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Federal agencies are accelerating AI and digital modernization efforts, but workforce leaders say outdated hiring models and limited visibility into skills are now constraining mission success. In this FedScoop-produced podcast, Cliff Purkey of Workday Government and Alicia Dube of Groundswell explain why “talent debt” now rivals technical debt, how unified workforce data can improve mission readiness, and what it takes to shift from static job roles to skills-based, people-first workforce modernization.
Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer for HPE Networking, discusses how federal agencies are rethinking network modernization in the face of rising complexity, new security demands, and the accelerating influence of AI. Friday shares what he’s hearing from federal IT leaders about their most urgent challenges—cloud migration hurdles, stringent security requirements like FedRAMP and FIPS, and the staffing constraints shaping today’s modernization efforts. He also breaks down the technology trends driving HPE’s approach, including the shift to real-time AI-ops, the organizational changes required to fully leverage agentic AI, and how HPE’s acquisition of Juniper Networks strengthens the push toward a “self-driving network.”
Todd Schroeder of Databricks explains how AI and recent tech innovations enable federal agencies to bring AI to widely distributed data, instead of moving data to applications, reducing costs, improving security and accelerating decision making.
Deloitte's Ed Van Buren and Google Public Sector's Amina Al Sherif discuss why agentic AI is essential for agencies striving to scale operations, lower costs and enhance efficiency. This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for FedScoop and sponsored by Deloitte.
In a conversation with SNG's Wyatt Kash, Salesforce Industry Advisor for Public Sector Transformation Mia Jordan discusses the need for constituent engagement platforms that are secure, unified, and built for how government operates. Sponsored by Salesforce.
In a conversation with SNG's Wyatt Kash, Salesforce EVP Paul Tatum says the time is right for agencies to explore AI agents to enhance service delivery and internal workflows. Sponsored by Salesforce.
Datadog CISO Emilio Escobar joins SNG host Wyatt Kash in a sponsored podcast discussion on how federal agencies must leverage comprehensive observability and monitoring to overcome escalating cyber threats. This segment was sponsored by Datadog.
Cloudera Government Solutions President Rob Carey joins SNG host Wyatt Kash in a sponsored podcast discussion on how best to ensure the trustworthiness — as well as the security and privacy — of the data agencies rely upon to drive AI solutions and, ultimately, mission success. This segment was sponsored by Cloudera.
Modernized workforce management systems are essential to deploying the right skills and improving the operational agility of federal agencies, say DOJ CIO Melinda Rogers and Workday’s Lynn Martin.
Outdated federal human resources platforms increasingly hinder agency recruiting and training, say OPM’s Steve Krauss and Workday’s Matthew Cornelis. In a new FedScoop interview, they discuss how cloud-native solutions and unified data standards enhance workforce agility, cut costs and foster cross-agency collaboration.
Former NGA geospatial intelligence analysis director Sue Kalweit — now managing director of Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory's government practice — discusses how Deloitte and Google help analysts view the potential geopolitical and national security implications of the changing Arctic landscape due to climate change. This podcast is hosted by Scoop News Group's Wyatt Kash for FedScoop and sponsored by Deloitte.
When U.S. federal agencies need to deploy a new software application or information system, they must first ensure it complies with a comprehensive set of government-approved security standards — and ultimately get a signed ATO or Authorization to Operate. That process can be cumbersome and makes it hard to introduce agile, or more frequent, software upgrades. Guests: Dave Raley, CX digital program manager at Marine Corps Community Services and Ryan Pratt, chief executive officer at Raven SolutionsModerator: Wyatt Kash, SVP Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
Governments must adapt to more digital, efficient and transparent contracting processes in an era where digital advancements are reshaping our work. However, integration with existing federal systems can be a significant challenge in government contracting. Sean Garcia, director of professional services for the public sector at Icertis, sheds light on the challenges and opportunities faced by federal IT leaders in adopting more efficient and transparent contracting processes.Guest: Sean Garcia, Director of Professional Services, Public Sector, IcertisHost: Wyatt Kash, SVP Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
Organizations are confronting questions about how artificial intelligence will apply to their operations, employees and customers. Whether it means a significant pivot in their operating models or an opportunity to scale and broaden their offerings, all organizations must assess their readiness to deploy AI responsibly without perpetuating harm to their stakeholders and the world. Cindi Carter, global chief information security officer for Check Point, shares her insights on what steps agencies should consider in realizing AI benefits.Guest: Cindi Carter, Global CISO, Check PointHost: Wyatt Kash, SVP Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
The adoption of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on government agencies is stirring much debate across the federal government. One of the critical questions at the center of that debate is the quality of the data being used in AI and how much to ensure that data can be trusted. In this interview Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions Inc., explores AI's challenges and opportunities.
Guest: Rob Carey, President, Cloudera Government Solutions, Inc. Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
It’s hard to imagine getting through the workday without relying on a mobile device. But that also makes them a valuable target for threat actors and an increasing concern for enterprise IT security administrators. A new virtualization platform improves malware research and honeypot techniques to defend against malware attacks.
Guest: Amanda Gorton, Co-founder and CEO, Corellium Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Corellium.
In web application security, compromised credentials are responsible for 80% of breaches. This has highlighted the need to replace passwords with more effective security methods. Passwordless authentication methods offer a faster, more secure, and hassle-free way to protect our digital lives. Okta's Federal CSO discusses the rise of passwordless authentication and the need for enhanced web application security.
Guest: Sean Frazier, Federal Chief Security Officer, Okta Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Okta.
AWS’s US federal civilian and health director, Christian Hoff, highlights how NOAA, Customs and Border Protection and other agencies are using the cloud to advance their high-performance computing, data management and AI efforts — and what to look for at the upcoming AWS Summit in Washington, D.C.Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
U.S. civilian, defense and intelligence agencies require reliable, high-capacity IT networks capable of moving data around the globe. But as cloud computing comes to dominate agency IT operations, the need for ubiquitous, cross-domain security — from the edge to the cloud — and the importance of artificial intelligence to automate IT operations have become ever more critical. One organization that has played a leading role in advancing cloud computing, global IT security to the edge, and AI is Microsoft.Guest: Rick Wagner, President, Microsoft FederalHost: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News GroupThis podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Microsoft.
In a recent FedScoop survey, more than half of respondents indicated that their organization had experienced a network or system outage in the past, and 44% experienced a network or data breach.Norman St. Laurent, federal public sector marketing manager at Cisco, shares that these kinds of network security incidents are often likely to affect federal agencies because of the size of their networks, the procurement process to update infrastructure, and the hiring challenges within the government to bring on qualified help.Guest: Norman St. Laurent, federal public sector marketing manager, CiscoHost: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News GroupThis podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Cisco.
Cross-Agency Priority goals are a tool used by the federal government to accelerate progress on presidential priority areas where implementation requires active collaboration among multiple agencies. One of those priorities involves leveraging federal data as a strategic asset.Celonis' Chris Radich discusses what government leaders need to think about to be more effective in their data initiatives.Guest: Chris Radich, VP of Public Sector Solution Engineering, CelonisHost: Wyatt Kash, SVP of Content Strategy, Scoop News GroupThis podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Celonis.
As a government agency's modernization journey evolves, network-as-a-service (NaaS) can enhance their ability to adopt new technologies. It’s essentially a platform that provides secure network resources and a cloud consumption model for an agency over time. It reduces the cost of connectivity and infrastructure and provides scalability and flexibility—including security, automation and visibility across the network platform, according to Verizon Director of Domain Specialists Ray Bauer. “[NaaS] is a business model and enables digital evolution at scale,” he says. “It connects users to their application and the services they want—from IoT devices to network edge compute services. And it provides a scalable model for provisioning and budgeting for agencies, making it easy for them to transform,” he adds. Guest: Ray Bauer, Director of Domain Specialists, VerizonHost: Wyatt Kash, SVP of Content Strategy, Scoop News GroupThis podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Verizon.
Defense Department officials recently released a public version of their zero-trust strategy and roadmap to hold DOD organizations accountable to meet the deadline for achieving a zero-trust architecture. In an exclusive interview, Cisco’s Andy Stewart joins FedScoop to talk about how an effective zero-trust strategy should go beyond technical capabilities and also include organizational culture, building efficiencies across security and IT operations teams and how both processes and capabilities interact with each other.Guest: Andy Stewart, national security and government senior strategist for cybersecurity at CiscoThis podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Cisco.
Moving from legacy to modernized platforms has been challenging for agencies across the government. But three new awards totaling $36 million from GSA’s Technology Modernization Fund promise to ease legacy IT issues for the U.S. Army, the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a chief technology official at Leidos.
“We see a journey, a journey of maturation and a journey of conversion,” says Leidos' Sandra Lopez. “It's very hard to consume the services and go from one mode of operation to another. It requires a cultural change—a cultural change in the contracting as well as in the consumption side."
Guest: Sandra Lopez, Enterprise and Cyber Solutions Operation CTO, Leidos
Host: Francis Rose, The Daily Scoop Podcast, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for FedScoop and underwritten by Leidos.
Leaders of every military service list computing at the edge as one of their leading capabilities requirements. The next level of data transfer is edge device to edge device.
David Hoon, chief technology officer at Norseman Defense Technologies, explains how military services can make that transformation possible.
