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Episodes
Ep 192 Forensic Analysis and Digital Footprint
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ep 192 Forensic Analysis and Digital Footprint Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to o...
Ep. 191 The Surge of Google Public Sector
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 190 Going Deeper with Federal User Experience
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Huma...
Ep. 189 Unlocking the $178 billion-dollar small business market.
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Robb...
Ep. 188 Understanding Public Sector Partnerships
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com The ...
Ep. 187 Accelerating Application Refactoring with AI in DevSecOps
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Joel ...
Ep. 186 How AI is Shaping The Future of Work in Government
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 185 Post Quantum Encryption: Defense Against the Dark Arts
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com When it comes ...
Ep. 184 Managing Microservices in a Complex Federal Environment
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com If you read...
Ep. 183 Hidden Relationships in Large Data Sets
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com History books w...
Ep. 182 Sorry, not your father's Oracle
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Today...
Ep. 181 Software Testing in the Real World
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Once upon a tim...
Ep. 180 Keys to Success in FedRAMP
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 179 Managing the Chaos of Enterprise Software Development
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fun fact #1: 90% of software developed today comprises third-party apps. Fun fact #2: 48% of organizations have over one hundred tools in the ...
Ep. 178 Akamai and Identity Management
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growth always brings challenges. In today's episode, we talk about how the DoD can manage the challenge of development in several aspects of identity ...
Ep. 177 A New Perspective on Understanding Threat Intelligence
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com When...
Ep. 176 Improving UX for 26,000 Federal Websites
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 175 Technical debt, code abstraction, and federal application development
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 174 Observations on AI & Federal AI
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 173 Hybrid Computing as the New Load Balancing Challenge
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 172 Applying Quantum technology for complex federal problems
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 171 Looking at Generative AI & Cybersecurity from a Global Perspective.
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 170 How to Optimize Time at the End of the Federal Buying Cycle
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 169 The Cloud, Data Strategy, and the Federal Government
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 168 Who do you trust? Zero Trust & the Federal Government
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 166 The most important tech question that nobody asks
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Data Destruction? Find out more about data destruction best practices for federal agencies here. https://securis.com/government-agencies/ Want to ma...
Ep. 160 What are Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 159 Role of Strategy in Federal Cybersecurity
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 164 What is Proactive Cyber Security?
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The volume of cyber attacks on federal organizations has gotten to the level that traditional methods have lost their efficacy. If you merely react t...
Ep. 162 Managing Kubernetes can Increase Security and Reduce Cost
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 162 Managing Kubernetes can Increase Security and Reduce Cost The military likes to use the phrase "situational awareness." Of course, it is i...
Ep. 163 Beyond the SBOM for Secure Software Development
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ep. 161 How to Overcome the Challenge of Modernizing Legacy Systems
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All the headlines would make you think the federal government is spending millions of dollars on bleeding-edge innovative technologies. However, a d...
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05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The federal government purchases over $90 billion a year in information technology porductds and services. The purpose of the Federal Tech Podcast i...
Ep. 158 Safe Use of AI with Privacy Enhancing Technology
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every technology has a maturation cycle; today we see Artificial Intelligence transitioning from being a parlor trick to being considered for serious...
Ep. 157 What Value is a Software Bill of Materials?
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Years ago, people would laboriously code character by character. This tedious process would take hours and would include errors. Over the years, libra...
Ep. 156 Applying Telemetry to Federal Networks
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most practical applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to assist in network observability. The big move to Zero Trust is predicated...
Ep. 155 For Federal Data, Data is the Gold
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1848 they found gold at Sutter's Mill in California. According to the CEO of Cohesity, data is the new gold. Today, we sit down with David Kushner ...
Ep. 154 Responsible AI for Federal Programs
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are at the point where Artificial Intelligence is splitting into several capabilities. These include Generative, Natural Language Processing, Compu...
Ep. 153 Applying Tech to Proposal Creation
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, we must look at literature to get an understanding of the current situation for federal GWAC contractors. Let us look back to Charles Dicke...
Ep. 152 Insights on Managing Federal Data
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are in a whirlwind of change. Data is pouring into federal agencies. A recent report indicated that data was growing at 25% a year; cloud usage at ...
Ep. 151 AI and Software Development
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, the most important impact of technology can be behind the curtains. Today, we will not focus on AI Deep Fakes and AI language translation, ...
Ep. 150 AI: Can it provide a safe path for federal technology?
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 150 Can a platform provide a path to safe AI for federal technology? About every reader knows that ServiceNow is a large company that helps the fe...
Ep. 149 Artificial Intelligence & human intelligence to win proposals.
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone has seen AI with articles and even deep fake videos. No doubt it is dazzling, great for a conversation at a picnic with friends. The questi...
Ep. 148 Deep Intelligence and Critical Visibility
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Federal technology has paralleled the commercial world in its expansion to millions of endpoints. On one hand, this means better information from some...
