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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Complex environments exist in commercial organizations and the federal government. In a typical fashion, humans resist change until an incident force restructuring. In this case, the change of design will be costly. During today's interview, Nick Pesce says t...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Cybersecurity professionals like to talk about data "at rest" and data "in transit."  They never mention how exactly this concept of "in transit" takes place. Once upon a time, in a data center far, far away, one could take a database and move it easily. Kind...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com We all know that in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. A couple of years later, a map maker named Americo Vespucci made quite a splash with a new map. This has a direct parallel with today's information technology. Columbus really did not "discover" anythi...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com We have all heard that the phones we carry around have more computing power than was used in the Apollo moon mission. Breaking news: these powerful devices in our pockets are vulnerable to attacks of which we cannot dream. We can just pick up our phones and r...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Malicious actors are taking advantage of AI and the federal government. As a result, we are in a strange Wack-a-Mole game in which applying AI for defense has become so complex that each application seems to require specific skill sets. Today, we sit down wit...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com In Frank Herbert's classic Dune, Paul Atreides's martial arts instructor discusses knife fighting and a "feint within a feint." Today, we apply for this martial art tactic in federal information technology. Malicious actors are flooding networks with false at...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com In 1967 the movie Cool Hand Luke gave us this famous quote, "what we have here is a failure to communicate." Surprisingly, this adage may apply to federal technology as well. If a federal leader allows secure information to be communicated, they can get fired...

  While everybody is focusing on Artificial Intelligence, malicious actors are going after the soft underbelly of modern technology: operational technology, or OT.   Today, we take a look at the increasing threat of cyber-attacks on operational technology (OT) systems, which are often not built with security in mind. Operational Technology is represented by control systems, logic controllers, and...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Using a phone to read or communicate has become so standard that church people are expected to read scripture with their phones. Using mobile devices to transmit secure information. Traditionally, secure communication was based on desktop systems; today, we n...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com   When Qlik was founded in 1993, hard drives were measured in megabytes, and the Internet was primarily text-based. If lucky, you could get information in structured columns and formats. Fast forward thirty years, and some estimate YouTube alone has 4.3 petab...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com With public speaking, everyone has butterflies before they begin; instructors tell speakers to get them to fly in formation. When it comes to tools for cybersecurity, we have a similar situation – you may have End point Detection and Response, Extended Detect...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com   Ep 196 How to take a Federal Network Above and Beyond Today, we see our network being pushed and pulled in every direction: remote users demand access, millions of endpoints must be managed, and wireless networks abound. The Internet we use every day was de...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com   Federal technology leaders operate in a confusing world. On the one hand, they must grant access to data that is needed by users; on the other hand, they must comply with security requirements that severely restrict that access. Craig Mueller from Varonis o...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Our guest today is Jonathan Alboum, the Federal CTO for ServiceNow Federal. This interview should begin like Mission Impossible movies. "Jonathan, your mission, should you accept it, is to describe all the variations ServiceNow serves federal technology leade...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Everyone awake in biology class remembers the difference between a somatic and an autonomic nervous system. (Cheat sheet: You can control somatic, but the other kicks in without knowing.) What does this have to do with federal information technology? Today, w...

Ep 192 Forensic Analysis and Digital Footprint Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Cellebrite is a company that earned its stripes in the commercial world with its ability to find a needle in a haystack. In other words, they have developed an ability to sift through mountains of data, find the...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Google's public sector has exploded into the federal technology marketplace. Today, we recapitulated the recent Google Public Sector event and tried to understand the reasons for the success. Our guest is Troy Bertram, Executive Managing Director of Google's...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Humans can be easily deceived. You look at an iceberg and think that is all you have; the same approach can be applied to federal websites. At first glance, you notice the visual and do not understand how the website may be providing valid information or if t...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Robb Wong helps clients at Deep Water Point & Associates better understand the U.S. Small Business Administration. They recently announced that Fiscal Year 2023 had a record-high 28.4 % of federal contracts to small businesses. Robb is in the perfect position...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com The federal government is the largest employer in the United States, employing approximately three million people. It buys everything from rubber bands to rockets. In the area of technology, it buys everything from toner for a copier to communications to a sa...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Joel Krooswik from Gitlab has seen more code reviews than he can count. He has seen duplicate code, insufficient data, and insecure code. "Work harder" may be the maxim in the NFL, but this is a fool's errand regarding software development. Traditionally, a c...

Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com Last year, we were all dazzled by Artificial Intelligence vacuuming up words to spit out text, collecting code, and generating code. Well, it's time to see if those parlor tricks can be applied to federal work. Bob Ritchie is a self-proclaimed "code warrior"...

John Gilroy on LinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com When it comes to preparing for a hurricane, the federal government has FEMA, NOAA, and a wide range of recovery options. However, we all know quantum is coming down the road, and many are not prepared for what will come. And it will come. We do not know when. Serious s...

  John Gilroy on LinkedIn    https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com If you read federal mandates, "continuous monitoring" is becoming popular. If you type the phrase into Google Trends, you will see a drastic rise in the past five years. However, very few people can detail ways to implement this noble policy. Today, we sit down with B...

John Gilroy on LinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www. Federaltechpodcast.com History books will document the origin of the relational database at around 1970. About a decade later graph technology was introduced but it has taken decades for the cost of storage to go down and the ability to compute to go up. Finally, we can take advantage of a n...