Guest: David Hoon, CTO, Norseman Defense Technologies
Host: Francis Rose, Host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for FedScoop and underwritten by Norseman Defense Technologies.
While nearly every agency is making progress embracing digital infrastructure, moving to the cloud brings inherent security concerns which require a modernized approach to security, including solutions like secure access service edge (SASE), says Verizon's Scott Andersen.
Guest: Scott Anderson, Enterprise Architect, Verizon Host: Francis Rose, Host of The Daily Scoop Podcast, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Verizon.
Responding to cybersecurity threats for much of the past 30 years, says former Navy CIO Rob Carey, invariably meant managing a combination of firewall, intrusion detection and identity management tools — and a growing array of data.
The problem, says Carey, is that “the tools we use in cyber today…are not necessarily big data platforms that can deal with petabytes at a time, or even more, and still be effective.”
Guest: Rob Carey, CEO of Cloudera Government Solutions
Host: Francis Rose, Host of The Daily Scoop Podcast, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Cloudera.
It has been seven years since the Pentagon launched the Defense Innovation Unit as a fast-track way to discover and adopt emerging commercial technologies for military use. Despite a succession of DUI leaders and several reboots, only a handful of technology projects have made the leap from Silicon Valley startups to DOD's behemoth operations.
Guest: Brian MacCarthy, vice president for Booz Allen Ventures
Host: Francis Rose, host of The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Booz Allen Hamilton.
Fewer than 10 percent of federal employees are under 30 years old, and at some agencies, more than half of the employees are eligible to retire. In a recent Daily Scoop Podcast, Worldwide Assurance for Employees of Public Agencies (WAEPA) CEO Shane Canfield discusses the changing composition of the workforce and what federal agencies are doing to hire and retain talent.
Canfield highlights the importance of the workforce having a global and holistic view of the agency or department. “[For example] at the Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the younger employees are assigned one project which works its way through the entire agency top to bottom; this gives people a lens into what happens at all levels of the federal government because not every single job has the same responsibility, the same opportunity to really drive decisions and direction. That is tremendously important.”
Guest: Shane Canfield, CEO, WAEPA
Host: Francis Rose, Host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by WAEPA.
Federal law enforcement agencies have seized more than $30 million in cryptocurrency North Korean hackers stole earlier this year. The increase in indictments and prosecutions regarding cryptocurrency is a measure of success for updated requirements and analytics products, says Chainalysis’ Brian Capra.
However, more awareness about how cryptocurrency is used to finance terrorist and cybercriminal activities is still needed, says Capra.
Capra gives his insight into how industry players can help government leaders access to up-to-date intelligence around crypto activities.
Guest: Brian Capra, director of strategic applications for Chainalysis
Host: Francis Rose, host of The Daily Scoop Podcast, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Chainalysis.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a new training module for veterans and their families to access mental health research and information through Trailhead, a free online learning platform. Salesforce's Mike Nolan highlights the module, “Veteran Mental Health and Resiliency Resources,” is focused on educating veterans and their families about suicide risks and prevention.
Guest: Mike Nolan, senior manager of the military recruiting program, Salesforce
Host: Francis Rose, Host, The Daily Scoop Podcast, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Salesforce.
The Internal Revenue Service is just one of the many agencies that will receive funds from the Inflation Reduction Act to help improve their IT systems. According to one industry IT expert, improving customer experience delivery will be an important end goal of that transformation.
“This has been a continual theme from government to really equalize the experience that we see in our personal lives with all kinds of interactions, whether it be retailers, banks, etc.,” says Paul Tatum on a recent episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast. “Government is really putting their money where their mouth is trying to raise their game with that personal experience.”
Guest: Paul Tatum, executive vice president of global public sector at Salesforce
Host: Francis Rose, Host, The Daily Scoop Podcast, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Salesforce.
Threat intelligence represents a critical component in protecting the government’s vast data resources. But as agencies rely increasingly on the cloud and complex web applications, threat intelligence on tactics and adversaries is taking on greater importance for government agencies.
Splunk cybersecurity expert shares his insights on the intersection between threat intelligence and automation and what that means for the government’s cloud journey.
Guest: Patrick Coughlin, Group Vice President, Security Market, Splunk Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for FedScoop and underwritten by Splunk. Listen to the full podcast conversation and the entire series “Leveraging the cloud to ensure mission resilience” on FedScoop.
An element of the success of the president’s management agenda is data, and data-driven processes have never been more critical to a mission. But how can leaders gain actionable insights from their data? A Celonis executive argues that being data-driven has moved beyond simply unlocking datasets—it's about mining data in the enterprise to drive unique insights about business processes.
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Celonis.
Guest: Chris Radich, vice president of solution engineering at Celonis
Host: Francis Rose, host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
Splunk Chief Technical Advisor Lisa Palmer highlights lessons public sector agencies can learn from the banking, service and retailing sectors to improve both security and innovation. Palmer describes how Latin America’s largest fintech bank, a leading roadside assistance provider, and Papa John’s Pizza all benefitted from using cloud-based tools from Splunk.
Guest: Lisa Palmer, Chief Technical Advisor, Splunk Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
This episode is part of a FedScoop podcast series, “Leveraging the cloud to ensure mission resilience." Look for more coverage on www.fedscoop.com/listen
Despite the many challenges federal CIOs face trying to modernize and secure their agency’s IT systems, this is a “perfect time” to be leading technology changes in federal government, says a former Pentagon deputy CIO now advising agencies on IT strategies.
Guest: Juliana Vida, Group Vice President and Public Sector Chief Strategy Advisor, Splunk Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for FedScoop and underwritten by Splunk.
Public sector agencies are gaining new efficiencies from migrating their operations to the cloud but often fail to realize the broader benefits cloud computing offers, say two cloud advisory specialists in a new FedScoop podcast.
They also highlight why Splunk customers are finding greater success moving from on-premises software to Splunk’s cloud-based software-as-a-service offerings that can also help public sector organizations collect and manage data across multiple cloud services.
Guests: Tom Stoner is senior director, cloud advisory and an area vice president of cloud sales at Splunk. Lee Tamassia is a cloud specialist at Splunk.
Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for FedScoop and underwritten by Splunk.
While the Biden administration’s directives on national cybersecurity have given federal agencies an explicit roadmap to fortifying security, the chief cybersecurity advisor for a global technology provider argues that agencies must also keep operational resiliency in clear view.
“You can’t think solely about security. And you can't just think solely about resilience. You have to have both,” says Paul Kurtz, a former White House National Security Council director.
Guest: Paul Kurtz, Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, Splunk
Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for FedScoop and underwritten by Splunk.
The main pillars of the president’s management agenda include rebuilding the federal workforce and improving customer experience. According to one workforce expert, by treating employees like their customers, organizations can begin realizing these initiatives from the Biden administration.
“It also supports this concept of business resiliency, when you can start to treat your employees as arguably the greatest asset an organization has,” says Sean Kennedy.
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Salesforce.
Guest: Sean Kennedy, vice president and general manager of health and life sciences at Salesforce
Host: Francis Rose, host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
Splunk’s government affairs chief highlights public sector predictions and strategies in a new six-part podcast series on mission resilience.
“Whatever threats we face today, and in the future, data is going to be the primary resource for countering it,” argues a former federal security and counterterrorism expert in this FedScoop podcast series, “Leveraging the cloud to ensure mission resilience.”
“The key is finding the right data, having the tools to understand what the data is trying to tell us and then having the ability to act on it quickly and with confidence,” says Splunk's Bill Wright. “Organizations that understand that are going to be better able to protect themselves and recover more quickly.”
Guest: Bill Wright, Senior Director, North America Government Affairs, Splunk
Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
Look for more episodes of “Leveraging the cloud to ensure mission resilience” on www.fedscoop.com/listen
As mission readiness is a top priority for any organization, many government leaders are looking to support the structure behind it. According to one former senior executive at the Department of Defense, financial readiness is a key driver for mission readiness.
“The Defense Department is focused on improving fiscal decision making and focusing specifically on how you ensure the optimization of the defense budget for the warfighter,” says Michael Parker, vice president of business development executive for DOD at Salesforce. “Are we delivering the greatest capability and capacity we can with the precious dollars that have been obligated to the Defense Department?”
Guest: Michael Parker, vice president of business development executive for DOD, Salesforce
Host: Francis Rose, host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Salesforce.
Government agencies continue to implement and comply with cybersecurity requirements from the White House and other federal organizations. According to one cybersecurity expert, they must also be cognizant of ongoing threat actors.
While government agencies are still in the early stages of implementing zero-trust architecture, it’s imperative that leaders “get organized and change processes, change systems, hire the right folks so that we can get more secure,” says Mark Ralls, President and Chief Operating Officer at Invicti Security, on a recent episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast. He says that finding the right technology can be a crucial next step in securing an agency’s assets.
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Invicti Security.
Guest: Mark Ralls, President and COO, Invicti Security
Host: Francis Rose, Host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
As the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity Approaches, government agencies are still in the early stages of their zero-trust journeys. According to one cybersecurity expert, it’s important for government to be patient throughout this process.
“It's a fiction to think that there is a ‘big bang’ by which they can make the entire enterprise — every user group, every application, every data set — be compliant with the zero trust performance mandate,” says Dan Prieto.
Guest: Dan Prieto, head of public sector cybersecurity strategy for Google Cloud
Host: Francis Rose, host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Google Cloud.
