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Episodes
Ep. 91 Insights on the National Cyber Security Strategy
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Great Lakes used to have iron ore boats running from Minnesota to Ohio. The ship was not very agile but was unstoppable at 12 knots. There is a cl...
Ep. 90 Multifactor Authentication and the Federal Government
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the interview, Bryan Rosensteel applies his considerable federal experience in identification to help you understand where basic MFA can be app...
Ep. 89 Federal Websites: How to Transform the Experience
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time, surveys had meaning. However, today, if you buy a toothbrush, you are sent a five-page survey on customer satisfaction. Let us say y...
Ep. 88 Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Federal Technology
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Advances in artificial intelligence are being released every day and being proposed as solutions for federal problems. Anyone who has raised children ...
Ep. 87 How Cloud Native Can Benefit Federal IT Systems
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The federal government has been told to move to the cloud since Vivek Kundra famously coined the phrase "cloud first" fifteen years ago. Unfortunately...
Ep. 86 Privacy Enhancing Technologies
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Painting with a wide brushstroke, there are three kinds of data: data at rest; data in transit; and data in use. Today, we speak to the person who p...
Ep. 85 Cyber Security is National Security
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most listeners have heard of Palo Alto Networks. Today, we bring in Eric Trexler to give us an overview of what the venerable Palo Alto Networks has d...
Ep. 84 Is the API the Network?
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Definitions are always tough in the world of networking. The initial concept was all hardware: a group of computers connected through cards, routers, ...
Ep. 83 Protecting Your Identity with Intelligence
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last year Americans lost $10.3 billion to online crime; contrast that with the estimated $1.3 billion lost to home robberies. Today's interview with...
Ep. 82 Improving Search Results for Law Enforcement Agencies
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A wise man once said two things can be true at once. On the one hand, federal law enforcement agencies are being bombarded with data. Petabytes se...
Ep. 81 Improving Automation for Complex Federal Systems
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It seems like everybody in federal information technology was at the AWS Washington, DC event a couple of weeks ago. We didn't manage to interview T...
Ep. 80 Empowering Federal Teams to Deliver and Control their Software.
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The good news is that today's digital technology allows for seemingly infinite variations on a code; the bad news is malicious actors know this and ch...
Ep. 79 Agentless Cloud Security
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are certainly many ways to approach security in today's complex hybrid federal cloud. raditionally, a manager would look at a system and have an...
Ep. 78 What's Hot and What's Not at the AWS Summit, Washington, DC
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When 10,000 people show up to talk about cloud computing, what topics do they cover? Today, we sit down with Jeffery Kratz, Vice President, of Worldwi...
Ep. 77 The Value of Federated Governance have for Massive Data Stores
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Forty years ago, the boxer Roberto Duran famously said, "No mas." Translated from Spanish, it means, "no more." Sugar Ray Leonard was bombarding him...
Ep. 76 Federal Chief Data Officer Survey Results
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you go to Google Trends and compare "Artificial Intelligence" to "Chief Data Officer" you will find a hockey stick for AI and a pancake for Chief D...
Ep. 75 Digital Transformation Culture at the Defense Logistics Agency
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our interview is with Steve Forster, a data scientist from the DLA. Steve started in the warehouse and through years of struggle and hard work managed...
Ep. 74 Digital Transformation of an enterprise financial system
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Consider this: a few years ago, a Navy officer would have a financial question about how a program was executed, and its t took 45 days to get an an...
Ep. 73 How to Build Federal Systems for Scale and Resistance
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Covid hit, thousands of federal employees bumped up the number of visits to federal agency websites. But let's not forget the number of citizens ...
Ep. 72 How Leaders can get Value from Data Management
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With all this hype about artificial intelligence, one key component that is getting left behind is the quality of the data that is used. To use a bi...
Ep. 71 Equity and Federal Identity
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Covid prioritized identity verification. It went from the bottom of the tech stack to the top. Many federal agencies have zero trust initiatives divid...
Ep.70 How to Manage Machine Identities
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you can distill today's cybersecurity recommendations down to one word, that word me be "trust." We have Executive Orders that talk about "trust" i...
