Mobile Device Management: Securing Your Agency’s Information

As agencies move applications and services to the cloud over, two common themes emerged. First is the initial step toward the cloud usually begins with virtual...

As agencies move applications and services to the cloud over, two common themes emerged. First is the initial step toward the cloud usually begins with virtualization across multiple platforms: applications, server, desktop and user. Cloud then opened the door to enabling mission operations in a mobile environment. Federal employees could take advantage of smartphones and tablet computers to input or review data in real-time, and improve access to applications no matter where they are working. The Postal Service’s Inspector General’s office, for example, virtualized more than 400 servers serving both its front end infrastructure and back-end storage and computing power. By virtualizing, the USPS OIG now is moving toward a bring-your-own-device or BYOD strategy to let employees take advantage of the virtualized environment securely and efficiently. Other agencies are following suit. The Navy hopes to virtualize all their servers and applications by 2017 as both a cost cutting strategy and to improve access through mobile devices. There’s no doubt federal CIOs have accepted the benefits of virtualization. A recent survey by Forrester and NetApp of private sector IT executives found they say virtualization drives down hardware costs and improve disaster recovery capabilities. Now add the quick evolution of mobile devices, whether smartphones or tablets, and the benefits of virtualization multiply. At the same time, virtualization and mobile computing creates challenges—chief among them is security of data and the device. The panel will answer:

  • How are you looking to collaborate with others using mobile data or are you just hoping to view it as necessary?
  • How does virtualization help you prepare for making mission critical apps ready for mobile devices?
  • What are common criteria used to determine if data is approved to transport to a mobile device?
  • Do you plan optimize apps for mobile devices, or do you plan custom-build mobile apps?
  • How do you secure data stored on mobile devices? How does virtualization help you ensure your data is more secure?
  • How are you using public vs. private data storage options when mobile devices access data?

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GUEST BIOGRAPHIES

Gary Barlet is the Chief Information Officer of the USPS OIG. He retired from the Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel on November 1st, 2012 where he spent 20 years as a Communications System Officer focused primarily on deployed communications and network operations. He has been part of multiple deployments, stationed both in CONUS and overseas. He spent his last 6 years assigned to the Pentagon serving on the staff of the HQ United States Air Force and then the Air National Guard CIO. Mr. Barlet is currently serving as the CIO for the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Postal Service and has been in the post since October 2012.
Mark Goodge is a highly qualified and recognized, action-oriented IT professional with more than 22 years of experience leading technology operations and initiatives across large-scale complex organizations. Today Mr. Goodge serves as the Acting Deputy Director of the Innovation and Advanced Technology Development Division, one of six divisions under the Defense Health Agency’s Health IT Directorate. In this role, Mr. Goodge is responsible for developing and managing a centrally- coordinated process to identify, research, develop, test, and evaluate innovative health IT capabilities, tools, and/or solution sets that can ultimately be deployed at an enterprise-level to help improve the DOD patient and provider experience.
Joe Brown is the President and Co-Founder of Accelera Solutions. Mr. Brown is President and co- founder of Accelera Solutions. He is responsible for the structure, strategy and execution of Accelera’s sales and marketing team. Additionally, Brown is the senior technologist and chief architect whereby he contributes his expertise in virtualization technology to continually evaluate new technology partners and manage the company’s position within the virtualization community.
Ken Liska has been a Virtualization Solution Specialist with NetApp U.S. Public Sector since April 2012. Prior to joining NetApp, he was a Sales Engineer with Citrix Systems for nearly five years supporting multiple U.S. Department of Defense agencies including the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Special Operations Command, and the Air Force. He has been working with virtualization solutions for more than ten years primarily specializing in application and desktop virtualization solutions from both Citrix and VMware. He has a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology.

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