CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public Sector

The state of Colorado is undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of its IT infrastructure, aimed at achieving what the Governor’s Office of Information Technology describes as four "wildly important goals." Four major initiatives (tech transformation, broadband access, digital government services, and enhanced employee engagement) are intended to deliver more and better digital services that imp...

The state of Colorado is undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of its IT infrastructure, aimed at achieving what the Governor’s Office of Information Technology describes as four "wildly important goals." Four major initiatives (tech transformation, broadband access, digital government services, and enhanced employee engagement) are intended to deliver more and better digital services that imp...

The state of Colorado is undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of its IT infrastructure, aimed at achieving what the Governor’s Office of Information Technology describes as four "wildly important goals." Four major initiatives (tech transformation, broadband access, digital government services, and enhanced employee engagement) are intended to deliver more and better digital services that imp...

Tune in to Season 2, Episode 2 of our podcast series to hear from Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Jennifer Chang,  Senior Director, Federal Civilian  for VMware, who will discuss: Driving cultural changes across an organization Implementing the NWOW (New Ways of Working) program and how it can work for you The challenges...

A podcast series centered around important and innovative technology topics through a new and fresh lens creating an easy digest format for very complex technology. For today’s topic, our special guest is Herb Kelsey, Dell Technologies Security Strategy Program Lead from Office of the CTO. And we will spend time on Herb’s favorite topic “Zero Trust."

Tune in to Season 2, Episode 1 of our Mission First podcast to hear Mike Dent, Chief Information Cyber Security and Privacy Officer for Fairfax County Government and Craig Bowman, Senior Director – Federal at VMware discuss:  How their move to the cloud is shifting their perspectives on security  Adapting security around edge computing as increased workloads are pushed to the edge Strategic ways t...

In this podcast, Ned Miller, CrowdStrike Federal VP, and Andrew Harris, CrowdStrike’s Sr Director of Global Public Sector’s Technical Strategy, discuss how zero trust identity protection solutions help the public sector prevent data fabric breaches and reinforce legacy authentication protocols.

In this podcast, Mike Downard, President of Silicon Mountain, and Kevin Howard, Sales Manager at Carahsoft, discuss how nontechnical teams are embracing digital practices like enterprise service management (ESM) solutions through Atlassian's Jira Service Management tool to enhance daily workflow.

Insurance premiums for cyber coverage have significantly increased after a string of high-profile attacks and record setting ransomware numbers. Learn how your organization can utilize Mimecast to strengthen its cybersecurity.

Americans’ health, security, and economic wellbeing are tied to climate and weather. In a state that often faces natural disasters such as hurricanes and flooding, recovery depends on fast, secure IT resources to match manpower and machinery with the locations most in need, while delivering fast and secure assistance to victims.

The use of emerging and innovative technologies is transforming legacy systems to better respond to citizens and facilitate digital services. Using cloud-ready architectures, agile methods, and data interoperability, Florida is tapping top technology talent to redesign aging technology systems and deliver better outcomes for Floridians.

Federal, state, and local agencies stand together in the fight to prevent and recover from cyberattacks, as their communities increasingly become targets of hackers and other cyber criminals. Cybersecurity risks range from data exploitation; insider threats; third-party practices as outsourcing increases; ransomware; identity theft; and fraudulent access to state government services.

Listen in to hear Corben Leo, a Security Researcher from the Hack U.S. program, discuss some of the results. In addition, you'll learn some key differences between VDPs and bug bounty programs to better understand what each program can do for your agency. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest tech tips & tricks from industry leaders! https://www.youtube.com/user/carahtechtv FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: https://twi...

Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology at Monalytic, a SolarWinds company, and Brett Littrell, Chief Technology Officer of Alum Rock Union School District, discuss real world solutions utilizing school district case studies. Learn how Alum Rock Union School District transformed their aging technical infrastructure into a modern network with SolarWinds to meet the needs of their students and sta...

In this episode, Nikhil Gupta, Core Cyber Demo Specialist at Carahsoft, is joined by Joseph Gallop, Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager, Practitioner at Cofense. Together, they discuss new and long-standing phishing trends that challenge government agencies and contractors in 2022. In order to safeguard confidential information and effectively mitigate the risk of security breaches, public sector em...

State and local agencies see implementing zero trust architecture in their immediate future – 67 percent of state CIOs who responded to the 2021 Annual State CIO Survey anticipate that introducing or expanding a zero-trust framework will receive more attention in the next two to three years.

Cybersecurity professionals throughout all levels of government and the private sector are painfully aware of the risks to their own networks posed by third parties with authorized access – but insufficient security measures of their own. Supply chain hacks are favored by cybercriminals because they gain access to company data, as well as the ability to often breach customers’ networks.

Ransomware threats are targeting state and local agencies with increasing frequency. At the same time, more state legislatures have banned their agencies from paying ransomware. These trends are on a collision course, making protection against ransomware even more urgent.

Join Scott Pross, Vice President of Monalytic, a SolarWinds company, for a discussion on real-world solutions utilizing the Service Desk application. Listeners will learn how to stop repeating processes over and over and get more information from the end user to resolve issues quickly and set up proper workflows to get the right data in front of the right people.

Listen to the latest VMware Renewals podcast to hear Tevin Clyde, VMware Renewals, and Nick Wager, Pre-Sales System Engineer, as they explore the offers and benefits of Carahsoft’s Affinity to Infinity (A2I) VMware Renewals Partner Program.

The third session will round out our three part series where we have explored the theory behind, practical uses of and now the live performance of the threat hunting mission and the hunt forward approach to information collection and TTP proliferation. Built with the mindset of the security operator or asset owner, we’ll step you through each phase of the assessment and how best to consolidate you...

Listen to session one to hear real-life examples of teams, tradecraft, and technologies that are changing the way we see the cybersecurity situation. This first session will walk viewers through examples where those in command are making the best use of Attack Surface Analysis platforms as well as harnessing the capabilities that can be found by making better use of the current cybersecurity effor...

The second session takes a grassroots view of the threat hunting and hunt forward missions specifically looking at live fire scenarios and views from the front where convergence of IT, OT and IOT networks have been compromised.

Learn why it’s time to implement an attack resistance management strategy to find unknown risks within your attack surface – the things automated tools miss. Through continuous testing and security expertise of ethical hackers, agencies can identify critical security gaps and prioritize fixes for exploitable assets.

In January, the White House released Memo M-22-09 that mandated, "Federal security teams and data teams work together to develop data categories and security rules to automatically detect and ultimately block unauthorized access to sensitive information." Simultaneously, there has been a 44% increase in workers' use of collaboration tools since 2019. Listen to this podcast from AvePoint and Carahs...