API Webinar Series: Advanced Operations—Contracting, Legal, and IT Security

On-Demand Webinar 

NOTE: Large files will take more time to download.

• Webinar recording Part 1: APIs 301: Advanced Operations—Contracting, Legal, and IT Security (WMV, 48.8 MB, 34 minutes, October 2012)
• Webinar recording Part 2: APIs 301: Advanced Operations—Contracting, Legal, and IT Security (WMV, 32 MB, 24 minutes, October 2012)
• Presentation slides: An Introduction to API Security (PDF, 1.49 MB, 11 slides, October 2012)
• Presentation slides: Legal Considerations for Consuming & Producing APIs
• Transcript: API Webinar Series: Advanced Operations—Contracting, Legal, and IT Security (PDF, 134 KB, 12 pages, October 2012)

Description 

In this fourth installment of our API webinar series, the focus will shift from agency case studies to a review of the common concerns agencies have as use of APIs in government becomes more widespread. Experts from FCC and GSA, along with one of the Presidential Innovation Fellows, will explain how to understand, plan for, and easily address the contracting, legal, and security concerns with APIs. They will also demonstrate how the existing structures agencies already have in place are capable of supporting API production. This webinar will be moderated by Gray Brooks, Senior API Strategist, at GSA's Digital Services Innovation Center.

What You'll Learn 

This webinar will teach you how to:

• Successfully procure API–first projects
• Adjust existing contracts to better focus them on API work
• Address common legal questions
• Address recurring API security concerns  

About the Presenters 

Ben Balter is a Gov 2.0 evangelist working to modernize federal government, an open–source developer passionate about the disruptive power of technology, and a J.D./M.B.A. candidate at the George Washington University. Currently, Ben is a Presidential Innovation Fellow, working on the 'MyGov' technology program. 

He previously worked at the OMB and the CFPB and served as a New Media Fellow at the FCC. At the FCC, he played a central role in the renovation of FCC.gov and several other priority initiatives.

Gray Brooks is the Senior API Strategist at the GSA as part of the agency's recently launched Digital Services Innovation Center. His role in the Center is to promote the role of Web services in government and to support federal agencies in the implementation of the Digital Government Strategy's milestones.

Prior to GSA, Gray served at the FCC for the last 3 years as part of the digital team overhauling the agency's Web presence and standing up its current Drupal site.

Alejandro Caceres supports the re–built FCC.gov through advanced security analysis and associated services. As the head Computer Network Operations (CNO) Engineer at Lunarline, Inc., he is the lead developer and engineer for a number of CNO–focused products. These products include tools intended for use by the US Intelligence Community for computer network attack and defense.  

As Lunarline's Web Application Penetration Testing Subject Matter Expert, he worked to directly support penetration and vulnerability assessment tests of major organizations, including the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, DOT, and other companies.

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