Most people today equivalate the sum of Artificial Intelligence to one thing; ChatGPT. In this week’s episode of Feds At the Edge, we’ll bust the myth by sharing how Federal leaders are making data-driven decisions leveraging advancements in technology with a wide range of AI. We dive into the five concepts you may never have thought of but should [...]
One of the challenges of raising a child is teaching them how to share; one of the challenges of federal information technology professionals is teaching them to share. In this week’s episode, we take a look at organizations that encounter cyber threats and their efforts at sharing threat information. While this is not a new idea, Executive Orders have [...]
Executing the mission, abstracting complexity, driving for speed The new Executive Order 14-058 wasn’t issued just to make websites look good. Ensuring citizens can access information in a speedy, and safe manner is the practical aspect moving this effort forward. In this week’s episode we explore the complexities of securing the mission for an agency, even if the agency [...]
Compliance, maturity levels, edge computing. Some people think the television phrase Ron Popeil made famous, “Set it and forget it” applies to Zero Trust. Today’s discussion throws that notion out the window. Feds At The Edge is taking a deep dive into how an agency can move to the serious, constantly evolving methodology that is Zero Trust Architecture. Jennifer [...]
Technology, maturing, constant attacks, automated response. For the last ten years we’ve been discussing the maturity model, but it’s only recently that technology in hardware and software has advanced enough for the process to begin. In this week’s episode of Feds At the Edge, we hear from agency and industry leaders about cybersecurity in our post-pandemic era. We explore [...]
Over the last twenty years, the DoD has responded quickly to attacks. However, in the rapidly changing world of military communications, predictions and solutions that have resiliency or redundancy in mind are near impossible. This week Feds At the Edge explores three ways the DoD is accomplishing the remediation of issues, despite the uphill battle. Government and industry thought [...]
Trusting your network, sharing information, leveraging new tools. The DoD has targeted 2027 as the year it will make full transition to having a Zero Trust architecture in place. With an initiative that includes 91 activities and 7 pillars, they somehow will need to remain flexible because with military at the edge, in the time it takes for authentication, [...]
Over the next six weeks, Feds at the Edge will dive deep into CyberThreats 2023, and this week we are focusing in on the considerations the Department of Defense has to balance when dealing with cloud, identity management, and maintaining a secure network while undergoing improvements. Over the last 20 years, the DoD have taken a siloed approach to attack, [...]
In this week’s episode of Feds At The Edge, we sit down to hear the amazing journey to proactive cybersecurity with Travis Rosiek, Chief Technology Officer for the Public Sector at Rubrik. Spotted in high school by DISA, Travis was awarded a full scholarship which arrived on his doorstep September 10, 2001. The unforgettable day in history that came [...]
What happens if a patch means replacing a half million-dollar piece of equipment? In this week’s episode of Feds At The Edge, we are exploring the equal opportunity malicious actors see in operational technology. The good old-fashioned industrial equipment, assets and processes that are often the weakest link in the battle against cyber-attack. We’ve gathered top agency and industry [...]
In this week’s episode of Feds At the Edge, we are diving in to how the DoD implements Zero Trust Architecture. More importantly, how they are handling the gaps for those agencies who may need time, and those who may need to stretch their funding. Enter, Thunderdome. This impressively cool moniker is a project put together by DISA and [...]
Civilian agencies are modernizing systems, adopting zero trust and also considering the user experience when enhancing cybersecurity government-wide. The pandemic forced federal agencies to modernize IT quickly, as they migrated to hybrid and multi-cloud environments to support remote workers and adopted digital services to keep up with customer demand. These trends continue, yet also increase the need [...]
As the need for citizens to have better access to their personal information from benefits to loans to even FEMA assistance digitally grows, so does the need to properly identify them without it being a frustrating process. In this week’s episode of Feds At the Edge, we’ve gathered agency and industry experts who discuss the latest mandate surrounding identity management, [...]
Do you have the tools you need for when your daily log data multiplies by fifty? This is the question that the federal government faced when they moved to the hybrid cloud and became deluged with data going from 200GB to 10TB a day. The tools they had on hand weren’t built to handle a workload that large. Enter [...]
If you have been around federal technology over the last fifteen years, then you’ve heard the warnings of running out of IPv4 addresses. The collective response has been to apply duct tape and baling wire to endure with an exhaustive 4,294,967,296 addresses. But now, we’ve run out translation tricks and magic potions to make it work. Where do we [...]
Department of Defense agencies are adopting zero trust, commercial-based technologies and modernizing IT to meet evolving cyber threats. As the cyber threat landscape constantly evolves, bad actors grow in numbers and become increasingly sophisticated in their tactics and techniques. To prevent, detect and thwart emerging threats, the Pentagon is steadfast in its efforts to implement a zero [...]
The new infrastructure law will remind you of the old McDonald’s slogan, “millions and millions” served. 5.0 million open jobs in cybersecurity $1.0 billion was allocated by the federal government for grants to improve cybersecurity standards for state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies $1.6 trillion in Accounts Receivable at the Department of Education $10.5 trillion [...]
As cyber threats rise in size and sophistication, agencies are looking to zero trust to protect data and reduce the attack surface. In 2022, the White House released a federal zero trust architecture strategy, requiring agencies to meet certain cybersecurity standards by the end of FY 2024 to secure federal networks from increasingly sophisticated threats. These cyber [...]