Leveraging the Open Government Data Platform & Visualization Engine

Government organizations are increasingly taking advantage of the scalability, agility, speed and cost savings offered by public cloud service providers. Yet the need for effective governance and compliance strategies often threatens to stall cloud adoption or erase the benefits of moving workloads to the cloud.

Mid-sized local governments see security as their top priority for modernizing their infrastructure in the next one to two years, and disaster recovery (DR) is one of their biggest drivers for moving to the cloud. These are just a few takeaways from a recent Center for Digital Government survey looking at how local government leaders are moving forward with modernization and the challenges they face.

In The Lightning Round, a new webinar series from Government Technology, we’re explaining these emerging concepts and demystifying gov tech one buzzword at a time. In this episode, we’re looking at Zero Trust. It has quickly emerged as an essential part of a modern cybersecurity framework. But what exactly does Zero Trust security mean? How has the concept evolved since it was introduced — and how might it continue to change?

There are inflated expectations and much confusion about what blockchain really means for government agencies. Despite there being significant interest in blockchain, there's modest action taken in education and government. Gartner predicts that by 2021, 5% of government entities will adopt blockchain as transparent, authoritative ledger for some official records. Through 2018, blockchain named projects are likely to deliver business value without actually using blockchain. This webinar, will dispel myths and provide clarity on how blockchain works and how it can be useful for government agencies.