The Future of Security

Talking Security with the Experts Updates to the FISMA Act that are making their way through Congress have the Federal IT community talking. And as usual, they&...

Talking Security with the Experts

Updates to the FISMA Act that are making their way through Congress have the Federal IT community talking. And as usual, they’re talking about it on In Depth. Former Justice CISO Dennis Heretick, Nuclear Regulatory Commission CISO Pat Howard, and Bruce McConnell, former chief of information and technology policy at the Office of Management and Budget and now the head of McConnell International were my guests to talk about where FISMA stands now, where it’s headed, and where it should go.

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They’re Not Just for Defense Any More

If you asked most people what kind of work Lockheed Martin does for the Federal government, they’d probably say “defense.” Tom Oles, their Vice President of Business Development, says that’s sort of true…but one-third of their government business isn’t related to the Pentagon. He talked about that, about the company’s Federal business portfolio, and his views on trends in the government business space.

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Happy Birthday Dipnote!

The State Department’s Dipnote blog is celebrating its first birthday. Heath Kern, founder of the blog and Public Affairs Special Advisor at State, told me about getting the blog going, and the technology involved in making it a compelling, interactive site.

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The Dipnote post I played audio from on the show

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