Mark your calendars for the Information security conference April 3-4 and COVITS to be held Sept. 3-4. CIO Sam Nixon was honored by Government Technology in their 2014 Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers and Virginia is a finalist in ACT-IAC Excellence.Gov awards. Learn how VITA is taking steps to help agencies that still are using Windows XP. Agencies that have Windows XP in their environment at its end of life April 8 are reminded to file for a security exception with Commonwealth Security by March 18 in this month's Network News. 

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136 people participated in the Commonwealth's Information Security Officers Advisory Group (ISOAG) meeting March 5. The keynote presentation was provided by Jack Mannino, CEO, nVisium, on"Eliminating Mobile Application Security Risks." In addition, Jim Watwood (VITA) provided an "SOA Composite Application: Security Overview", followed by John Craft (VITA) with "Session Management XXS & CSRF, Oh My!" The session was hosted by Commonwealth Chief Information Security Officer Michael Watson and VITA.

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CIO Sam Nixon received a team award with Virginia Health and Human Resources Secretary William Hazel and Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles CIO David Burhop. Government Technology touted this year as "the year of the team," in which several groups were recognized for partnering to advance technology in the public sector. "We think it represents a healthy trend toward multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional collaboration," said Steve Towns, executive editor of Government Technology.

Read the article announcing the Government Technology 2014 Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers
Read the Government Technology article about Nixon, Hazel and Burhop

Register today for the first annual Commonwealth of Virginia Information Security Conference, with a theme of "Information Security: Enabling the Business." The conference will focus on issues such as balancing security risks and business needs, effective security metrics, regulatory compliance, information security governance, major business trends with security implications and more. In addition to expert presentations, the conference program will feature keynote addresses by two nationally known speakers, Dr. Don Ross of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Justin Somaini, Chief Trust Officer at Box. The deadline to register for this exciting conference is March 15.

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