Federal agencies are trying to slow the flow of cybersecurity talent leaving government in addition to bringing new talent in. According to one solutions expert, the cybersecurity field must rethink how the next generation is being taught and welcomed to the field.
“They understand a lot of these [cybersecurity] concepts, they just don’t have the hands on,” says Eric Irizarry. “We don’t teach those concepts in school. A lot of the school programs are about programming, understanding applications and stuff like that, but we don't teach the piping of what's the internet, the network.”
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by MFGS, Inc.
Guest: Eric Irizarry, Solutions Architect, MFGS, Inc.
Host: Francis Rose, Host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
Whether it be to save time, to save money, or a lack of people in the workforce, pre-made technology solutions are becoming increasingly popular for the federal government. According to one IT expert, this is helping government organizations accelerate efforts including cloud adoption.
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by AWS in collaboration with Applied Insight and Boeing.
Guests: Chad Beaudin, chief engineer for DevSecOps at Boeing and Chris Smith, director of engineering at Applied Insight
Host: Francis Rose, host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
As organizations begin to transition out of pandemic response, many will use the zero-trust architecture adopted during remote work to continue bolstering their security posture. According to one chief security officer, this means prioritizing endpoint protection.
“If you think about the core pillars and constructs of zero trust, one of the more important ones is the endpoint,” says Sean Frazier, federal CSO at Okta. “Almost everything these days with regard to endpoint is mobility.”
Guest: Sean Frazier, Federal Chief Security Officer, Okta
Host: Francis Rose, Host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Okta.
Cybersecurity has quickly become a top priority for agencies across government. According to a former FedRAMP director, budget constraints are making IT modernization projects, like cloud adoption, a driver for cybersecurity upgrades.
“When you look at it conservatively, only 10-to-15% of the budget on IT is spent on R&D, and maybe another 10-to-15% spent on modernization,” says Matt Goodrich of Salesforce. “Add in cybersecurity risks and that’s not enough money”
Guest: Matt Goodrich, principal solutions architect, Salesforce
Host: Francis Rose, Host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Salesforce.
Federal agencies are now tasked with rapidly integrating the customer experience and cybersecurity components of the President’s Management Agenda. According to one IT expert, being able to do this at speed will allow organizations to consistently tie together cybersecurity and operational capabilities.
“Really driving the ability to reach compliance and operational security in context will make a huge difference,” says Arlette Hart, master solution architect at Leidos and former FBI chief information security officer. “And it’ll help ensure that the people who are using the systems really understand the safety and have reassurance that their information is secure and they can use these systems securely and safely.”
Guest: Arlette Hart, master solution architect, Leidos
Host: Francis Rose, host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Leidos.
As organizations begin releasing their back-to-office plans, human capital and technology leaders in government are grappling with finding the right balance in the hybrid work world. According to one technology evangelist, it’s most important for these leaders to let people be the most productive in whatever environment they choose to work in.
“What we’re seeing is bringing people greater autonomy and empowerment in their work,” says Alexis Bonnell, chief technology evangelist at Google Cloud, on a recent episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast. “Finding that autonomy, but also really enabling people to work remotely, and most importantly, to have the technology to allow them to thrive while doing it.”
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Google Cloud.
Government agencies are handling more data than ever, increasing the need for tools to analyze that data in a timely manner. This ability is a top priority for IT leaders across government, according to Kinetica Chief Executive Officer Nima Negabhan.
“What's more of an emerging trend is having that data constantly streaming in, and being able to actually analyze it in a meaningful way is what government enterprise IT professionals and organization leaders are looking for,” says Negabhan. “They're looking for that single pane of glass that shows them the latest data, where they have the ability to actually do analysis at the speed of thought.”
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Kinetica in collaboration with Amazon Web Services.
Through executive order and the Biden-Harris presidential management agenda, government agencies are being influenced to improve their customer experience with the American public. According to one IT expert, the transformation was jump-started by the shift to the virtual environment during the pandemic.
“Huge gains are being made in the mission in terms of citizen-facing tools that allow citizens to interact with the government more efficiently,” says Salesforce Digital Transformation Executive Mia Jordan. “The pandemic propelled us forward, probably light years on, where if there hadn't been that push to do business online and virtually, it probably would have taken us another couple of years to get to where we are now.”
Guest: Mia Jordan, digital transformation executive, Salesforce
Host: Francis Rose, host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group for The Daily Scoop Podcast and underwritten by Salesforce.
Last year, President Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity put the transition to zero-trust architecture at the top of mind for IT leaders across government. According to one cybersecurity expert, it begins with organizations putting in place technologies that can support zero trust across the enterprise.
“A tactical approach is beginning to say, OK, even as we have got what seems like an infinite amount of legacy technologies, proceeding with technologies that enable those zero trust principles is very much the way to go,” says Alexander Romero, director of strategy of the Chief Technologist Office at VMware End User Computing. “And wherever possible then, begin to transition out of the old and into the new.”
Guest: Alexander Romero, Director of Strategy, Chief Technologist Office, VMware End User Computing
Host: Francis Rose, Host, The Daily Scoop Podcast
This podcast was produced by FedScoop and underwritten by VMware.
Phishing attacks are becoming an increasingly common avenue for threat actors to deploy malware and ransomware. According to one cybersecurity expert, an organization’s first line of defense against these attacks is getting all employees to realize they are high-value targets.
“What organizations can do to help bolster cybersecurity within their organization is educating their employees that even if you don't necessarily believe you could be targeted, you might be surprised to learn that you could be used as a pawn in a much larger scheme,” says Kristina Balaam, senior threat researcher for threat intelligence at Lookout.
This podcast is sponsored by Lookout and underwritten by FedScoop.
Guest: Kristina Balaam, senior threat researcher, threat intelligence, Lookout
Host: Francis Rose, The Daily Scoop Podcast
Listen to The Daily Scoop Podcast in full on www.fedscoop.com/the-daily-scoop-podcast/
Defense against cyberattacks is more than just updating technology and patching systems. While an organization can have the process and technology in place, the right cybersecurity culture is paramount, says Cybereason Chief Security Officer Sam Curry.
“The biggest problem in cybersecurity is a people problem,” Curry tells Francis Rose on The Daily Scoop Podcast. “It’s people on offense and it’s people on defense. If I have to characterize, on defense, the single biggest thing that would help most security departments, it is better alignment with the mission.”
This podcast is sponsored by Cybereason and underwritten by FedScoop.
Guest: Sam Curry, Chief Security Officer, Cybereason
Host: Francis Rose, The Daily Scoop Podcast
Listen to The Daily Scoop Podcast in full on www.fedscoop.com/the-daily-scoop-podcast/
With the continued cybersecurity push across government and industry, it is increasingly important for organizations to have proactive cyber plans in place. One private sector CTO recommends a combination of security checklists and security goals.
“New regulatory frameworks that are coming out are really focusing on impact as opposed to actions,” says Archis Gore, CTO at Polyverse. “Where the frustration with compliance versus real security always came from is when compliance dictates action, we have a problem.”
This podcast is sponsored by Polyverse in collaboration with AWS and underwritten by FedScoop.
Guest: Archis Gore, Chief Technology Officer, Polyverse
Host: Francis Rose, The Daily Scoop Podcast
Listen to The Daily Scoop Podcast in full on www.fedscoop.com/the-daily-scoop-podcast/
Federal agencies are starting to see significant advantages in reversing how they gather and analyze data to fuel their artificial intelligence efforts. Instead of pulling massive amounts of data into centralized data lakes for analysis, enterprises are staring to send analytics tools to the edge of their networks to parse localized data and then federate the results.
The change in approach represents a paradigm shift in how organizations are capturing and analyzing data, says Al Ford, who oversees artificial intelligence alliances in the federal government market at Dell EMC.
This podcast is sponsored by Dell Technologies.
Guest: Al Ford, Artificial Intelligence Alliances for Federal Government, Dell EMC Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
Look for more coverage of “IT Modernization in Government” on www.fedscoop.com/listen
The advent of containerized software services — and the emergence of Kubernetes to deploy and manage them – have played crucial roles in modernizing applications. But it has also unleashed a host of new opportunities for malicious actors to exploit misconfigurations and vulnerabilities inside these microservices, says Palo Alto Networks' Paul Fox.
That’s why he says federal agencies should take a closer look at a new technical report, released by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), that provides detailed guidance on how to harden Kubernetes containers and avoid common misconfigurations.
Guest: Paul Fox, Senior Product Manager, Palo Alto Networks Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
Look for more coverage of “IT Modernization in Government” on www.fedscoop.com/listen
With massive amounts of data being captured outside of data centers and at the edge, there is a growing need for organizations to use cloud to modernize edge computing environments. According to one cloud expert, this is driving the move for hybrid IT adoption across government and industry.
“What you see in the private sector is they want to deal with the data where it's generated, so they can get the fastest insights and so they don't have the expense of moving that data,” says Bill Burnham, chief technology officer for U.S. public sector at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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Cohesive and consistent messaging from the federal government is an important part of the push for agencies to implement zero trust architecture. Making sure the new processes are easy and accessible is just as important, says Peter Romness, cybersecurity programs lead, U.S. public sector, Cisco Systems.
“Users are seeing the need for more security, so they're willing to do things like multi-factor authentication, but also industry has made multi-factor authentication much easier,” says Romness.
