CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public Sector

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...

Listen to FCW, Keeper Security, and Carahsoft’s latest podcast on the topic of "Securing every user, every application on every device." This episode is an extension of Keeper Security’s presentation at FCW’s recent ICAM Workshop.

Join us to learn how several leading federal research organizations leverage the power of the Box Content Cloud to power their R&D missions.

Although no monitoring architecture is perfect, most monitoring issues can be traced back to avoidable gaps. Join Monalytic Vice President of Technology Scott Pross to learn how to find these problematic blind spots and mitigate “unknown” gaps before they impact valuable uptime, so teams can become proactive in resolving issues before disruptions happen.

On behalf of VMware and Carahsoft, we would like to welcome you to today’s podcast focused on VMware Horizon Renewals, we are lucky enough to have Nick Wager, our Pre-Sales System Engineer, as he discusses everything you need to know about VMware Horizon.

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) are both important roles within any organization but can have differing views and challenges when delivering technology and services for their City. This session will explore the complex relationship between the CIO and CISO and how better understanding the other's perspectives and priorities can help accomplish the...

Government organizations increasingly rely on third parties to help support operations, their employees and in many cases the public they serve. While it is possible to outsource many activities to third parties, organizations retain the risks associated with their third-party relationships. This session will focus on why organizations need to deeply understand the risks third-party providers pres...

With the constant change in technology and the rising cyber threats, government organizations struggle to understand and translate cyber risks into the context of risk. Organizations can be overwhelmed by the magnitude, velocity and complexity of existing and emerging cyber risks. This session will focus on the challenges and yet opportunities government organizations have to determine assets crit...

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes a $1 billion State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. This is an exciting opportunity for State and Local governments to collaborate and align strategic cybersecurity priorities. However, there are still many unknowns associated with this funding opportunity. This session will explore the Federal, State and Local government expectations of th...

A successful resiliency program aligns your impact analysis, continuity planning, IT disaster recovery planning, crisis management and incident response activities with your organization's broader business strategy and objectives. Resiliency requires building processes and technologies that naturally adapt to adverse conditions, make mid-course corrections, and avoid many of the negative impacts o...

Trustwave Government Solutions Managed Security Services (MSS) is the combination of the industry’s best preventive and detective tools under a world-class managed services umbrella with unrivaled global threat intelligence.

Join Carahsoft and Riverbed Technology for an informed and engaging discussion led by Donald Kyzar , former CIO, Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General and Marlin McFate , Riverbed’s Public Sector CTO about how federal agencies can cost effectively ensure the productivity, performance, and experiences of end users, applications, remote workforces, citizen-facing services, and IT inves...

Stream Venafi’s latest podcast to hear from former USPS CISO, Greg Crabb as he presents his analysis and recommendations for Improving Your Federal Cybersecurity Practice in 2022. In this podcast, Greg Crabb will review the impacts of recent events and makes recommendations for planning for 2022.

Threat actors are evolving, preying on end users with clever, relevant, and timely phishing attacks, with no signs of slowing down or stopping. Listen in to hear how agencies can bridge the gaps in the prioritization of investments in phishing protection solutions.

In our rapidly changing digital world, agencies must evolve security strategies. A goal of Zero Trust is to create a security and network architecture that is dynamic, adaptable, and protected. The Executive Order on Cybersecurity has moved the term “Zero Trust” from a buzzword to a much-needed baseline for action planning around how we secure agency data and systems. Agencies must leverage Zero T...

Zero Trust is essential for modern security architecture and a core protection framework for agile growth. Unlike old models that assume a level of trust once an asset is approved, Zero Trust never stops reviewing the asset as a potential threat. With this framework in mind, the White House released a new Executive Order to implement Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) strategies across all federal agen...