The Enterprise Approach: Seamlessly Connecting Government to Constituents

In the year ahead, state and local governments are investing in people and technology to increase internal productivity and implement systems that prioritize user experiences. To make this effort a reality, finance leaders must optimize their financial management strategies to increase resources, reduce costs, and expand their organization’s capacity to analyze data in a way that positively impacts customer response and satisfaction.

The FCC State and Local Government Webinar on Disaster Preparedness features an insightful presentation by Chris Anderson, Chief, Operations and Emergency Management Division, FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.

State and local governments are tasked with securely connecting one or multiple of five things to support mission-critical needs: People, locations, data, clouds and applications. With a renewed focus on government cybersecurity, agencies face increased pressure to keep those connections secure. There’s growing attention to the physical security of government data centers and an increase in the adoption of cloud strategies that explore vendor-neutral data center options. And as governments look to future-proof their operations and keep pace with the ever-changing digital world, more agencies are leveraging networking and interconnection capabilities that can dynamically deliver services from multiple clouds or networks around the country. Having effective security across these clouds will be critical in enabling agency success.

In the digital age, cyber-attacks on federal networks and critical infrastructure threaten core functions of the government and stability of the economy. In order to protect and defend against attacks on critical services, federal agencies often need to act and react quickly, creatively, and with agility. In order to achieve these ideals, proactively maintain federal network security, and quickly resolve known issues, CISA releases binding and time sensitive emergency directives. Complying with these directives is necessary to protect agencies from attacks and exploitation, but they can often present various implementation challenges. Join GovExec TV as we talk with federal IT security experts on how agencies can overcome challenges to implementation and respond quickly to these emergency directives by understanding vulnerabilities, utilizing agile systems, and understanding how to navigate the federal budget.