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Guest: Peter Romness, Cybersecurity Programs Lead, U.S. Public Sector
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As government agencies continue to implement and adjust return to office plans, it is clear that remote work and hybrid work postures will continue to be part of day-to-day operations. With many factors remaining uncertain, it is important for organizations to remain willing and able to adjust when handling their workforce, says Stephen Ellis.
“There's so many intertwined elements in [return to office planning], I think that the key word to solving this knot is flexibility. Ultimately, that's the only way we're going to find some symbiotic place where things can work and work well,” says Ellis.
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Guest: Stephen Ellis, Government Solutions Lead, Zoom Video Communications
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The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted expectations of how and where federal employees work at most federal agencies. But what agency leaders may not have fully considered, warns a government network expert, is how agencies can ensure their employees have reliable connections from various hybrid locations, including their homes.
“In an office situation, if an employee's internet connection went down, they would be able to call the help desk and resolve the problem fairly quickly. But with home networks as the primary connection [for federal employees working remotely], organizations are now at the mercy of private service providers, and their ability to respond to internet issues,” says Tony Bardo.
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Guest: Tony Bardo, Assistant VP, Government Solutions, Hughes
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As agencies continue to embrace cloud solutions, the need to integrate systems has taken on new importance. At the same time, finding the right talent to help with cloud integration remains a challenge. That’s where a low-code, no-code integration platform-as-a-service model is becoming increasingly beneficial for agencies, says Public Sector Chief Technology Officer Joseph Flynn at Dell Boomi.
“Part of what makes [cloud integration] difficult is the explosive growth in [agencies’] applications and data. It challenges not only technical decision-making, but also business decisions, budgets and contracts,” says Flynn.
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Guest: Joseph Flynn, Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, Boomi
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Government agencies at the federal agencies have almost universally seen their long-term plans for IT upgrades put on a fast-track this past year in response to surges in demands to support remote workers and fulfill public services.
One factor that helped make that possible — and in many ways, has put agencies in a stronger position to modernize moving forward — was the increasing reliance on open architecture and hybrid cloud environments, according to IBM's Dan Chenok.
“What we saw in the last year was the introduction of changes that were predicted to occur over the next five to 10 years — in terms of networks, enabling distance work, teams coming together across multiple locations at the same time and the associated bandwidth and network capacity and cybersecurity steps that needed to be taken — and enable (those changes) to occur very quickly,” he says in a new podcast. Sponsored by IBM.
Guest: Dan Chenok, Executive Director at the IBM Center for the Business of Government
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Any natural disaster — be it hurricane, fire, earthquake of flood — has the potential to l disrupt communications. But for federal agencies and their field offices, it’s critical that they keep their lines of communication open so that they can serve their constituents.
The challenge, according to Tony Bardo, assistant vice president for government solutions at Hughes, is that “most agency networks are not built with as much redundancy and resiliency as they need to be to survive a disaster.”
Bardo explains that though critical sites, like data centers and office headquarters, are designed with alternate network paths, those pathways are most often terrestrial.
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The sharp uptick in successful cyber attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic serves as a stark reminder to government leaders that their existing security strategies still leave adversaries plenty of vulnerabilities to exploit.
According to former White House security advisor Dan Prieto, cyber attackers continue to find new ways to capitalize on weak points in legacy infrastructure and virtual private networks (VPN), compromise email and insert malicious code into software supply chains.
The increased pace and boldness of these attacks raises critical questions “about the metrics of what constitutes successful cyber security,” says Prieto.
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Guest: Dan Prieto, head of cybersecurity strategy for Google Cloud Public Sector.
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As agencies look to improve network performance and security, one approach that often gets overlooked involves converging the tools and data belonging to agency NOCs and SOCs — network operations centers and security operations centers.
Years of entrenched operating practices, budgeting and acquisition authorities, and cultural dispositions have tended to drive network and security operations teams down separate, albeit closely related, technology lanes. That has often led agency NOCs and SOCs to acquire similar data analytic tools and generate similar data but for different purposes. Agencies would be better served — by being able to improve both network performance and security — if they converged those resources, say two industry chief technology officers. Sponsored by Riverbed.
Guests: Marlin McFate, CTO, Public Sector and Vincent Berk, CTO and Chief Security Architect, Riverbed
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Google Cloud’s Gary Danoff shares the benefits agencies reap when they embrace virtual collaboration platforms and best-practices for those implementing hybrid-work strategies.
Agencies adopted a variety of collaboration platforms over the last year, creating new connections between humans and technology that allow them to shift seamlessly between working virtually and working in-person.
“I think government leaders should acknowledge that people are going to feel a little awkward about being able to come back to the office,” Gary Danoff explains. He says employees are looking for workplace structure that can help them return to a consistent way of collaborating with their team and virtual collaboration tools have a lot to offer. This podcast was produced by Scoop News Group and underwritten by Google Cloud.
Guest: Gary Danoff, Global Head of Google Workspace, Google Cloud
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Federal, state and local governments are still adapting to the consequences of COVID-19. But what many of them have discovered is that in the face of growing citizen demands, shifting administration priorities and budget uncertainties, it’s still possible to adopt new technologies relatively quickly to deliver digital services.
For Andrew Fairbanks, who leads a public sector team of more than 3,000 professionals for IBM Global Services, the ability for agencies to shift to new technologies was both remarkable and a testament to why agencies still need to modernize.
“I think there are really three principal drivers that I see in this acceleration,” he says in this podcast, where he discusses the drivers behind agencies' IT modernization goals today.
Guest: Andrew Fairbanks, Vice President, General Manager, IBM Services - Federal
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Artificial intelligence tools are increasingly being used by government agencies to meet their mission needs. This last year in particular, the need to help people remotely and respond to the public health crisis pushed many federal and state agency leaders to evaluate and implement AI tools.
Technology evangelist Alexis Bonnell worked alongside several agencies to imagine the “art of the possible” as they took significant steps towards AI and machine learning adoption.
Bonnell breaks down several myths about AI development and how public sector organizations have been able to implement simple and effective projects to improve mission outcomes in this podcast, produced by Scoop News Group and underwritten by Google Cloud.
Guest: Alexis Bonnell, Senior Business Executive, Emerging Technology Evangelist, Google
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection director Ed Mays and Dell Technologies’ John Garrett discuss what’s driving the need for increased edge computing resources.
They discuss the increase of users and devices on federal networks, in addition to the surge in data generation. That is driving a need for higher performing computing capabilities at the edge of their networks.
“As we get more and more of these embedded devices out there — and the possibilities of what AI is capable of expands — you have no choice but to do the compute at the edge,” says Garrett.
Guests: John Garrett (left), Senior Director, Federal Civilian, Dell EMC Ed Mays (right), Executive Director, Enterprise Data Management and Engineering Directorate, U.S. Customs and Border Protection;
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Throughout the public health crisis, cloud and artificial intelligence-enabled tools have been a great help to advancing research, collaboration and mission activities. Particularly encouraging is the way that public health leaders are able to share biological information across the globe, says Google Cloud’s Dr. Alexander Titus.
“I think that collaboration across science has always been pretty strong. But this has really shown us some of the strengths around how fast we can collaborate [together],” he says.
Titus joins us to discuss how AI will improve the way public health agencies make data-informed decisions and respond to public health needs. Sponsored by Google Cloud.
Guest: Dr. Alexander Titus, Strategy Leader, Health and Life Sciences, Google Cloud
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The volume and velocity of data generated by government continues to grow at astronomic rates. At the same time, federal agencies have a lot of legacy applications that need to be re-factored to take advantage of modern architectures
While government organizations continue to look for more effective ways to handle high-volume data management and analysis strategies, they can benefit from taking advantage of tools that have already been tried and tested within the private sector.
John Dillon, CEO of Aerospike points to companies like Verizon Media, which uses Aerospike’s platform to handle large scale data correlations at a significantly lower cost compared to past platforms in this FedScoop podcast. Sponsored by by Aerospike.
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The pandemic was a forcing agent causing agencies to rethink identity and how users access government resources and placed a greater emphasis on cloud-based services.
As a result, IT leaders are looking more holistically at how they manage identity across the enterprise network while still complying with federal identity, credential and access management (FICAM) rules.
Andrew Whelchel and Dmitry Kagansky join FedScoop to discuss strategies around modern identity and security in the cloud and how agencies can take advantage of FedRAMP-approved services to fast-track implementation. This podcast was sponsored by Okta and AWS.
Guests: Andrew Whelchel, Principal Sales Engineer, Okta Dmitry Kagansky, Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Government agencies have been trying to reduce their reliance on paper for decades. While Congress moved to speed up this process when it passed the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act in 2018, agencies are still processing millions of paper forms a year.
One of the many challenges agencies continue to face is that these processes also require new infrastructure, website updates and digital services to streamline the customer experience. Foxit's DeeDee Kato says there are challenges surrounding government's ability to digitize documents, however, there are alternatives to traditional PDF software that offer friendlier licensing terms and editing tools. Sponsored by Foxit.
Guest: DeeDee Kato, Senior Director, Marketing, Foxit Software
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Having a data strategy is not a "nice-to-have" anymore, rather it’s a "must-have" for federal agencies, according to Aileen Black. Agencies are making progress in incorporating principles and practices from the Federal Data Strategy, but many still struggle to provide trust in, and secure access to, government data.
