Employing Cloud as a Security Tool: This Changes Everything

I will be speaking at the "Open Group Scottsdale Conference" on January 28th. My session will be entitled "Employing Cloud as a Security Tool: This Changes Everything". Here's a brief summary of this session:

There has been a lot of buzz and discussion about the effectiveness and efficiency of the cloud. There have also been many innovations aimed at enhancing the security the cloud itself. Nevertheless, there is a new trend calling for using the cloud as a tool and backbone of security. This emerging concept has many new architectural components that are now being developed to exploit such potentials. 

In this talk, we highlight the architectural principles that must be used to architect such solutions and we provide a couple of case studies as examples. The first case study is focused on a large next generation malware detection in the financial sector and the second highlights the largest implementation of a cyber security shared services platform in the US government.

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Cloud Reservoirs: a practical cloud consumption model for the federal government

I will be speaking at the "Open Group San Diego Conference" on January 30th. My session will be entitled "Cloud Reservoirs: a practical cloud consumption model for the federal government". Here's a brief summary of this session:

While the Cloud computing buzz continues to take the lion’s share of the federal government visions, strategies, and plans, real adoption is still lacking. Compliance program such as FedRAMP and various GSA or agency level BPAs have increased confidence and made the cloud more attainable. But much of the current cloud workloads are based on development and testing environments, low hanging fruits like online productivity, or smaller greenfield projects. Meanwhile, enterprise and mission workloads are still lagging behind.
One of the problems prohibiting adoption is the need for a good structure to ensure flexibility in accessing various cloud services while reducing risks and ensuring budget predictability.
In this session you will learn about an innovative way for structuring a cloud consumption model that allows government agencies to capitalize on the value and premise of cloud computing while mitigating the risks of budget unpredictability.

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IT Optimization: Knowing your baseline and minimizing risks

The recording of the WTOP Federal News Radio Panel on IT Optimization is now available on this link: WTOP LINK

Moderator
Jason Miller, Federal News Radio

Panelists

• Thomas Beach, Chief Data Strategist & Digital Services and Big Data Portfolio Manager, United States Patent and Trademark Office
• George Jakabcin, Chief Information Officer, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
• Jeff Shilling, Chief of IT and Infrastructure Services, National Cancer Institute
• Majed Saadi, Chief Technology Officer, Govplace
• Bob Nicholson, Business Development Manager, Dell Federal

Determining High Value IT Initiatives @ the Open Group Conference in Philly

I will be speaking at the "Open Group Philadelphia Conference" on July 15th. My session will be entitled "Determining High Value IT Initiatives". Here's a brief summary of this session:

As IT budgets shrink, enterprise architects must increasingly focus on identifying and achieving infrastructure cost savings based on quantified ROI and risk. Typically, the complexity and heterogeneity of infrastructure environments makes optimization difficult but budget pressures necessitate performance improvements. Utilizing portfolio management and enterprise architecture techniques, this presentation describes an approach to identify solutions with "high return" cost savings.


Key takeaways:

• Understanding of the key efficiency levers that can result in reduced costs
• Approach for prioritizing and selecting highest value initiatives

Session material has been co-authored by Sandra Ambrose (Director, Infrastructure Services Practice @ SRA International)

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