All government agencies face the challenge of achieving ambitious IT modernization goals while juggling limited resources and seemingly endless needs. This week on Feds At the Edge, experts explore practical strategies to make modernization both achievable and cost-effective. Christine Maii Sakuda, State Chief Information Officer (CIO) and administrator of the Office of Enterprise Technology Services for Hawaii, shares how [...]
Cloud adoption is accelerating, data is exploding, and agencies are under pressure to understand where cloud provider responsibility end, and where theirs begins. This week on Feds At the Edge, experts from the State of Kansas, GovRAMP, and Palo Alto Networks share practical guidance for navigating today’s cloud landscape. Jeff Maxon, CITO for the State of Kansas, shares how [...]
Available on Demand | December 9, 2025 | 1 Hour | 1 CPE Federal agencies face enormous pressure to integrate AI into their operations. But they also face immense challenges to do so securely – both that the AI is accurate and trustworthy, and that it does not introduce new risks. Much of the current risk arises from legacy [...]
What if decades of security headaches could be solved with one framework? In 2011, FedRAMP was created to end the repetitive, time-consuming security audits across federal agencies, standardizing security to cut costs and accelerate cloud adoption. Fast forward ten years, and state governments faced the same challenges. Enter GovRAMP: a standardized, transparent framework based on NIST 800-53 rev5, designed [...]
Available on Demand | December 3, 2025 | 1 Hour | 1 CPE As IT and security deployments migrate to the cloud, security gaps in air-gapped systems can be created unless attention focuses on threats such as data transfer from external storage media – for example, USB devices. Paradoxically, many agencies continue to maintain critical systems and data on [...]
Available on Demand | December 4, 2025 | 1 Hour | 1 CPE The original version of Moore's law declared that the capacity of an integrated circuit – the backbone of IT – doubles every two years. For decision-makers in the era of artificial intelligence, this could be revised to observe that new versions of AI proliferate at [...]