VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM: Empowering Government Through Hybrid Cloud
July 30, 2021
Join the Homeland Security & Defense Forum for a virtual symposium: Empowering Government through Hybrid Cloud. The program consists of a panel discussion and fireside chats featuring leadership from DEA, DHS, ICE, FEMA, and industry. Topics will explore how hybrid cloud environments provide unprecedented capability to federal agencies, innovations in the cloud, and implementing zero trust.
Panel Discussion on Zero Trust with DHS, McAfee, and Red Hat
Learn more about how zero trust helps to secure hybrid cloud environments, capabilities zero trust architecture provides for federal agencies, preparing the federal workforce to implement zero trust, and best practices to prevent ransomware attacks.
Fireside chat participants include:
- Mr. Brian Campo, Deputy CTO, Department of Homeland Security
- Mr. Alex Chapin, Vice President, Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, McAfee
- Mr. Mike Epley, Chief Architect and Security Strategist, Public Sector, Red Hat
- Mr. Luke McCormack, former CIO at DHS (moderator)
Fireside Chat with FEMA and ServiceNow on Cloud Capability
Mr. Jonathan Alboum from ServiceNow moderates a discussion with Dr. Greg Edwards, FEMA's Acting Chief Information Security Officer about cloud to support the mission, data strategy, and balancing innovation with risk.
Fireside chat participants include:
- Dr. Greg Edwards, Chief Information Security Officer, Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Mr. Jonathan Alboum, Federal Chief Technology Officer, ServiceNow (moderator)
Fireside Chat with DEA, ICE, and Microsoft on Cloud Capability
Learn about how cloud supports a variety of missions at DEA and ICE, innovations taking place in the cloud, unique cloud requirements in the law enforcement space, and where these agencies envision their cloud journey in the next three years.
Fireside chat participants include:
- Mr. Richard Inzunza, ICE Cloud Broker, Office of the CIO, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Mr. Rhett Krulla, Technical Strategist, Homeland Security Division, Microsoft
- Mr. Alex Smith, Chief Technology Officer, Information Systems Division, Drug Enforcement Agency
- Mr. Charlie Armstrong, former CIO, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (moderator)
12:00 p.m.
Opening Remarks
Megan Mance, Homeland Security & Defense Forum
12:05 p.m.
Panel Discussion - Zero Trust to Secure the Hybrid Cloud Environments
- Mr. Brian Campo, Deputy CTO, Department of Homeland Security
- Mr. Alex Chapin, Vice President, Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, McAfee
- Mr. Mike Epley, Chief Architect and Security Strategist, Public Sector, Red Hat
- Mr. Luke McCormack, former CIO at DHS (moderator)
12:55 p.m.
Law Enforcement & Cloud Fireside Chat
- Mr. Richard Inzunza, ICE Cloud Broker, Office of the CIO, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Mr. Rhett Krulla, Technical Strategist, Homeland Security Division, Microsoft
- Mr. Alex Smith, Chief Technology Officer, Information Systems Division, Drug Enforcement Agency
- Mr. Charlie Armstrong, former CIO, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (moderator)
1:35 p.m.
Department of Homeland Security & Cloud Fireside Chat
- Dr. Greg Edwards, Chief Information Security Officer, Federal Emergency Management
Agency - Mr. Jonathan Alboum, Federal Chief Technology Officer, ServiceNow (moderator)
2:00 p.m.
Program Ends
Public sector requires a different security approach
Both data intelligence and threats are no longer confined to the walls of agencies or institutions—and neither should your security. By partnering together, we offer an open and integrated security system designed to mitigate risk, protect data and ensure visibility across all your devices, platforms and architectures.
The best way to learn about our solutions is to hear from those who use them. McAfee is a trusted cybersecurity partner across all three branches of the U.S. government, all cabinet-level agencies and all four branches of the U.S. military. State and Local agencies, as well as Education and University systems round out our robust Public Sector portfolio.
For more than 40 years, Microsoft has been committed to serving government customers as they deliver mission-critical work. Microsoft Federal is here to meet these evolving needs and make certain we are in the best position to deliver the latest in cloud innovation direct to the U.S. Federal Government. We are a U.S. team that is fully dedicated to meeting the mission needs of our US Federal Government customers.
Red Hat continues to serve as a trusted partner for government agencies, providing modern practices and technologies that can help your agency innovate while meeting regulatory requirements and reducing risk.
Government agencies need to modernize and transform services to more quickly adapt to evolving mission needs and meet the expectations of their stakeholders. Red Hat brings an open framework and broad solution portfolio to help agencies accelerate innovation by uniting people, processes, and technology. We enable agencies to benefit from the best of open source innovation while mitigating risk.
Red Hat products are tested, certified, and supported, to help your agency securely meet its mission with more efficiency, agility, and speed.
ServiceNow develops and sells a hosted, subscription based suite of services designed to automate various IT department functions, such as help desk, operations management and change/release management. The company also sells a number of applications which automate various self service related applications outside of the IT department, such as HR onboarding, facilities requests and governance, risk and compliance.
