CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public Sector

Join Blackberry and Carahsoft for a podcast on new cybersecurity for federal agencies. Today, federal agencies are challenged with prioritizing the data security and privacy of the American people and government amid an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape. The Cybersecurity Executive Order (CSEO) charges, “...the Federal government should lead in cybersecurity...” However, the past approac...

Google is bringing the best of their products and cybersecurity partners to help protect against malware, phishing, ransomware, and other cyberattacks. Google Cloud's Work Safer program enables public sector organizations to securely collaborate and communicate in hybrid work environments.

Watch episode three of Mission First, our Department of Defense (DoD) and National Security podcast series focusing on the mission, not products. During this session, Keith Nakasone, former deputy assistant commissioner of acquisition management within the information technology office at the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service and Federal Strategist , VMware and Cr...

With the release of OMB’s Federal Zero Trust Strategy on January 26, 2022, agencies now have guidelines for achieving the Zero Trust mandates of the Cybersecurity Executive Order. Listen to the expert panel including former Federal CISO, Danny Connelly, as they discuss pitfalls to avoid when implementing OMB’s required actions and how to quickly comply with the strategy requirements without cuttin...

In Visium’s newest podcast, Jesse Jones, Chief Architect at Visium Analytics and Joel Kelly, Director of Special Projects, joined us to provide an understanding on how TruContext™ enriches your Splunk processed data with an intuitive topological type view of the relationships amongst disparate data points.

Watch episode two of Mission First, our Department of Defense (DoD) and National Security podcast series focusing on the mission, not products. During this session, Jeremiah Sanders, Co-Founder of Kessel Run and Senior Federal Strategist, VMware and Alex Barbato, Senior Engineer, VMware Tanzu discuss:  Continuous ATO and how has it evolved into Continuous Risk Management Framework The evolution of...

Start the new year right with VMware! Tune in to hear Lindy Christian, VMware’s Channel Engagement Manager, as she discusses the benefits and updates of renewing your VMware subscriptions.

Stream AvePoint's new podcast to learn how federal agencies can leverage Microsoft 365’s collaborative power using a Zero Trust model. Topics discussed include automating policy enforcement at the workspace (Teams, SharePoint, and M365 Groups), workspace compliance, lifecycle, and permissions recertification based on data sensitivity, and intelligent reporting of exposure risk based on sensitive i...

The Biden Administration has issued an Executive Order mandating all government agencies to deploy an endpoint detection and response (EDR) program to protect their data. To protect yours, trust only the most-deployed threat hunting tool in the U.S. government: VMware Carbon Black.

Listen to experts discuss database security best practices to assist in meeting the Presidential Executive Order on Cybersecurity.

Hear this conversation between Joe Beda,  Co-creator of Kubernetes and Principal Engineer,  VMware and Paul Puckett,  Director of the Enterprise Cloud Management Office (ECMO) , U.S. Army where they discuss: The development Kubernetes and when Joe realized it would be a part of every major software conversation globally Key trends, practices, and differences happening in the public sector versus p...

The headlines are staggering. Hospitals and healthcare systems are struggling to protect against ransomware attacks, resulting in longer patient stays, delays in procedures, and ultimately, an increase in patient deaths. Although ransomware can cause serious damage, it’s not invincible. In fact, it’s only as strong as your organization’s weakest link. Why not turn the table on ransomware hackers f...

Of all the security threats that face IT, phishing stands out because it is not an attack on the technology – it is “social engineering,” getting incautious users to click seemingly innocuous links or visit seemingly harmless websites and allowing hackers to steal user names, passwords, financial data, or other information they can use. Today, phishing is usually a “gateway crime” – hackers often...

Blockchain is most commonly considered the foundation for cryptocurrency – the usual form of payment by ransomware demands – because it is a method of recording information that makes it difficult to impossible to change, hack, or cheat records of transactions. It’s a form of “distributed ledger” that records every transaction to every participant’s copy of that ledger. As a result, blockchain hol...

In the end, any IT system is only as secure as its various components. Federal, state, and local agencies have learned that the hard way, as software platform and application providers have been hacked as a way to get into government systems. The Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity issued by the White House in May dedicates Section 4 to the topic of enhancing the security of th...

Ransomware cyberattacks vaulted into public awareness with a vengeance when an East Coast gasoline pipeline shut down for days, causing a shortage and long lines at the gas pump when drivers panicked. But hospitals, schools and local governments have been dealing with ransomware threats for some time.

One of the biggest vulnerabilities state and local governments face is the huge installed base of legacy hardware and software. They are very expensive to maintain, draining resources that could be used to offer new, internet-based services. They often are riddled with security flaws, from bad code to unsecured ports –it’s next to impossible to keep up with all the patches that need to be implemen...

Listen to this podcast with BeyondTrust, MG Joe Brendler, US Army (Ret.), and Stephen M. Wallace, DISA, to understand why Privileged Access Management (PAM) is integral to secure the adoption of emerging initiatives across the government.

The FedRAMP ATO journey can be daunting for many Cloud Solutions Providers. From understanding the time and cost investments to understanding how to meet the compliance requirements, it can seem like a never-ending uphill battle. But there is a simpler, faster, cheaper way to achieve your FedRAMP ATO!

In Atlassian's new podcast, Derek Huether, Public Sector Solution Engineer with Atlassian and Dan Wilson, Founding Member and Business Development Manager with RightStar discuss how Atlassian Jira Align creates a collaborative environment to ensure that federal agencies project performance goals are met.

Join us for a discussion on securing your devices as IoT becomes a foundational component of Smart Cities moving forward.

In this podcast, we sit down with municipal IT managers and industry providers who have found a way to connect with citizens at the speed of now. Listen as panelists Akshay Malik of Philadelphia, Kevin Hood of Tableau, and Josh Green, representing Adobe, discuss how Philadelphia and other U.S. Smart Cities have improved interactions with citizens through data visualization and a streamlined user e...

Recent breaches within government agencies have proven that they face many threat vectors that need to be addressed. Having a clean supply chain is critical to developing reliable software solutions that meet or exceed customer and market expectations for security, integrity, and reliability. Micro Focus offers a comprehensive, multi-layered approach that allows us the ability to respond quickly t...

Carahsoft & McAfee Enterprise have invited two guest panelists to discuss existing Federal government frameworks for Zero Trust, the importance of placing data at the center of a Zero Trust Architecture, and best practices for meeting the requirements defined by Executive Order 14028.

Recent advancements in compute, networking, and storage technologies have highlighted high performance computing (HPC) along with putting data analytics and AI within reach for many agencies. Learn how Dell Technologies & Intel can run AI, data analytics, and advanced computing workloads on one system.