Ep. 69 Digital Adoption Platforms Save Money for Federal Websites
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When industries mature, users learn how to optimize them. For example, early televisions were huge, expensive, and black and white. Technology has...
Ep. 68 Generative AI for US Federal Agencies
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For some reason, the topic of Artificial Intelligence has embedded itself into the common mind. It is so pervasive that one might walk into a local Se...
Ep. 67 Improving Citizen Experience on Federal Websites
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you look at the Executive Orders that have been issued you can see many references to user experience. The initial order, #14058, included thirty...
Ep. 61 Identity Verification and Federal Systems
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In every spy movie, you see there is a scene where someone is in line at an airport and there is emotional music where the government agent looks at t...
Ep. 65 A Better Approach to Intelligence Analysis and Data Visibility
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our post-Covid world is full of clouds merging, remote data being collected, and a rash of new federal security initiatives. This is causing federal t...
Ep. 64 Open-Source Security and Federal Software
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the history of software development is written, they will look back at the decade that preceded 2023 as the era where developers started to pull ...
Ep. 63 Gaining insights on managing the federal hybrid cloud
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the federal government, the old news is "move to the cloud." Today, the question is, how can your agency optimize its presence in the...
Ep. 62 Advances in Threat Detection and Response
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Out of all the phrases that technology has generated in the past ten years, I think I like the phrase, "cloud washing" the most. The concept is that...
Ep. 62 Advances in Threat Detection and Response
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Out of all the phrases that technology has generated in the past ten years, I think I like the phrase, "cloud washing" the most. The concept is that...
Ep. 61 Understanding the National Cybersecurity Strategy
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In March of 2023, the National Cybersecurity Strategy was released. Lots of pundits opined a day or two after the release; rather than an immediate re...
Ep. 60 Solving a Billion Dollar Paper Problem
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the history of technology of the twentieth century is written, one of the giants will probably be Ray Kurzweil. As most listeners know, he design...
Ep. 59 How to deliver software with impact beyond mere project delivery
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you toss a baseball anywhere inside the Washington, D.C. beltway, you will probably hit a company that develops software. Well, what differentiates...
Ep. 58 An Intelligent Look at Artificial Intelligence
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence certainly has piqued the interest of the defense community here in Washington, DC. The Brookings Institution has a recent ...
Ep. 57 Dual Use Technology & the World of Operational Technology
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's interview with Mike Wiegland from Shift5 highlights how commercial technology can assist warfighters on the battlefield. Mike provides insig...
Ep. 56 Modern Databases, Feds, Flexibility
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days of the Internet, companies would design databases that could handle what they perceived as tremendous amounts of information. Memo...
Ep. 55 The value of Synthetic Data for the Software Development Lifecycle
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders at NASA know the value of simulation. Before the Rover was sent to Mars, designers ran it though many scenarios on earth. Of course, they co...
Ep. 54 Understanding the strengths and limitations of Robotic Process Automation for Federal Systems
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many phrases are bandied about that give the impression that they will solve the world's problems. You know them as well as I do: artificial intelli...
Ep. 53 How Appian solves the Process Automation Problem for the Federal Government
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Big problems need big solutions. Let us take a look at the Veteran's Benefits Administration as an example. It has been reported that the VBA complete...
Ep. 52 Cloud security for large federal organizations "If it's reachable, it's breachable"
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's interview focuses on how the commercial success of Zscaler and its hundreds of patents can help large military organizations reduce costs and ...
Ep. 51 Putting it all together: the dark web, the FBI, and federal cybersecurity.
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reliaquest is a very successful commercial company, and it has a set of skills that can be directly applied to the federal government. Today's intervi...
Ep. 50 Data Storage Strategies for Complex Federal Systems
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Federal technology leaders are pushed and pulled from many directions. On the one hand, they are expected to produce solutions that respond instantl...
Ep. 49 How to Discover, Manage, and Secure a Federal Network
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you hire a moving company, they send out a representative and they do a survey of what is in your house and give you an estimate. A much more d...
