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Host Dave Wennergren talks with two former government leaders on the challenges and opportunities facing the federal market as we look forward to 2023.
Shawnte Singletary, the deputy director of the Division of Security and Privacy Compliance in the Office of Information Security and Privacy Group at CMS, said the desire for software-as-a-service is driving new security assessments.
Current and former federal technology experts offer their take on why House lawmakers will be more active with oversight and what are some of the emerging hot topics over the next 12 months.
Current and former federal technology executives say software supply chain security emerged as one of the biggest challenges last year given both the attention by the White House and ongoing cyber concerns.
Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana says among her top priorities for 2023 is break down silos, share lessons learned and scale best practices across the IT community.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is line for another budget boost, while lawmakers are also reauthorizing CISA’s marquee cyber defense program for another year.
Paul Puckett, the former director of the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) in the Army’s CIO office, said the cloud is not only demonstrating value, but are also fundamentally changing the way that the Army looks at requirements, organizational alignment and incentive structures.
The Army expects it'll take about a year to get everyone on the virtual desktop capability.
Cloud computing became a major technology strategy for the government more than 10 years ago. To help agencies ensure cloud security, the GSA set up a program called FedRAMP, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The basic idea was, a vendor with FedRAMP certification for one agency could be trusted by other agencies for a given product. The program has come a long way.
The ability to quickly spin up a new app or access compute on demand are typical of the capabilities that make cloud’s OpEx cost model attractive. AWS and Commvault experts share tips on how to make the most of that model long term.
For today’s hybrid environments, with an impetus on achieving zero trust, agencies must apply new tactics to ensure security extends into and across cloud instances. The Federal Drive’s Tom Temin talks best practices with Akamai’s Patrick Sullivan.
You know what they say when people “assume.” Well, it’s best not so make assumptions about security provided by cloud service providers. We talk with experts from Dell and ThunderCat to learn best practices to keep your cloud instances safe.
What’s needed for agencies to improve their return on investment in cloud? We talk with Pluralsight’s Drew Firment to understand ways to democratize the requisite cloud literacy and knowledge that he says are critical to cloud success.
The Pentagon expects to get the ordering process for new JWCC services off the ground quickly now that awards have been issued to four companies, but each task order could take longer to process than DoD originally anticipated.
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