Federal Tech Podcast

October 4, 2022  Joe Bagnal, SpyCloud In the commercial world, companies do competitive evaluations.  In fact, after hundreds of appearances on live television, I can confirm that each station has the other stations on screens around the office. Well, why not look at the dark web and learn what the...

September 27, 2022 Brian Chidester We are living in challenging times; citizen trust is waning. Pew Research has a great quote about citizen trust “Only two-in-ten say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always.” COVID has forced citizens to try to get information...

September 20, 2022 Paul Dillahay, Empower AI World famous Brian Papp from CISA has the best line when it comes to justifying the use of Artificial Intelligence in federal projects. “There is too much data and not enough people to understand it.” Bingo. We are living in a world where...

September 13, 2022 Rob Carey, Cloudera Government Solutions Today’s interview is with Rob Carey, Cloudera Government Solutions. He is a well-known expert who boasts twenty-five years of increasing management authority in the United States Navy.  He begins with an observation that focusing on the platform or the infrastructure will misdirect...

September 6, 2022 Billy Biggs, WalkMe Software vendors will talk about an increase in productivity once the system is in place; one aspect that doesn’t get mentioned is the whole process of learning the system.  Right now, the federal government is in the middle of a drastic increase in activity. ...

August 30, 2022 Brandon Conley, AppOmni Magicians work by misdirection.  The same is true in managing federal in federal information technology. Let’s say you have done your work with compliance on your Infrastructure as a Service Platform and your Platform as a Service. Malicious actors know this all too well. ...

August 26, 2022 Tony D’Angelo, Lookout They stopped building castles with moats and walls when technology made them useless.  Today, our notions of perimeter defense are being negated by technology as well. This time, the network has expanded the number of threat vectors to the point where it is almost...

August 9, 2022 Dr. Bartley Richardson, nVidia The federal government is subjected to thousands of cyberattacks a day.  When you combine that statistic with the tremendous gap in people that need to be hired for cyber defense, you can see the problem that is developing. One way is to gain...

August 2, 2022 Beau Hutto, Netskope Everyone reading this knows that the typical federal agency runs thousands of apps. We have seen reports that range from 600 apps to 2,400 apps. The number of apps is debatable, and the managing of these apps is the real concern. According to Beau...