Ep. 48 Deadlines, CMMC, and the Defense Industrial Base
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the concept of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) was first developed, nobody envisioned the roller coaster ride it would take sin...
Ep. 47 – Understanding Federal Security: FedRAMP Hight, segmentation zero trust
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Akamai has been around the security community for so long that they almost deserve the term, "venerable." They first made a big splash on September ...
Ep. 46 Software Project Management and the Shift Left
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Federal leaders will attest to the statement, "Security must be top of mind throughout an application's development." Today, we sat down with Jeff G...
Ep. 45 Updating F5 for Federal Technology
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Technology changes so rapidly that, sometimes, people who are involved in federal technology may not realize how well-known companies are innovating t...
Ep. 44 Federal Cloud Transition: Data Center Shortage?
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Vivek Kundra called for a cloud-first emphasis back in 2011, he never thought that it would be so popular that a situation would arise where dat...
Ep. 43 Intelligent Automation for the Federal Government
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Years ago, one would enter a federal agency with a badge and go to work. The server was down the hall and much of the security was based on the clas...
Ep. 42 Vulnerability Management for Federal Systems
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All systems, including federal systems, are full of vulnerabilities. The question is, given a limited number of hours in the day and a limited staff, ...
Ep. 41 Leveraging Data to Make Decisions
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is all about alignment. When you hit a pothole, you need to get your car aligned; if you do not your tires will wear out and can cause an expensive...
Ep. 40 The Rise of the Machines in Federal Technology
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time scientists would dream of the day when they could have enough information to make decisions based on data. Young readers may have t...
Ep. 39 Selecting the Correct Stack for Zero Trust
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to a federal agency making the transition to Zero Trust, sometimes, ya gotta bring in the big dog. Greg Garret has written 24 business b...
Ep. 38 In a town full of secrets, the best-kept secret
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you were to do a "thought cloud" of technology, you would see the usual suspects, companies like Microsoft, AWS, and Google. Nobody would include E...
Ep. 37 Living on the Edge . . . the Secure Access Service Edge
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There was a time in American culture when "living on the edge" was a social construct. Perhaps a person was a test pilot or motorcycle racer. In ter...
Ep. 36 Federal Cybersecurity: Getting the Big Picture with Verizon's DBIR
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is not just lemmings that follow a herd off the cliff; technology professionals are garden-variety humans and subject to herd thinking as well. If ...
Ep. 34 Weaponized Files and Federal Security
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today's interview, Darin Curtis from Menlo Security gives an overview of how to protect against these kinds of threats. To describe this new catego...
Ep. 33 Hybrid Cloud Management in Today's Federal Data Landscape
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years ago, it was a major accomplishment to move an application from a federal on-premises server to the cloud. Fast forward to 2022. There is so ...
Ep 32 Reducing Risk for Federal Software Supply Chains
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Attacks on the software supply chain have grown by an average of 742% a year since 2019. It makes complete sense if you look at several factors. Years...
Ep. 31 Improving Secure Access to Federal Systems
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, success means being at the right place at the right time. BeyondTrust has been active in the world of access control for decades. They have...
Ep. 30 A Guide to Understanding Federal Identity Management
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Guidehouse is a well-known consulting company with a two-word motto, "outwit complexity." They have a track record of working with complex federal p...
Ep. 29 Cybersecurity Training for the Federal Government
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone working for the federal government knows that basic security training is mandated. Still, there are event that are reported in many agencie...
Ep. 28 Can knowledge gleaned from the Criminal Underground help protect federal agencies?
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the commercial world, companies do competitive evaluations. In fact, after hundreds of appearances on live television, I can confirm that each st...
Ep. 27 Using Technology to Build Trust in the Federal Government
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 go...
Ep. 26 Using Artificial Intelligence to Reach Federal Agency Goals
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep. 25 Controlling the Hybrid Infrastructure
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It sure looks like the federal government is starting to recognize data is a strategic asset; managing that asset given today's pace of volume and com...
Ep. 24 Federal Digital Transformation through Digital Adoption
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Ep. 23 Protecting Apps across Software as a Service Platforms
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Magicians work by misdirection. The same is true in managing federal in federal information technology. Let's say you have done your work with compl...