“I have the opportunity see governments around the world. And the U.S. federal government is advanced relative to many of their international counterparts in implementing a data strategy, thanks to the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act and the work being done on the Federal Data Strategy by OMB,” says Black.
She discusses what 2020 taught organizations in terms of the importance of data and having an agile data strategy. Sponsored by Collibra and AWS.
Guest: Aileen Black, Senior Vice President for Sales, Collibra
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As the federal government transitions to a new administration, and new priorities, one initiative that’s expected to remain on track is the Federal Data Strategy — a set of principles, practices and action steps to make more productive use of federal data.
But where and how agencies move forward with their data strategies — and whether they get the IT funding they need — will play an important part in advancing the Biden administration’s priorities, say two federal government data experts in a new FedScoop podcast underwritten by NetApp and immixGroup.
Guests: Kristen Verderame, vice president of government relations at NetApp Jessica Parks, market intelligence analyst at immixGroup
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Data management platforms not only play a part in driving digital transformation in the public sector, but also represent a key factor in attracting talent into public service.
Brian Chidester says the future of government work is playing out across three different theaters: work, workforce and the workplace. Each one of them are key to improving the of delivery of government services.
Chidester says that while federal agencies have been charged with leveraging data to improve citizen services, having modern data management platforms — that enable the workforce and the work they do — sends an important signal when it comes to recruiting and retaining IT workers. Sponsored by OpenText.
Guest: Brian Chidester, Global Public Sector Marketing Executive for OpenText and host of “The Government Huddle Podcast."
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Cloud computing has given federal agencies newfound ability to run large-scale modeling and high-performance computing workloads that not that long ago required coveted time slots on supercomputers. But moving the massive data sets from agency data centers to the cloud still involves a lot of work. Data extraction charges can also be costly and until recently, latency was a significant issue.
That’s changing thanks to new capabilities available from a software solution that many federal agencies are already using on premises to help them manage those workloads.
Teams are already moving data between data centers, between office locations, between disaster recovery locations, and they've been using tools like NetApp’s SnapMirror, which replicates business-critical data at high speeds over local or wide area networks, ThunderCat Technology's CTO Nic Perez in this podcast. Sponsored by AWS, ThunderCat Technology and NetApp.
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The pandemic fundamentally changed the way agencies approach user access to systems and data. With telework, IT departments had to confront weakness in identity management that weren’t designed for large numbers of unmanaged devices connecting from offsite networks. The shift in security drew a distinction between authenticator tools and authentication controls, says Duo Security’s Bryan Rosensteel.
Efforts to configure security workarounds put a spotlight on modernizing authentication and identity technology for 2021, he explains in this podcast. Sponsored by Duo Security.
Guest: Bryan Rosensteel, Cybersecurity Architect, Public Sector, Cisco’s Duo Security
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Federal datasets are growing exponentially, and as they do, agencies are rising to the occasion to better understand, manage, analyze, visualize and share their data through improved strategy and increased leadership.
With a host of data on hand, agencies have been placing a new emphasis on the importance of that data and what they can do with it, says Red Hat's David Egts, in a new podcast.
He is joined with Henry Sowell from Cloudera Government Solutions to discuss the criticality of clean, useable data to achieve agency missions. Sponsored by Cloudera.
Guests: Henry Sowell, Head of Cloudera Government Solutions David Egts, Chief Technologist, North America Public Sector, Red Hat
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During the pandemic, the security threats facing federal agencies have significantly expanded. While the number of agency endpoints grow and federal employees work remotely with limited VPNs and legacy equipment, hackers are not relenting.
To account for this new cloud-based paradigm where the network is no longer confined to the physical walls of a federal building, agencies must now pivot to a zero trust view of security from the data layer, says Spunk's CISO, Yassir Abousselham.
“We cannot and need not protect everything at the same level,” Abousselham said. “What is needed is an approach to maintain a level of assurance that is aligned with sensitivity of the data that we want to protect.” Sponsored by Splunk.
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Government agencies are discovering managed security services represent an increasingly attractive alternative to trying to find and retain the cybersecurity skills they need to defend against a growing array of threats.
That’s due in part to the need for newer, deeper and broader security skills than most agencies have on staff and managed services providers have the ability to access the depth and breadth of talents and capabilities that might not otherwise be available in an agency setting.
Two security leaders discuss how agencies can access the kinds of cybersecurity skills the need which aren't always accessible through their typical hiring or recruiting processes. Sponsored by Verizon
Guests: Chris Novak, Global Director, Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center and M.K. Palmore, Vice President, Field Chief Security Officer, Palo Alto Networks
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The remote workforce has opened up the floodgates on cyber risk, presenting new challenges to operate safely in distributed environments. In addition to staying on top of growing threats, government CTOs and CISOs are also required to keep their environments current on an extensive list of federal compliance and regulatory guidance. Microsoft’s Alym Rayani explains how IT leaders will benefit from AI-enabled tools to converge security and compliance. Sponsored by Microsoft.
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The extensive ecosystem of open source partners and applications can be a boon to federal agencies trying to boost their modernization efforts.
IT leader Christine Cox says that agencies which work with the global open source development community are able to accelerate service delivery and overcome many of the common barriers to cloud modernization.
Developing applications using open source tools can help federal agencies future-proof digital services, by avoiding vendor lock-in, enhance their enterprise security and even support their high-performance computing requirements, says Cox.
Guest: Christine Cox, Regional VP, Federal Sales, SUSE Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group
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The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the federal government’s workforce to cloud-based telework and agency leaders need to address security concerns around access to sensitive information.
Even before COVID-19, the risk associated with securing federal IT systems and their underlying data remained high after a variety of high-profile attacks, such as the 2016 breach at the Office of Personnel Management. According to Dan Prieto from Google Cloud, agencies need to continue to evolve both policies and practices to drive down risk.
“[O]ur adversaries continue to be determined and they continue to be more aggressive. And their goals continue to expand: They seek to weaken democratic institutions; they seek to disrupt our critical infrastructures in health care and finance and government; and an emergency [within the public] service sector is something that we should be very wary of at this time of the COVID pandemic,” Prieto says. This podcast is sponsored by Google Cloud.
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Agencies that are implementing the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program have an opportunity to use their CDM data to increase the value of cyberdefense and cyber-operations programs.
There's a wealth of sensor data for CDM reporting that has an untapped value. Operationalizing it lets CDM become more than a compliance program, says Splunk's Frank Dimina.
Fusing CDM data with other information like perimeter traffic, IPS and firewall data can actually increase insights for the SOC. This podcast is sponsored by Splunk.
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Defense Department agencies and their mission partners that are looking to work on projects in a DOD-authorized cloud environment can do so almost immediately — and at significantly lower costs — by using a program called milCloud 2.0, says an executive leading the program.
The milCloud 2.0 program, which is supported by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and GDIT, is designed specifically to help DOD agencies accelerate adoption of cloud services.
The milCloud 2.0 platform is a fit-for purpose commercial cloud program managed by GDIT that sits in a multi-tenant, “Impact Level 5” cloud environment within DISA facilities. The unique arrangement allows DOD project teams to bypass much of the red tape and added costs associated with projects conducted on government-sanctioned public clouds, according to Brian Whitenight, who directs partner accounts for milCloud 2.0 at GDIT.
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The shift to remote work during the pandemic has given ransomware attackers a wider foothold to exploit IT vulnerabilities, forcing federal IT leaders to build new trust mechanisms and develop stronger safeguards to secure their data, say security experts in a new FedScoop podcast.
The sudden increase in personal computing devices connecting to agency networks — and the ability to compromise the home networks they dial in from — have made it easier for ransomware hackers to find pathways into agency data systems.
Building a comprehensive protection strategy around those additional endpoints and ensuring data is properly stored and protected are critical steps for agencies to take now, according to Mike Malaret, director of sales engineering for defense and intelligence communities at Veritas Technologies.
But he and Veritas colleagues Barry Levine, director federal healthcare and civilian strategic programs, and Senior Director Dave Cerjan, also stress the importance of having modern data backup and recovery systems in place, so that in the event that ransomware attacks do occur, agencies have the means to isolate their backup data in order to recover quickly. Sponsored by Veritas Technologies and Carahsoft.
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Social safety nets have proven to be especially vital during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But in some cases, the underlying legacy IT infrastructure supporting the modern delivery of those services has failed them.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning, however, have played an increasingly important role in helping agencies adapt to the challenges of the pandemic — particularly with volume and scale.
“Volume is a significant problem for all of the social safety net programs. They are seeing record numbers of applications and because the systems that support those programs are typically older legacy systems — some of them as old as 40 years old — they can't scale to meet that demand,” Winkler says.
On top of that, the CARES Act — which provided relief in response to the coronavirus — created some new programs that the inflexible legacy systems could not readily incorporate.
“The real issue is how does technology — and how will agencies — continue to serve this high volume of clients as we begin to reopen and recover?” she says in the podcast. Sponsored by Google Cloud.
Guest: Denise Winkler, Strategic Business Executive, Global Public Sector Group, Google Cloud
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Federal agencies are finding more ways to adopt robotic process automation (RPA) tools to meet the needs of citizens and to help their employees use their time more productively.
Agency leaders from Customs and Border Protection and Department of Labor discuss how they are offloading mundane business tasks so federal workers can focus on more valuable work.