Ep. 147 Tech Communities how to build and sustain
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After hundreds of interviews with tech innovators I have concluded they are all trying to accomplish the same thing: tell how they can help get the wo...
Ep. 146 Tactical Edge Network
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The federal government has a myriad of technological challenges: legacy systems, Zero Trust, and even maintaining existing equipment! Most companies w...
Ep. 145 DDOS Attacks & Federal Agencies
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cybersecurity threats are like fashion; wait a few years and they come back in style. The Internet was designed to take a series of digits and resolve...
Ep. 144 Process automation and no code platforms Appian
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Appian Corporation is a 25-year-old technology company that focuses on improving process automation for large organizations. Once a year they have an ...
Ep. 143 Selling to the feds (Bonus episode) Breaking into the federal technology marketplace.
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In connecting with some new listeners, I learned that some have never sold to the federal government and listened to the podcast to see how other comp...
Ep. 142 Artificial Intelligence applied to Threat Intelligence
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Not all threats to the United States are discussed in English. That simple concept is well known in the intelligence community; however, making an obv...
Ep. 141 Data privacy: the Data Behind the Dazzle
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence is at the phase where federal and commercial technology leaders are amazed by novel model architectures. Each one can perform ...
Ep. 140 Getting Value from Massive Federal Data Sets
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cheap storage and fast Internet have made data collection cheap and fast. It is no wonder that we have federal agencies that are drowning in data. Som...
Ep. 139 Applying Generative AI to improve citizen services
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021 the federal leaders recognized a problem with citizen experience on federal websites. As a result, Executive Order 14058 was released dedicat...
Ep. 138 Is Identity a 10-billion-dollar problem?
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Trade Commission recently estimated that nationwide fraud tops ten billion dollars. Most of the efforts to stop this abuse start with ide...
Ep. 137 How Artificial Intelligence can help the Warfighter
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT has overwhelmed the headlines in the past few months. It has brought the concept of artificial intelligence to the forefront of many discussio...
Ep. 137 Can Codeless Software Help Feds Reach Agency Goals?
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In most of my interviews, I sit down with a company and talk about innovation in solving federal technology goals. Today, a twist. Sonny Hashmi was at...
Ep. 135 Networking at the Speed of Light
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone reading this has seen the movie Top Gun with Tom Cruise and heard the classic phrase, "The Need for Speed." Well, a desire for speed is not...
Ep. 134 Is Automation, branching logic, and optimizing paths
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An American poet once wrote about reaching a fork in the road and he considered which path to take. When one attempts to consider branching logic...
Ep. 133 Champions of innovation instead of captives of compliance?
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we sit down with Susan Kidd and Valinder Mangat and discuss FedRAMP. Some will argue that FedRAMP is an unruly thirteen-year-old. Although FedRA...
Ep. 132 Enhancing Collaboration in Federal Systems
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you were to take a class in Data Management 101, you would walk into the classroom on the first day and be bombarded with terms like data lake, dat...
Ep. 131 Exploring and Understanding Data
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A recent study by Deloitte indicates that 67% of executives struggle with data analytics. The knight in shining armor that offers a rescue is artifici...
Ep. 130 Reducing Risk in the Hybrid Cloud through Identification
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We begin this episode with a shocking statistic: 80% of hybrid cloud breaches involve credential abuse. During the interview, Jimmy McNary from Semp...
Ep. 129 Bringing data to the hands of federal officers on the front line
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The title of this podcast is "Federal Tech Podcast." For many people, this evokes an image of stacks and stacks of servers in a windowless data cent...
Ep. 128 Understanding Risks in the Hybrid Cloud
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we look at the proper way to manage the hybrid cloud for federal projects. Our guest is the Chief Technology Officer for Thundercat Technology,...
Ep. 125 Overcoming Challenges in Federal Technology Leadership
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you do a Google search on "Leadership" you get five billion results. Seems like a topic that has been given tons and tons of attention. A better wa...
Ep. 126 Herding Containers with Rancher Government Solutions
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the years some technical terms are easy to understand for mere mortals – data centers, high-speed internet, and even identity management. Howev...
Ep. 125 The Secure Hybrid Edge
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When people think of Amazon Web Services, they normally think of a data center. This was certainly top of mind when AWS hosted 10,000 at its Public Se...
Ep. 124 Is Digital Transformation Evolution or Revolution?
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Eselgroth will lead a discussion about innovation and change in federal technology. Normally, one would think about solutions to problems. Tradi...
Ep. 123 Is Artificial Intelligence limiting the Value of Process Mining?
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI? Process mining? We owe it to the listeners to put the strange title into perspective. Some will argue that a federal agency is a collection of bus...
Ep. 122 Safe & Secure Artificial Intelligence
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's interview, Guarv "GP" Pal from stackArmor presents a warning call to let people know that a sudden jump into any technology can present uni...
Ep. 121 The Godfather of Zero Trust, John Kindervag from Illumio
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first part of this interview is a fascinating description of how John Kindervag produced the concept of Zero Trust. In the early days of networkin...
