Decades ago, system administrators would dream about having the storage we have today. Very few considered the ramifications of controlling and allowing access to petabytes of data that were increasing every day. This is an interview with several experts from federal and state organizations who share challenges in handling large amounts of data whose access must be carefully managed. [...]
Digital transformation is a phrase bandied about everywhere these days. Its application is everywhere from ordering coffee online to the Pentagon. Just as a point of comparison, the DoD has 27 million people with over $3 trillion in assets and over 17 business systems. The amount of complexity is overwhelming for any project involving change. Today’s interview brings together [...]
IBM and the Ponemon Institute have reported that the average breach cost in 2022 was $4.24 million. If that is used as a rough estimate, data breaches in state and local governments can be very expensive. There is a lot at risk and budgets are tight. State and local governments really have to look at leveraging what funds they [...]
Interest in machine language and artificial intelligence has been growing and growing since around 2015. It was a perfect storm where storage prices decreased, and virtualization became standard. Like most maturing industries, challenges appeared. It was found that the conclusions provided by artificial intelligence were dependent on the quality of the data it collected. This finding became so common [...]
Both federal and civil organizations are challenged with coming up with creative ways to keep and attract a modern workforce. During this discussion, federal leaders share innovations on retaining their workforce and replacing retiring employees. Paul Pietsch, Partnership for Public Service brings up some shocking statistics. In one agency, the Gen-Z makes up only 1.6% of the workforce and, [...]
IT leaders talk overcoming transition barriers, adopting the right tools and working with the most experienced vendors ahead of federal mandate requirements for IPv6 migration. Federal agencies have been mandated to migrate federal information systems and services to IPv6, the next-generation internet protocol, by the end of 2025, facilitated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. IPv4, the [...]
Federal mandates include Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies. Like many federal initiatives they provide broad guidance and enacting these lofty goals can be difficult. Today’s interview looks at leaders from the federal government, state, and local who share ways they have been able to include ESG goals in their organizations. Two of the people in the podcast are [...]
As agencies adopt mandated cloud security requirements, they’re looking for a platform that can unify compliance and cybersecurity. The federal push to cloud is an ongoing journey, and security remains a key component of cloud adoption. In fact, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture v.2 strengthened its guidance to meet cybersecurity [...]
In the commercial world companies estimate annual sales and make a budget. Hard to apply basic management 101 to the Continuous Resolution situation that many federal agencies have found themselves in the past few years. Today’s interview brings together several experienced federal professionals who give guidance on the new world of budgeting. Issues brought up include critical timing concerns, [...]
An argument can be made that the Solar Winds breach precipitated the interest in Zero Trust in the federal government. Thousands of words have been written, justly, about the incident. However, much less attention has been given to how SolarWinds has handled the situation. SolarWinds has provided us with a classic case study on how to handle a crisis. They [...]