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Government agencies today face familiar but growing challenges: rising demand, shrinking budgets, workforce constraints, and ever-evolving technologies like AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. Traditional hiring and reskilling models can't keep pace. But cross-skilling offers a strategic solution.</p>
<p>AI is changing everything, including what it means to be a tech professional. As fields become multidisciplinary, the boundaries between skill sets are fading, making it harder to define what’s needed to succeed. To help chart the way forward when change is the only constant,<br />
we’ve gathered insights from Pluralsight’s community of 2,500+ expert authors and combined them with insights from 1,500 tech executives, IT practitioners, and business professionals to uncover the top tech trends, tools, and skills you need to know to get ahead in 2026.</p>
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For state & local government (SLG) agencies to maintain operational efficiency, enhance security and meet the increasing demands of the public, they must modernize their IT. Learn how Ivanti’s solutions centralize management of IT assets and services, ensuring interoperability with existing IT stacks and eliminating redundancies.</p>
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The proliferation of cyber risks across Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensors and mobile devices can cripple essential services and undermine the credibility of government. Deploying a unified endpoint management (UEM) technology, which provides a centralized interface for securing and visualizing device fleets, can help agencies defeat the latest cybercrime tactics.</p>
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In recent guidance, the White House issued a comprehensive Executive Order (EO) aimed at strengthening and promoting the Nation’s cybersecurity. Notably, among the key measures introduced is the requirement for encrypted DNS protocols that ensure the confidentiality and integrity of DNS traffic. This recognizes DNS as a critical frontline security control, emphasizing its significance in cybersecurity defense-in-depth strategy.<br />
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Learn how Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection (ADP) provides strong support for encrypted DNS traffic, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of DNS communications.</p>
<p>Federal agencies face relentless cyberattacks leveraging domains—phishing, spoofing and command and control—to compromise systems and exfiltrate sensitive data. Traditional defenses often miss these domain-based threats, making DNS-layer intelligence a cornerstone of any Zero Trust strategy. The Infoblox Threat Defense™ Fast Track Program delivers enterprise-grade DNS-layer protection in a lightweight, cost-efficient and high-value model that ensures no customer data is sent to Infoblox.</p>
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Learn what changed in CJIS 6.0 and how those changes impact access management for state and local agencies. This whitepaper outlines new requirements for MFA, monitoring, shared devices, and third-party access, with practical guidance on meeting compliance without slowing operations.</p>
<p>As digital expectations rise, agencies must move beyond basic information sharing and deliver personalized, data-driven public experiences. This guide introduces the Government Experience Framework, a four-phase model built to expand audience reach, understand people’s needs, delver meaningful engagement, and measure outcomes with precision.</p>
<p>As government increasingly turn to AI to improve service delivery, success depends on less on the technology itself and more on the quality, structure, and consistency of the content powering it. This guide provides an essential roadmap that help agencies establish the right groundwork before implementing conversational AI tools.</p>
<p>State and local governments and educational institutions face distinct cybersecurity challenges: constrained budgets, aging infrastructure, and a diverse user base. These factors create significant vulnerabilities, leaving organizations more susceptible to cyberattacks, particularly as malicious actors increasingly exploit AI to accelerate their tactics.</p>
<p>At the same time, AI can also serve as a powerful defense. By working with vendors that bring extensive public sector experience and solutions compatible with legacy systems, organizations can overcome critical barriers. Prioritizing ease of use, enabling diverse device management, automating detection and response, and upholding strong data privacy standards help close the gap between limited resources and rising threats.</p>
<p>Fortinet offers a suite of AI-powered solutions, such as FortiAI embedded in the Fortinet Security Fabric, designed to help protect state and local agencies<br />
and educational institutions. With the right strategy and tools, public sector organizations can harness AI to strengthen their defenses and reduce risk.</p>
<p>The Pennsylvania Legislative Data Processing Center (LDPC) is the IT support structure on which the commonwealth’s legislative business is built. This means the Pennsylvania LDPC is crucial to ensuring that the business of the commonwealth gets done. Two years ago, the LDPC was grappling with network problems, and its firewall vendor was not particularly helpful in finding a solution. </p>
<p>Download this Case Study to learn how the PA Legislature was able to boost network security and performance with Fortinet. </p>
<p>Stateful hash-based signature (HBS) schemes provide quantum-resistant digital signing for software and firmware. Standardized by NIST in SP 800-208, LMS/HSS and XMSS use one-time keys to ensure strong security. Under NSA’s CNSA 2.0, organizations are urged to adopt HBS now for code signing due to urgency, established standards, and proven cryptographic resilience ahead of future quantum threats. Download this white paper to learn more.</p>
<p>The rapid growth of data has intensified security risks for Large Language Model (LLM) use cases handling sensitive information. Thales addresses these challenges with the CipherTrust Data Security Platform, protecting data at rest, in transit, and during execution. The solution secures LLM backends, prompts, and responses, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows, using transparent encryption and strong access controls to preserve data confidentiality and integrity.</p>
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Government needs PQC solutions that work at Internet scale, supporting legacy and modern systems that protect and support their citizens. In this session, we explore ways to advance post-quantum protection today, without waiting for specialized quantum hardware or compromising on security. We'll share real-world deployment statistics and discuss our vision for making PQC accessible across the entire internet, not just for specialized systems.</p>
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Cloudflare is a pioneer in PQC, focusing on research, development, and standardization efforts since 2017. Currently, more than one-third of human-generated traffic on our network is protected with post-quantum cryptography. This proactive approach addresses future security concerns, as Cloudflare's quantum-safe Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions are specifically engineered to safeguard data transmitted across the public Internet against potential threats from quantum computing advancements that could compromise traditional cryptography. Learn more about how our PQC preparedness ensures government agencies can depend on Cloudflare to transition Internet connections to post-quantum cryptography, eliminating the need to upgrade each corporate application or system individually.</p>
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Quantum computing is forcing a shift in how products are built, evaluated, and trusted. The PQC Advantage shows tech vendors how post-quantum cryptography is becoming a competitive requirement, and how product teams can lead the transition. Download the eBook to understand the questions your customers will ask and how to stay ahead.</p>
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Your encryption will break. This SANS product review shows how Phio TX achieved zero-downtime algorithm swaps in real-world testing. Discover the out-of-band key delivery architecture that works with your existing gear to become quantum-resilient.</p>