Ep. 22 Federal Endpoint Security
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They stopped building castles with moats and walls when technology made them useless. Today, our notions of perimeter defense are being negated by t...
Ep. 21 Graphics Processors and Reducing Cyber Risk for Federal Agencies
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The federal government is subjected to thousands of cyberattacks a day. When you combine that statistic with the tremendous gap in people that need ...
Ep. 20 Managing Apps for Federal Agencies
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
Ep. 19 More Devices than People: Managing the Madness
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A simple Google search will tell you that we now have seven billion people and over twelve million active endpoints. These are devices that are moving...
Ep. 18 Splunk's SURGe: How to Get Immense Value from a Small Group
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ep. 18 Splunk's SURGe: How to get immense value from a small group A convincing argument can be made that Splunk is a leader in analyzing machine data...
Ep. 17 Forms, Friction and Feds: How the Federal Government can Reduce Cost and Increase Flexibility by Improved Forms Management
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Digital transformation in federal information technology includes improving the citizen experience. It seems like everything you need from the federal...
Ep. 16 Artificial Intelligence & Cloud Management for Federal Applications
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is unusual to find someone with twenty years of experience in the U.S. Army culminating in a position as the Chief Data Officer of the United State...
Ep. 15 Managing Massive Data in Hybrid Clouds
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Riverbed Technology has been helping federal information technology professionals get a grip on their networks for years. They are well known for Wide...
Ep. 14 How to Optimize Federal Identity Management
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently highlighted the five pillars of a maturity model when it comes to Zero Trust: Identity...
Ep. 13 Cloud Collisions: Insights on Managing Federal Clouds
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the automobile was invented, nobody ever thought of a superhighway. After millions of cars had come off the assembly line, government leaders had...
Ep. 12 Protecting Federal Data
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Veeam has been serving large organizations for so long that many have categorized it as a company that only does backups. Well, times have changed, an...
Ep. 11 Identity Management and the Federal Government
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Thompson from Socure brings a wealth of experience to the topic of federal identity management. After a successful career in the military, he not...
Ep. 10 Supply Chain and the Federal Government
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we sit down with John Cofrancesco from Fortress Information Security to get insights on the issues with the supply chain and the federal governm...
Ep. 9 Fraud, Identity Theft, Federal Systems
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Years ago, McDonald's had a sign in front of each restaurant that said, "Millions and millions sold." It would be fair to appropriate this tagline to ...
Ep. 8 Diversity in Federal Cybersecurity
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For years people in federal information technology have been talking about "silos" of information. One of the benefits of moving to the cloud was the ...
Ep. 7 Clean Code for Federal Projects
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we sit down with Jason Goetz, Senior Director, Public Sector, Snyk to talk about securing software for the federal government. When most people ...
Ep. 6 Overcoming Challenges to Federal Cloud Transition
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jay MacMillian, Executive Vice President at Booz Allen shares his ideas on digital transformation for the federal government. The interview covers the...
Ep. 5 Applying Quantum Computing to Federal Challenges
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The word that is normally used to describe "quantum computing" is game changer. During this interview, Duncan Jones, the Head of Cybersecurity at Qu...
Ep. 4 Identity, Security, and the Federal Government
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the studio today, we welcome Julie Smith, the Executive Director of the Identity Defined Security Alliance and Yash Prakash, Chief Strategy Officer...
Ep. 3 How Network Management Fits the Federal Zero Trust Initiative
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Blue Ridge Networks has been in business for over twenty years. CEO John Higginbotham shares how network security began with untrusted networks and ha...
Ep. 1 Enterprise Transformation in Challenging Times
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the studio is Mark Forman, Executive Vice President at Dynamic Integrated Services. He has a distinguished career in and out of the federal governm...
Ep. 2 Can Microsoft help your Federal Agency Transition to Zero Trust?
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AvePoint is a well-respected Microsoft partner. In the studio, John Peluso, their Chief Product Officer, provides his thoughts on how a Microsoft plat...