Overview

September 25
10AM PT, 1PM ET

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State and local government agencies generate massive volumes of operational and security data every day — from system logs and network activity to application events. This information is valuable, but without the right approach it can quickly become a growing cost center and a missed opportunity for insight.

Join Government Technology and Cribl for a live webinar exploring how public sector teams are taking control of their telemetry and other critical data so it’s easier to search, less expensive to store, and more adaptable to new operational and security demands. We’ll discuss how to navigate evolving cyber mandates, stretch the value of existing tools, and build a flexible data strategy that works in any environment.

In this 30-minute webinar, you’ll discover:

  • Strategies to manage and optimize licensing and storage costs while maintaining visibility, compliance, and resilience
  • Overlooked practices that make or break incident response when every second counts
  • Key questions to ask technology vendors in 2026 — including FedRAMP readiness — to ensure they can support both today’s compliance needs and tomorrow’s innovation

Speakers

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Bert Hayes

Senior Solutions Engineer

Bert Hayes has over 20 years experience helping State and Local governments and Higher Education organizations keep their networks secure. He's been paid to hack Texas state agencies and paid to defend them; and as an Incident Handler at the University of Texas he's cleaned up messes from attacks you've heard about and from some you hopefully never will. Bert loves sniffing the wire and is a co-author of Snort for Dummies. He lives in Austin with his wife, two teenage kids, a couple of cats, a dog and a turtle.

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Ronald M. Bergmann — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Ronald M. Bergmann most recently served as Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at Lehman College/CUNY. At Lehman, Ron and his team pioneered the use of analytics, automated major business processes, enhanced classroom technology, and opened the first virtual reality lab in the region. Lehman was cited as an exemplar in the 2018 Horizon Report for its innovative Lehman 360 digital platform. Ron is a fellow of the EDUCAUSE/CLIR Frye (now Leading Change) Institute and was named in 2017 as one of the nation’s top technologists, transformers, and trailblazers by the Center for Digital Education. Ron previously served as first deputy commissioner of New York City's information technology agency where he was selected by Government Technology Magazine as one of the nation's leading individuals redefining and advancing technology's role in government. 

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