“Most adoption of RPA starts in back-office applications. It starts out in finance, HR and IT services" and reduces the instances of human error or fraud that drive up costs, adds UiPath executive Christopher Townsend to the conversation.
Hear the discussion on the benefits RPA brings in offloading workloads to shift staff to higher-value work.
Guests: Louis S. Charlier, deputy CIO for the U.S. Department of Labor, Sunil Madhugiri, CTO for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Christopher Townsend, vice president of federal sales, UiPath
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As federal agencies have worked to engage more with citizens in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ve looked to artificial intelligence to help with the spike in people seeking information and services.
Agencies saw a major uptick in citizens just wanting more information on how the virus is spread, its symptoms and how many people had contracted it. As measures kicked in to stop the spread of the virus, almost immediately that transitioned into Americans seeking services like unemployment.
Jeff Brown discusses how AI and chatbots are proving instrumental to answering frequently asked questions for a majority of calls, freeing up telephone lines for more pressing issues. Sponsored by Google Cloud.
Guest: Jeff Brown, Strategic Business Executive, Global Public Sector, Google Cloud
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The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a greater need to analyze data from outside government agencies' purview to better inform decisions on how and when employees should return to offices — things like travel patterns, supply chains or health developments. In this podcast, experts discuss data management and analysis tools to help agency leaders mitigate health risks and supply chain weakness throughout the pandemic. Sponsored by TIBCO.
Guests (left to right): Cuong Nguyen, Vice President, Federal Sales and Michael O’Connell, Chief Analytics Officer at TIBCO
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As employees across government work from home, collaboration tools are increasingly critical to maintaining productivity.
However, when enabling both productivity and efficiency, there are boundaries to how much you can really gain, and the boundaries are finite, says Smartsheet's Chris Aherne in this podcast.
He cites a study from Deloitte showing that digital transformation is “a game of diminishing returns, even as labor productivity is rising.”
He discusses a new form of enterprise collaboration tools called collaborative work management tools — or CWM — to help teams get more visibility into how work is getting executed across the enterprise. Sponsored by Smartsheet and AWS.
Guest: Chris Aherne, Regional Vice President, Federal Sales, Smartsheet
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As agencies at all levels of government look to offer citizens tailored experiences similar to what they get in the private sector, predictive analytics are becoming an increasingly important part of that interaction.
In the private sector, consumers now expect a personalized experience in the first minutes or hours after interacting with an entity and public sector organizations should be no different.
“Really, if you think about it, agencies from public health, to post offices or similar constituent service organizations, really should be thinking about how the expectations of their constituents can be met,” says Google Cloud's Quinn Chasan in this podcast. Sponsored by Google Cloud.
Guest: Quinn Chasan, Head of Customer Analytics, Public Sector, Google Cloud
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Open source solutions are becoming an increasingly important part of enterprise systems. And in many cases, they’re giving federal agencies a superior and more secure alternative to using proprietary applications.
There are hundreds of thousands of open source projects out there today, and demand for enterprise open source solutions continues to grow, according to Alan Clark, who works in SUSE’s CTO Office focusing on emerging technologies and open source. One reason, he says, stems from the evolution within the open source community to adopt emerging technology solutions including containerization, microservices and artificial intelligence.
The community also has been instrumental in helping to quickly spot and fix security flaws. As a result, open source solutions are actually more secure than many proprietary applications, where the coding often remains hidden “in a black box.” Sponsored by SUSE.
Guest: Alan Clark, CTO Office, SUSE
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Recent advances in microprocessor architecture and performance are giving federal agencies reasons to take a second look at upgrading their legacy infrastructure, rather than just moving their operations to the cloud.
“One of the things that we think is really changing is [the need to] erase old technical debt … and drive digital transformation and security transformation,” says Heath Muchmore.
Today’s faster, more flexible and efficient microprocessor offerings enable the new workloads of AI, machine learning, artificial and augmented reality on premises in ways that matches the speed and performance of the cloud. Sponsored by Dell Technologies and AMD.
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Doing business with the Department of Defense has never been easy. But it’s about to get more complicated for tens of thousands of defense contractors and suppliers who must now prove they can meet a complex set of cybersecurity requirements as part of the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.
CMMC is DoD’s latest attempt to stem the tide of intellectual property loss and data exfiltration within its complex supply chain.
“The United States is losing between $600 billion and $1 trillion in intellectual property to foreign powers each year,” much of it from within the Defense Industrial Base, says Ryan Bonner. Sponsored by Cisco.
Guests (left to right): Ryan Bonner, Independent Compliance Consultant focused on Cybersecurity Regulations for Defense Contractors and Andy Stewart, Senior Federal Strategist, Cisco Systems
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Department of Defense (DOD) agencies and their partners want to capitalize on the speed, scale and analytic power of the cloud to tackle artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. However, elevated security requirements, timing and budgets tend to limit which projects can actually move to the cloud — or whether they get done at all.
The good news is that milCloud 2.0 — operated in partnership with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and GDIT — is helping defense agencies overcome those obstacles and even fast-track the use of AI and ML applications. Sponsored by GDIT and Intel Corp.
Guest: Jeffrey Phelan, milCloud 2.0 Cloud Services Portfolio Lead, GDIT
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The pandemic and subsequent shift to support remote workers has put renewed focus on the limitations of relying on virtual private networks — and why zero-trust access controls offer greater long-term security.
“There are a lot of challenges around scaling VPNs. Agencies that have adopted zero trust earlier were able to get [their remote workforce] up and running quite simply,” says Jose Padin.
Padin discusses use cases that show zero trust’s value over traditional VPNs and how agencies benefit, by being able to reduce operating costs and scale access quickly to meet workforce demands. He also touches on ways agencies can establish quick wins with zero trust. Sponsored by Zscaler.
Guest: Jose Padin, Federal Director of Sales Engineering, Public Sector, Zscaler
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the whole notion of going into a government office to interact with an agency came to a stand-still, forcing agency leaders to establish alternative solutions to quickly deliver services to constituents.
Fortunately, the availability of open source solutions and a global community of developers have helped IT leaders implement fast and agile cloud solutions.
Implementing these solutions has been helped along by the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA Act), which laid the foundation for federal agencies to deliver the kinds of web and customer service experiences that consumers typically expect when they are interacting with the private sector, says Peter Durand. Sponsored by Acquia.
Guest: Peter Durand, Vice President, Federal Business, Acquia
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When it comes to IT modernization, federal agencies commonly face three central challenges: integrating a myriad of systems, rationalizing applications and winning over each system owner to support agencywide infrastructure changes. Those challenges often come to a head when trying to cultivate an agile and secure DevSecOps process.
One agency that has demonstrated surprising success in overcoming those challenges — in the face of daunting deadlines — is the U.S. Census Bureau.
This was this the first time the Census Bureau attempted to collect responses via the internet. That endeavor added to the size and complexity of the internal IT modernization project, as well to the number of developers, security and operations stakeholders and vendors brought on board for this initiative. Sponsored by T-Rex Solutions.
Guest: Jason Keplinger, Chief Technology Officer, T-Rex Solutions.
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Zero-trust security architecture is changing the way IT leaders think about access to federal agency networks and resources. That includes how to meet the needs of employees and contractors for whom physical personal identity verification (PIV) credentials and Common Access Cards (CAC) have been the primary method for authenticating access to federal IT systems.
The rapid surge in telework during the current pandemic has made clear, physical authentication controls present a significant obstacle to those who need to access agency resources remotely. At the same time, the continuing theft of usernames and passwords is forcing IT leaders to look for better ways to authenticate users, says Yves Massard. Sponsored by HID Global.
Guest: Yves Massard, Product Marketing Director, IAM solutions, HID Global
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Public officials across the nation have come under extraordinary pressures to keep up with the demands for public services. But they’ve also shown a remarkable ability to innovate in a hurry, says IBM's Jay Bellissimo.
While much of that innovation was driven by necessity, “it illustrates the potential to transform government faster than many would have thought possible,” he says. “What we’ve heard from many of our clients was that they were surprised — both by how easy it was to innovate on the fly, and how relatively inexpensive it was as well.”
The discussion is expected to continue at the Think Gov virtual conference on July 1, 2020. Visit www.ibm.com/thinkgov to register. Sponsored by IBM.
Guest: Jay Bellissimo, General Manager, U.S. Public and Federal Market, IBM
A new generation of open source solutions for high-performance computing are helping federal agencies tackle complex data and modeling challenges, such as climate simulations and fraud detection, according to a leading open source software expert.
High-performance computing (HPC) solutions, together with available cloud services, allow government agencies to not only generate high-resolution models, but also have a scalable, sustainable and manageable way to store the research.
“Thinking about the huge amount of data that agencies are flooded with in nearly every program, it's not humanly possible to analyze this information by hand, or even with traditional computerized checks. These problems are particularly well suited to HPC and machine learning,” says CTO Brent Schroeder. Sponsored by SUSE.
Guest: Brent Schroeder, Chief Technology Officer, SUSE
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Defense agencies looking for a faster way to acquire and utilize cloud services may be overlooking a unique cloud platform already at their fingertips. That platform — milCloud 2.0 — is a fit-for-purpose commercial cloud service designed to meet the unique mission critical requirements of the Defense Department and its mission partners – including the military services, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Pentagon and its 4th Estate Agencies. Sponsored by GDIT.
