Overview

March 30
10AM PT, 1PM ET

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Is your current monitoring platform built for today’s hybrid, security-first, AI-driven environment — or yesterday’s infrastructure?

State and local governments are navigating aging systems, cloud migrations, expanding cybersecurity mandates and rising expectations for always-on digital services. Yet many IT teams still rely on fragmented tools for infrastructure, network devices, logs and security monitoring. The result: siloed visibility, slower incident response, increased risk exposure and growing operational overhead.

Modernization today requires more than tool consolidation. It demands a shift toward AI-powered, autonomous operations that reduce manual effort and enable teams to operate at greater speed and scale.

Join this webinar for a practical discussion on how agencies can evaluate modern alternatives to legacy monitoring platforms — and what a unified observability and security strategy looks like in practice. Drawing from real-world public sector use cases, we’ll explore how agencies are consolidating tools, reducing blind spots and strengthening operational resilience while embedding intelligence directly into their operations.

You’ll learn:

  • How to consolidate infrastructure, network, log, and security monitoring into a unified platform that enables intelligent, cross-domain visibility
  • What AI-powered observability looks like in action, including automated signal correlation, noise reduction, anomaly detection and faster root cause identification
  • How autonomous AI capabilities can reduce operational overhead, improve resilience and help agencies scale securely without increasing headcount

Speakers

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Ryan Gault

Senior Director, SLED, Datadog

Ryan Gault is Regional Director, SLED East at Datadog, where he leads strategic partnerships and drives digital transformation for state, local government, and education organizations across the Eastern U.S. At Datadog, Ryan helps public sector teams harness observability to improve system performance, security, and operational resilience, enabling faster problem resolution and better service delivery. He frequently speaks on IT modernization, unified monitoring, and best practices for leveraging real-time analytics to meet evolving mission-critical needs. Ryan’s leadership and insights support agencies in navigating on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments to achieve measurable impact.

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Michael Dent

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Michael has more than three decades of experience in public-sector cybersecurity, technology leadership, and digital risk governance. He served as the founding Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Fairfax County Government, Virginia, from 2002 to 2025, where he led the development of a resilient cybersecurity program that supported essential government operations and public trust for more than 1.3 million residents and 13,000 employees.

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Morgan Wright — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Morgan is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, national security and intelligence. He currently serves as Chief Security Advisor for SentinelOne, and is the chief technology analyst for several major cable news organizations. Morgan's landmark testimony before Congress on Healthcare.gov changed how the government collected personally identifiable information. Previously Morgan was a Senior Advisor in the US State Department Antiterrorism Assistance Program, the Senior Law Enforcement Advisor for the 2012 Republican National Convention, taught behavioral analysis at the National Security Agency and spent a year teaching the FBI how to conduct internet investigations. In addition to 18 years in state and local law enforcement as a highly decorated state trooper and detective, Morgan has developed solutions in defense, justice and intelligence for the largest technology companies in the world including Cisco, SAIC, Unisys and Alcatel-Lucent/Bell Labs.