Tag: Strategy

July 18, 2018

Thomas Michelli, the Pentagon’s acting deputy CIO for cybersecurity said his office will soon release three separate strategies to support the National Defense Strategy, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. “We’re about ready to announce an artificial intelligence strategy. We’re setting up […]

June 14, 2018

It has been seven years since the Office of Management and Budget issued its Cloud First approach to help agencies move to the cloud. Under the guidance of Trump administration, OMB has spent a year consulting with agencies and now […]

May 22, 2018

Cloud services are here to stay, and they are taking over more enterprise functions every year. Where once cloud services were limited to simple storage or contact management, core functions like ERP have now moved to the cloud. And with […]

April 27, 2018

The Department of Homeland Security will issue a national cybersecurity strategy in mid-May, the DHS chief told a key House committee oversight hearing. “It will be shortly, within the next two weeks,” DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told the ranking member […]

October 18, 2017

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the world around us faster than ever before. We’re closer to having cars that drive themselves, natural language processing and computers that play chess with Grand Masters. As widespread as AI and […]

August 22, 2017

Does the IRS have a cloud strategy? Congress and government watchdogs want to know and are concerned that agency officials are passing up efficiency and cost-savings opportunities by adopting a broader strategy for using the cloud. An inspector general report […]

July 28, 2017

Although it might not be surprising that Americans are deeply concerned about cybersecurity, that anxiety has grown dramatically in the past few years. This year’s Unisys Security Index, a global consumer survey, found that concern about hacking and malware in […]

July 21, 2017

Chris Liddell, the president’s director of strategic initiatives, thinks the federal government may be spending as much as $200 billion on IT each year — far more than is generally acknowledged. Better data and metrics, he argued at a July […]

June 19, 2017

Cloud computing has helped many enterprises transform their IT practices over the past five years, but experts agree that the market is entering a second wave for public, private and hybrid cloud services. According to a Forrester Research survey, 38 […]

December 30, 2016

Donald Trump enters office with an ambitious vision and many promises to keep. But he’ll quickly discover one important lesson: No current problem that matters fits within an individual government agency or, for that matter, any single level of government. […]

December 30, 2016

Knowledge is an organization’s purest form of competitive advantage. Yet the government doesn’t do a good job of developing its employees or retaining and disseminating institutional knowledge that often is lost when key employees depart their agencies. Further complicating the […]

July 1, 2016

Pennsylvania hopes to make government systems more efficient under its new strategic plan, Chief Information Officer John MacMillan told StateScoop. Released in April, the state’s three-year Enterprise Information Technology Strategic Plan outlines four overarching goals for state IT to modernize its systems. The intent, MacMillan said, was to […]

November 25, 2015

Application portfolio management is a vital component of agencies’ efforts to do more with less while keeping the focus on achieving their mission. Read More on FCW

November 9, 2015

The rise in BYOD has left businesses struggling to manage the growing number of access points across their systems. A recent study conducted by Bitglass found that 57 percent of employees and 38 percent of IT professionals don’t participate in […]

November 6, 2015

When it comes to cybersecurity, there are two strategies. The first is reactive and is put into motion once security protocols have failed. The second, the proactive approach, can take you down the proverbial rabbit hole and into a world […]

May 4, 2015

If your IT team doesn’t have a SMAC roadmap, you may find your company drifting off-course in 2015 and 2016. Here’s brief refresher course on SMAC. While SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud ) concept crystalized only in the past […]

March 13, 2015

The Coast Guard plans to unveil a new cyber security strategy within the next month that focuses on protecting not only Coast Guard networks and systems from cyber attacks, but also the country’s 3,600 sea ports and facilities, and the […]