Guest: Jeffrey Phelan, milCloud 2.0 and DOD cloud services portfolio lead, GDIT
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The massive shift to telework in recent weeks has put enormous pressures on federal, state and local IT departments, given the scale and complexity involved in shifting operations. But there may be a silver lining, as IT leaders are in a stronger position to advocate for more modern and out-of-the-box solutions that can deliver services faster or more flexibly.
Steve McMahon, Interim CIO at Splunk, can relate to what agency IT departments are going through. He shares some of the steps his organization had to take to adapt to new operating environment — and suggests strategies that IT departments can use to address the expanded set of security risks. Sponsored by Splunk.
Guest: Steve McMahon, Interim CIO, Splunk
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IT executives are increasingly recognizing the importance of open source software as a way to preserve their investment options, reduce vendor lock-in and build more agility into their systems.
SUSE's Melissa Di Donato shares her perspective on how the open source movement is continuing to grow in importance to enterprise IT decision makers, as well as use cases for ways that government agencies can take greater advantage of open-source solutions. Sponsored by SUSE.
Guest: Melissa Di Donato, CEO, SUSE
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Zero-trust architecture is gaining widening attention from agency IT leaders and federal policy-makers alike. As agency network connections grow more complex, and the number of distributed applications and remote users continues to expand, CISOs see zero-trust strategies as a critical way forward to keep agency systems and users secure.
IT veteran Jim Richberg shares practical steps agency leaders can take to start building a zero-trust security environment. Sponsored by Fortinet.
Guest: Jim Richberg, Field CISO, Fortinet
Chief information security officers are working diligently to ensure the productivity of temporarily homebound agency employees, while still adhering to the fundamentals of effective cybersecurity practices.
Because employees are connecting working remotely, often with their own equipment, there is an increased risk of an employee exposing agency networks to a whole host of security risks. IT departments need to keep on top of network modeling and cyber-hygiene practices to keep remote workers secure. Sponsored by RedSeal.
Guest: Wayne Lloyd, Federal Chief Technology Officer, RedSeal
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The current work environment is prioritizing cloud-enabled collaboration tools for agencies, but without the network tools and bandwidth needed, says IT expert. Sponsored by Fortinet.
Guest: Jim Richberg, field CISO at Fortinet
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Agencies accommodating a larger remote workforce need a more holistic view of their networks that looks across all security layers. Cybersecurity experts from Cisco discuss new tools that allow CIOs and CISOs to quickly establish an integrated threat intelligence environment across multiple domains. Sponsored by Cisco.
Guests from Cisco: Peter Romness, Cybersecurity Principal for U.S. Public Sector; Will Ash, Sr. Director for U.S. Public Sector Cybersecurity; Doug Cowan, Federal Civilian Leader for U.S. Public Sector
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As agencies scramble for a solution to keep serving constituents and delivering on their mission, IT leaders must address several key challenges at once – including endpoint security, encrypted data transmission and bandwidth capacity, says former federal cybersecurity official, Jim Richberg. What’s helping them keep up with an expanding set of cloud and other remote connectivity capabilities help address expanded security risks inherent in the telework surge? Sponsored by Fortinet.
Guest: Jim Richberg, Field CISO, Fortinet
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An increase in remote workers offers adversaries more opportunities to exploit vulnerabilities, but DNS security tools can help agencies stem attacks at the edge, says security expert. Sponsored by Akamai Technologies.
Guest: Patrick Sullivan, CTO for Security Strategy, Akamai Technologies
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As more government employees work remotely, agency IT teams can rapidly secure access at scale with cloud-based identity authentication, says a cybersecurity veteran. Sponsored by Duo Security, now a part of Cisco.
Guest: Sean Frazier, Advisory CISO, Duo Security
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IT industry veteran Dave Young discusses ways agencies can modernize faster and more securely by updating their infrastructure. Sponsored by CenturyLink.
Guest: Dave Young, Senior Vice President, Public Sector, CenturyLink
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Federal guidelines on implementing identity and access controls beyond traditional credential validation methods give agencies more flexibility to improve security as well as user experience. Those guidelines — part of the Federal Identity, Credential and Access Management (FICAM) policy — also help pave the path to modernizing how employees and citizens access government resources. Sponsored by ForgeRock.
Guest: Ashley Stevenson, Vice President of Product and Solution Marketing, ForgeRock
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Modern unified technology platforms, embedded with artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, will give federal agencies the ability to achieve a common operating picture of their networks and to quickly respond to threats, says former national intelligence cyber leader. Sponsored by Fortinet.
Guest: Jim Richberg, chief information security officer at Fortinet and former national intelligence manager for cyber in the Office of the Director of National intelligence.
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Harnessing data in motion expands the public sector’s ability to make more intelligent decisions and deliver services more effectively, say data experts. Sponsored by Cloudera and Intel.
Guests: Henry Sowell, CIO, Cloudera Government Solutions and Shaun Bierweiler, President, Cloudera Government Solutions at Cloudera
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How a tech partnership enhances federal government agency efforts to use unified identity and access controls to make multi-cloud adoption more secure. Sponsored by Cisco Systems. FedScoop interview with Jamie Sanbower, principal architect at Cisco Systems, and Sean Frazier, advisory chief information security officer for federal government at Duo Security. Moderated by Wyatt Kash for FedScoop.
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Doug Lange, chief strategy officer, and Jennifer Quintero, IT manager, business analysis for the business engineering group, share their experience and best practices and the wins that helped them navigate a relationship-based mission structure.
Hear how Deliotte's executive director of Center for Government Insights walks through various strategies agencies should consider when embarking on a digital transformation initiative
Digital, data-driven processes have never been more important to a mission's success and agencies across the public sector are looking to digital best practices to transform their services.
Amtrak joins us to discuss the strategy, deployment, and success of the cloud platform that is improving the customer experience by transforming the employee experience.
Peter Schwartz, Salesforce's Chief Future Officer discusses the future of customer experience and what it means for government as a whole.
Content management systems that use modern tools are improving how agencies manage structured and unstructured data through workflows, an IT expert says. Sponsored by Hyland.
Guest: Bill Priemer, President and CEO of Hyland
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Agency leaders can reduce program costs and improve productivity with a cloud-based content management system platform, says SBA’s CTO in a podcast interview.
Guests: Anju Varkey, senior solutions engineer for the global partner channel at Alfresco Software (left); Sanjay Gupta, chief technology officer at the Small Business Administration (SBA) (right).
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Cloud-based identity and access management platforms can deploy in just weeks and reduce costs as agencies modernize login and access credentials. Sponsored by Okta.
Guest: Ted Girard, vice president public sector at Okta
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Government networks remain vulnerable to breaches from phishing attacks. But security experts outline solutions to tighten identity authentication controls that enable agencies to move towards achieving a zero-trust security model. Sponsored by Duo Security.
Guests: Dean Scontras, vice president of public sector and Sean Frazier, advisory chief information security officer with Duo Security, a division of Cisco
People, process and acquisition approaches may be the biggest hurdles as agencies focus on modernizing their systems, expert cautions.
Agencies benefit from broader developer community support and faster execution of microservices strategies, say experts in a podcast. Sponsored by Alfresco Software Inc.
Guests: Richard Bright, senior solutions architect supporting U.S. General Services Administration’s IT chief technology officer (left) and Tony Franzonello, VP - Federal (right).
Initial tests suggest agencies believe distributed ledgers will strengthen security and improve transaction services. Sponsored by Alfresco Software, Inc.
Guests: Sunil Thomas, chief information officer (left) and Tara Combs, specialist in enterprise content management, records management and business process automation (right)
Agencies who adopt a modular approach to cloud migration can address both growing workforce skills gaps and innovate how they move their applications, say experts. Sponsored by Alfresco Software, Inc.
Guests: Dan Kasun, head of Independent Software Alliances - worldwide public sector business (left) and Ankur Laroia, VP - strategy and corporate development (right)
GSA’s FedRAMP acting director talks about a new approval process to help SaaS providers and federal agencies meet cloud security requirements faster. Sponsored by GitHub.
Guests: Jamie Jones, principle architect (left) and Ashley Mahan, acting director - FedRAMP
Government agencies using software containers and APIs will be able to transition to the cloud in a distributed IT environment more efficiently, experts say in a new podcast. Sponsored by Red Hat.
Guests: Steven Willmott, senior director and head of API infrastructure (left) and Michelle Davis, senior solutions architect (right)
The National Park Service’s Shaun Kavanaugh and endpoint IT expert from Quest share experiences with endpoint management and advise agencies on specifications to consider. Sponsored by Quest Public Sector.
Guests: Shaun Kavanaugh, chief information officer (left) and Jamie Cerra, senior sales engineer (right)
IT expert describes ways that automation and orchestration increase security, lower costs and help modernize legacy systems. Sponsored by VMware, Intel and Carahsoft.
Guest: Chris Martin, technology solution architect
Cloud-based identity and access management platforms offer federal CIOs a cost-effective solution to improve security and citizens’ online experience. Sponsored by ForgeRock.
Guests: Christopher Keel, principal (left) and Ashley Stevenson, senior director of applied innovation (right)
Defense Department IT leader shares in a new podcast how container technologies have improved agility and security across DOD threat reduction unit. Sponsored by Docker.
