercises Leverage real-world experiences from successful implementations of COOP plans Hear about proactive measures that can be taken to avoid or lessen the impact of a potential disruption to your critical infrastructure Become better prepared to comply with the NSPD-51/HSPD-20 mandate The federal government has made it a priority to develop plans for ensuring continuity of operations (COOP) and recovery in the event of a disaster. The National Security Presidential Directive NSPD-51 (also known as Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-20) outlines the steps that agencies must take to prepare for disasters. With this new executive order in place, COOP has become an even more critical part of agencies’ strategic planning processes. As part of the directive, agencies need to prepare plans, budgets and exercises to test their COOP preparedness each year. One of the key questions that arises is how well an agency’s COOP plan translates into action when the time comes to execute. Originally broadcast December 5, 2007, this webcast will be online until March 5, 2008.

Implementing Successful Data Migrations: The Critical Path to an On-time and On-Budget Application Project

Throughout government, the pressure to meet ambitious milestones for large-scale transformation and modernization projects has never been greater. There are many challenges and ever increasing risk to contend with – and many involving your data! Whether undertaking business process transformations, application consolidation, ERP implementations, or any number of other enterprise application projects…there is a clear critical path to success: Having a complete Data Migration strategy. Join Informatica for an informative webinar on understanding the problems that plague Data Migration projects, the impact to your application initiatives when Data Migration is overlooked, and what can be learned to avoid common mistakes that lead to project failure. We will cover key topics, such as: Find out why only 1 in 6 Data Migration projects ever succeed to meet their deadlines or budgets Implementing a proven methodology for Data Migration How to minimize risk and decrease time-to-delivery on your modernization initiatives Data discovery and data profiling to gain an understanding of legacy systems Managing and improving data consistency and quality across the entire Data Migration project Delivering value early and often within your SOA Understand and collaborate data and business insight throughout your agency Speakers: Jim Pruden, Sr. Director, Informatica Federal Arvind Parthasarathi, VP Product Management, Informatica Originally broadcast November 28, 2007, this webcast will be online until February 28, 2008.

WAN Optimization Webcast: Improve the Overall Performance and Productivity of Your Agency's Applications with WAN Acceleration

Shifts in the way government agencies operate and communicate are having a major impact on IT systems and network architectures across all agencies. Unprecedented amounts of bandwidth are integral to supporting new and existing applications, disaster recovery efforts and inter-agency data sharing. Juniper Networks WAN acceleration solutions enable organizations to experience 2x to 10x performance gains on web and as high as 30x to 50x gains on Exchange and file services. During this informative session, you will learn how WAN acceleration can: Provide key support and implementation to your continuity of operations or disaster recovery plan Enable a robust data center consolidation initiative Improve user productivity allowing your agency to more effectively prioritize traffic, reduce time to troubleshoot problems and provide overall IT management cost savings Enable organizations to more effectively and efficiently roll out and manage mission critical applications Our panels of experts include: Jerry Edgerton - Consultant and former President of Verizon Federal Anil Rao - Director of WX Product Management, Juniper Networks Robert Woods - President, Topside Consulting and former GSA/FTS Commissioner Originally broadcast November 14, 2007, this webcast will be online until February 14, 2008.

How Agencies Can Optimize Private Line Bandwidth without Sacrificing Performance

If you work on network planning or operations on federal, state or local government agency networks, you likely use carrier private line services to support data connectivity for legacy applications as well as emerging applications like web services, remote data replication, LAN extension and VOIP. With more and more traffic on private lines, many agencies are being forced to decide between either ordering more costly higher speed services or limiting today's application deployment to fit your current bandwidth. And of course, many of today's emerging applications require low latency and high bandwidth, adding additional challenges of meeting network requirements of emerging applications on a limited budget. In this webcast Ciena will discuss the pressures on today's agency IT networks, driving network planners and architects to look for new innovative approaches to support growth while containing costs. An innovative solution will be introduced that can support increased bandwidth - of two times, three times or more - on existing DS3 and SONET private line services while limiting costly upgrades to high speed private line services. A business case example will be included. Join Ciena in this webcast and learn how to: Choose the best connectivity option for your agency's needs (e.g, Increasing SONET/SDH bandwidth, migration to IP and Ethernet Services, etc) Retain high bandwidth and low latency at an affordable cost Increase your network's throughput by 3 or 4 times for storage replication and Ethernet traffic over existing private lines Utilize new innovative approaches to maintain low costs Speakers: Sandy Bates - Executive Consultant, Topside Consulting, LLC James Archuleta - Director, Government Solutions, Ciena Corporation Originally broadcast November 7, 2007, this webcast will be online until February 7, 2008.

Taking Geospatial and Imaging Up a Notch

Geospatial data is everywhere. From satellites to streets, terrain to topology. GIS is part of all government agencies – whether you’re working at the federal or the state and local level. Growing databases and datasets are pushing workstations to the brink. You know where the data is. That’s become the easy part. The question now is how to more effectively integrate, model, analyze, manage, and share the data efficiently across your organization. We invite you to watch this on-demand webcast as we look at GIS and Imaging and how you can implement a robust environment today that will lead you into the future. We’ll explore trends in the market, where technology is making its impact, and what should be evaluated to give you maximum productivity at the lowest overall cost. Our speakers include: Brad Heasley, Autodesk Geospatial Solutions Engineer, Autodesk, Inc. Rick Indyke, Federal Business Development Manager, AMD Dave Buckley, North America Workstation Product Manager, HP Who should watch: GIS Managers and Directors looking to structure a Geospatial environment that address total cost of ownership IT Management interested in solutions that minimize down time and maximize ease of maintenance Geospatial engineers doing advanced imaging work who want to understand how to boost their system performance Originally broadcast November 6, 2007, this webcast will be online until February 6, 2008.

Secure Your Business with Radware Adaptive Behavioral Protection Technology

Cyber criminal organization put Internet connected businesses under siege; threaten them with the next level of threats that focus on consuming the server applications’ resources. These threats that can be generated through HTTP bots, IRC bots and other means are deadly because they can relatively easily cause service degradation or a complete halt of the application. These new threats are not necessarily associated with unusual traffic volume nor do they contain any non-legitimate application requests. This allow hackers to integrate well with totally legitimate forms of communications, raising the detection and prevention challenge into a level that prevent organizations from being protected effectively thus allowing to be extorted by cyber criminals. This webinar introduces the security threats evolution and challenges that CISO face at the data center and internet gateway endangering their service and business continuity. What you will learn: The webinar outlines some of the service-based attack characteristics that have evolved in the past few years. It then characterizes technological techniques for behavioral analysis methods that are required in order to detect and mitigate these service-based attacks. It explains technologies which were being used before the problem of network security arose, in order to characterize dynamic behavior through noise and uncertainty conditions, and is useful for Network Intrusion Prevention. These technologies are: Adaptive Expert Decision Algorithms and Closed-Feedback Systems. It then goes on to explain Radware’s behavioral server-based protections technology and how it mitigates malicious attempts of server resources misuse and prevents attacks at the service level. Originally broadcast October 31, 2007, this webcast will be online until January 31, 2008.