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Cyber Attacks are Just as Damaging as Natural Disasters

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He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Leadership from Fordham University and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Project Management Professional. Costello is a nine-year veteran of the U.S Air Force and U.S. Air Force Reserves.

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NTIA’s spectrum IT modernization plans have several gaps, GAO reports

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The NTIA has checked several boxes in its modernization efforts, including the creation of an implementation team with designated leadership, securing a funding source, setting outcome-oriented goals and establishing processes for progress reports to management and adapting plans.

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Knowing When, Where and How to Modernize

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Department of Energy’s Offices of the CFO A leadership expert once said , “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” 6 Steps to Success But great rewards are possible with effective change management. An interview with LeAnn Oliver, Director of Corporate Business Systems, U.S.

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Letting the Good Ones In, Keeping the Bad Ones Out: Managing Access for Zero Trust

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Featured Speakers: Alper Kerman × Alper Kerman Security Engineer & Project Manager Alper Kerman is a security engineer and project manager at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), NIST. He has twice been awarded Jessie H.

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Using Data to Fortify Network Defenses

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Previous roles include leadership positions at the MITRE Corporation, FEDDATA, and S2i2, Inc. Garris is accomplished technologist with over 26 years of federal cybersecurity leadership expertise including 15 years leading cyber programs for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has twice been awarded Jessie H.

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Zero Trust is Needed to Win the Cyber War

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Within this period, La Monte also served as the Acting CIO and eventually the Director for the Operations and Management Division, where his focus was to bring secure & high-performance computing platforms to every user in OIG. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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Governments need to plan for the entire product lifecycle when they purchase technology today

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The team should be diverse, with representatives that include IT leadership, department heads (for domain expertise), finance professionals, legal counsel, cybersecurity experts and end-users from relevant departments.” He believes all these competencies “can aid in navigating the complex landscape of government tech adoption.”