Guests: Chris Cyrus, director - public sector (left) and Leo Garciga, chief technology officer (right)
The DoD’s chief medical informatics officer discusses his agency’s ambitious GENESIS program to provide a single worldwide EHR system for its 9 million beneficiaries. Sponsored by VMware, Intel and Carahsoft.
Guests: Alexander Holston, chief medical informatics officer (left) and Rob Sherry, senior director of federal health care (right)
Agencies can get more out of DHS’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation security program by tapping the expertise of qualified integrators, cybersecurity experts say. Sponsored by Forcepoint.
Guests: Greg Decker, principal (left) and Eric Trexler, vice president of global governments and critical infrastructure (right)
With CDM Defend, the GSA focuses on making sure agencies can acquire the tools they are looking for with Schedule 70, the largest IT contract in the federal government. Sponsored by Forcepoint.
Guests: Larry Hale, director - IT security subcategory, IT category management (left) and Eric Trexler, vice president of global governments and critical infrastructure (right)
Agility, more than cost savings, may prove to be the greater benefit of moving to hyperconverged infrastructure architecture, say VMware and Intel executives in a FedScoop podcast. Sponsored by VMware, Intel and Carahsoft.
Guests: Lee Caswell, VP of products and storage availability (left) and Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for the Americas (right)
Cloud computing can benefit agencies looking to modernize their IT operations, but deploying enterprise-scale applications calls for a solid development platform. Sponsored by Affigent.
Guest: Dave Pipes, solutions architect
DHS’s Kevin Cox says that CDM DEFEND offers new flexibility for agencies moving on to Phase 3 of the CDM program. Sponsored by Forcepoint.
Guests: Kevin Cox, CDM program manager (left) and Eric Trexler, VP for global governments and critical infrastructure (right)
Automating performance management processes can help agencies develop more effective employee performance plans and human capital strategies. Sponsored by Acendre.
Guests: John Salamone, chief human capital officer (left) and Sean Osborne, VP, product management (right)
Pure Storage's John Karagozian explains how innovations in flash technologies are making it easier for federal agencies to transition to next generation tools for managing data storage. Sponsored by Pure Storage.
Guest: John Karagozian, global SAP lead
New national mandates require software and technology makers to meet expanded digital accessibility standards. Deque Systems CEO Preety Kumar highlights why that's good for business, and how agencies and technology providers can meet the new standards cost effectively. Sponsored by Deque Systems.
Guest: Preety Kumar, CEO
How technology investments save agencies money and increase worker satisfaction. Sponsored by Dell EMC.
Guest: Steve Harris, senior VP and general manager, federal business
Brett Hansen, VP of data security at Dell, recommends new approaches to securing endpoints, data and users from ever-evolving cybersecurity threats. Sponsored by Dell EMC.
Guest: Brett Hanson, VP of data security
The third podcast in FedScoop's Public Sector Innovation Priorities series delves into opportunities for agencies to employ virtual technologies to improve government workforce productivity and increase security from the network to the endpoint. Sponsored by VMware.
Guests: Mike Wilkerson, senior director of federal end user computing and mobility (left) and Matt Schneider, senior director of U.S. public sector network and security (right)
VMware’s Eugene Liderman explains how federal agencies can reduce IT friction, boost workforce productivity and save money by adopting derived credentials for mobile devices. Sponsored by VMware.
Guest: Eugene Liderman, director of product management
Robert Ruelas, vice president of end-user computing at VMware, spoke with FedScoop about the results of a new government productivity study and how virtualization can reduce IT friction and address productivity issues in government. Sponsored by VMware.
Guest: Robert Ruelas, VP end-user computing
The data storage landscape is continually changing and in the background there are a few shifts driving that evolution, including culture changes. Sponsored by Hortonworks.
Guest: Shaun Bierweiler, vice president - public sector
The growth of Internet of Things and the vast amounts of data they'll generate present a new set of challenges for federal CIOs who must begin planning for the convergence of IT and OT. FedScoop's Wyatt Kash interviews Dell EMC's Yogev Shimony, marketing director for embedded solutions, and Ro Dhanda, director for federal business, about how CIOs can get better prepared. Sponsored by Dell EMC.
Guests: Yogev Shimony, marketing director for embedded solutions (left) and Ro Dhanda, director for federal business (right)
Federal chief technologists at Dell EMC and Intel highlight how new IT infrastructure services and business models offer agencies fresh alternatives to transform and secure their enterprise IT operations. Sponsored by Dell EMC.
Guests: Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer(left) and Steve Orrin, federal chief technology officer (right)
Nutanix Federal Vice President Chris Howard discusses why not all agency workloads are best fit for the public cloud. Sponsored by Nutanix.
Guest: Chris Howard, federal VP
Grammatech's Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder Dr. Tim Teitelbaum speaks with host Kevin Greene about DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), the world’s first all-machine hacking challenge. Grammatech was one of the finalists in CGC and Tim discusses some insights and lessons learned from the challenge. Tim also share his insights on why Grammatech has been very successful at tech transition and commercialization of federaly funded research and development.
Dr. Teitelbaum is not only the Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Grammatech, but he also holds the distinguished honor of professor emeritus at Cornell University. Dr. Teitelbaum research interests are focused on automatic program analysis with the ultimate goal of solving the important cybersecurity concerns of the modern world. Making the cyber-world a safer place includes uncovering bugs and vulnerabilities in software that can be exploited by attackers around the globe.
OpenSSL Foundation Co-Founder Steve Marquess speaks with host Kevin Greene about the status of OpenSSL after the catastrophic Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014. Since then, OpenSSL has been under construction to improve the quality of code with refactoring, design and architecture enhancements, and improvements to cryptographic functions to provide a more stable code base.
Steve discusses the challenges and lessons learned from 2014 and prior that ultimately contributed to the fatal exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability. Steve shares his thoughts on ways the community at large can support not only OpenSSL, but other key and widely used open-source projects.
OpenSSL Foundation Co-Founder Steve Marquess speaks with host Kevin Greene about the status of OpenSSL after the catastrophic Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014. Since then, OpenSSL has been under construction to improve the quality of code with refactoring, design and architecture enhancements, and improvements to cryptographic functions to provide a more stable code base.
Steve discusses the challenges and lessons learned from 2014 and prior that ultimately contributed to the fatal exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability. Steve shares his thoughts on ways the community at large can support not only OpenSSL, but other key and widely used open-source projects.
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Global Principle Engineer Ken Modeste speaks with host Kevin Greene about the status of cyber initiatives underway at the UL for certifying IoT devices. Ken discusses the need to drive good cyber hygiene in products by incorporating secure design principles to reduce the cost to maintain software. Ken share ways the community can engage the UL process to help drive adoption.
Ken Modeste is the principal technical advisor and SME for UL's cybersecurity program. He helped develop UL's series of cybersecurity standards that tests network-connectable devices for known vulnerabilities and software security. Previous to UL, Ken served as an engineering manager for GE for 12 years.
As part of the cybersecurity strategy for UL, Ken is responsible for strategically identifying long-term growth opportunities that align with UL's mission to address public safety. He is responsible for creating the laboratory, hiring and training all personnel and developing programs and services to support UL's clients' security needs.
Nutanix Federal Vice President Chris Howard highlights why nearly 300 federal agencies are using hyperconverged infrastructure. Sponsored by Nutanix.
Guest: Chris Howard, federal vice president
Errata Security CEO Robert Graham speaks with host Kevin Greene about the growing challenges in security software and the Internet of Things. Graham shares his insights on improving IoT security, the potential impact of software certifications and the role of the community in helping shape the future direction for cyber initiatives.
Graham also provides sound advice for establishing minimal security requirements and practices for security software and IoT devices. He discusses the importance of transparency and collaboration for initiatives like the Underwriter’s Lab. Robert Graham is the CEO of Errata Security, a pentest/consulting firm. He's known for creating the first Intrusion Prevention System, the BlackICE series of products, sidejacking and masscan. In his spare time, he scans the Internet. He has been speaking at several conferences a year for the past decade.
FedScoop's podcast series, "Cybersecurity Insights & Perspectives,” explores the latest news and developments in cybersecurity and information assurance affecting federal agencies, featuring some of the top commercial and academic research experts in the country.
Kevin Greene has more than 17 years of cybersecurity and information assurance experience. His contributions to FedScoop represent his own views and do not reflect the positions or policies of any federal agency. Follow him at @iamkevtorious.
Good Harbor chairman and CEO speaks with host Kevin Greene about the impact of Yahoo’s massive data breach and the growing concern of citizen privacy. Clarke shares his insight on what the government needs to do to protect this nation’s voting and election process. Clarke also provides cyber security recommendations that he would like each presidential candidate to address as part of their cyber security strategy.
StateScoop interview with David Damato, Chief Security Officer at Tanium, on the benefits and best practices surrounding cyberecuiryt hygiene.
OWASP Global Board Member Matt Konda discuss with host Kevin Greene what to expect from this year’s AppSec USA conference.
CEO and Founder Anup Ghosh discuss with host Kevin Greene the importance of machine learning in improving cyber security detection capabilities. Ghosh and Invincea have recently announced a partnership with Virustotal to assist the malware research community in understanding various types of malware. Ghosh told host Kevin Greene that the deep learning engine in Invincea’s X technology has its roots in DARPA’s Cyber Genome project.
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