Tag Archives: Public Sector

Bill Wright, director of federal government affairs at Splunk, wrote in a Federal Times article posted Monday that agencies should provide employees with training and reskilling opportunities to prepare them for rising data volumes.

Wendi Whitmore, vice president of a team working on threat intelligence and incident response at IBM, said the company’s Cost of a Data Breach report shows a connection between the adoption of security automation and orchestration practices and reduced data breach costs, Nextgov reported Thursday.

Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on FCW that frameworks and other resources from the National Institute of Standards and Technology provide government agencies a “strong road map” towards improving their cybersecurity posture.

David Watts, chief digital adviser for the public sector at World Wide Technology, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that government agencies should implement a data-driven culture and leverage data analytics to accelerate their digital transformation efforts.

Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted government agencies to accelerate their migration to the cloud to meet telework requirements and increased mission demands, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday.

Buchanan & Edwards will provide data governance training and certification support services for the U.S. Air Force’s data professionals under a blanket purchase agreement.

A new SolarWinds report shows that 52 percent of information technology security professionals from public sector organizations say they consider untrained and careless insiders as the top threat to their agencies.

ImmixGroup and its parent company, Arrow Electronics, can now offer a range of information technology products to state, local and education customers through a contract vehicle managed by a public sector-focused cooperative purchasing organization.

More than 300 government officials from 40 countries joined the three-day Amazon Web Services Government Delegation Program at re:Invent in Las Vegas to discuss the barriers to digital transformation and ways to address such challenges.

Digital design services provider Steampunk has joined a MuleSoft program that seeks to help customers build application programming interfaces and integrations.

A new Deloitte survey found that approximately 74 percent of early adopters of artificial intelligence in the public sector believe AI will be “critically” or “very” important to the success of their organizations in the next couple of years.

Joe Quaglia, president of the Americas at Tech Data (Nasdaq: TECD), told GCN in an interview published Thursday the company’s proposed acquisition of software and cloud technology aggregator DLT Solutions provides an opportunity for Tech Data to capture a share of the federal public sector market.

Jamie Brown, director of global government affairs at Tenable, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that public-private partnerships could help improve coordination to ensure the security of the electric grid.

TechnoMile has formed a business organization, called GovSearch, after acquiring government contact information assets from Carroll Publishing. Sally Swan, former Carroll Publishing CEO and current general manager of GovSearch, said in a blog post published Tuesday the addition of new content into TechnoMile's GovCon Suite can help customers identify potential targets as they implement growth and compliance initiatives.

DLT Solutions has partnered with nine technology vendors to market tools designed to help government organizations avoid cyber attacks on information technology systems. Brian Strosser, president of DLT, said the company supports public sector clients "with the broadest set of channel partners and cybersecurity tools, in an effort to improve each agency's risk management posture."