Ep. 120 How to Improve User Experience on Federal Websites
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On December 13, 2021, an Executive Order titled "Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in ...
Ep 119 CMMC & the Defense Industrial Base – Are You Ready?
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DoD tossed the revisions to the OMB; the 300,000 people in the DIB are waiting with 'bated breath to see what it looks like in the Federal Register. W...
Ep. 118 An update on Zero Trust for the Federal Government
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There was a time when a "snapshot" of a federal system was taken, and its security posture was evaluated based on the moment in time. That may have be...
Ep. 117 Putting Agile Software Development in Work Boots for the Federal Government
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of books have been written about agile software development since the release of The Agile Manifesto back in 2001. It was a noble, but fru...
Ep. 116 The role of no code, low code for federal IT
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world is exploding with data and the need for systems to manage it. Unfortunately, we are not seeing a commensurate growth in people who are get...
Ep. 115 How can Google help Federal Agencies?
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of my goals in "Federal Tech Podcast" is to let federal leaders get an idea of what new companies and ideas are available to help them reach their...
Ep. 114 Improving Digital Adoption for Secure Federal Technology
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 114 Improving Digital Adoption for Secure Federal Technology Commercial enterprises and the federal government have a challenge in managing the tr...
Ep. 113 MGM, CISA, and non-human entities
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Brodbent has an amazing technical background. When he was still in his teens, he started a company that managed services. For the past twenty yea...
Ep. 112 Going from Observability to Deep Observability
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some will argue that providing cybersecurity to a federal agency is a balancing game. On the one hand, you must encrypt network traffic; on the other ...
Ep. 111 Gaining a Deeper Understanding of CMMC
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Calvinball, the rules were always changing. When it comes to the DoD's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, it seems to look increasingly li...
Ep. 110 Visibility and Federal Networks
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days of computer networking, one was taught to make the network hard on the outside and soft in the inside. A more popular variation on t...
Ep. 109 When Enterprise Detection and Response isn't enough.
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Traditionally, a threat was detected, and a remediation plan was deployed. This is classic Endpoint Detect and Response (EDR). Would that life be ...
Ep. 108 Federal IT and Collisions in Space
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone who has watched everything from Star Wars to Star Trek has never encountered some of the problems we see in space today: collisions and space...
Ep. 107 Data in Motion
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we have Will Laforest from Confluent explain how federal leaders can harness the power of data streaming. We all know that data has exploded si...
Ep. 106 Federal Spend Management
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kenny Rogers once had a popular song where he sand, "There's time enough for countin' when the dealin' is done." Well, there was a lot of spending dur...
Ep. 105 The Value of Notifications for Cyber and Physical Threats
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Rumsfeld is famous for saying there are "unknown unknowns." Today's interview with OnSolve takes this concept down a practical road: once s...
Ep. 104 Can AI Assist Federal Software Development?
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence in software development has been top-of-mind for federal technology leaders once ChatGPT was popularized. This concern is docu...
Ep. 103 Effective data management at end of lifecycle and after a breach
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you have ever raised teenagers, you know the phrase, "unintended consequences." In today's world of federal technology, this concept can be applied...
Ep. 102 Trends in Cyberlegislation and Threats
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is always nice to occasionally get out of the trenches to look at the larger issues. Today, we sat down with Michael Mestrovich from Rubrik. He has...
Ep. 101 How to leverage your podcast appearance
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is John Gilroy It is hard to believe that I have done over 1,000 podcast interviews. Some guests get four hundred impressions on LinkedIn, and...
Ep. 100 Understanding Threat Intelligence for Federal Systems
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Traditionally, a cyberattack would be identified, and the remediation process would begin. The effectiveness of this is questionable because not all a...
Ep. 99 Explainable Artificial Intelligence
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur C. Clark once wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This observation certainly applies to Artificial I...
Ep. 98 What Federal Leaders Need to Know about Cloud Computing with David Linthicum
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, you need to pull back and try to separate reality from the shenanigans. During today's interview, world-famous David Linthicum pulls back t...
Ep. 97 Infrastructure Enables Innovation
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the history of Covid and federal information technology is written, historians will talk about the amazing ability to transition to remote worker...
Ep 96 Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you use the term "data scientist" you normally think of an inarticulate introvert who is dazzled by numbers and has week social skills. Well, t...
Ep. 95 How Akamai Improves Federal Security
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Akamai has been a well know partner in many federal technology projects for many years. Some of their activities are obvious – some not as easy to s...
Ep. 94 Can the Service Mesh address Federal Challenges?
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days of the networking one could put together a simple diagram of computers, routers, and switches. The more complex it became, the mor...
Ep. 93 Predictive Identity Document Verification
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We begin the interview with statistics on fraud from several organizations, including PBS, AP, and others. Covid fraud estimates range from $80 to $...
Ep. 92 Identity Management and Digital Transformation
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Covid forced federal organizations to move to the cloud. Federal leaders discovered a confusing world of multi-clouds, public cloud, private cloud, an...