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The Outlaw Nation Podcast Network by John RochaTony Gilroy Talks ANDOR vs ROGUE ONE, Mia Goth Cast in STARFIGHTERđ The Jedi Way: Mia Goth in Star Wars: Starfighter, Tony Gilroy talks Andor vs Rogue One,  đJoin John Rocha, Laura Kelly and Kevin Smets for this episode as they dive deep into the latest happenings in the Star Wars universe! In this episode, we discuss:⨠Mia Goth Cast as a Villian in Shawn Levy's STAR WARS: STARFIGHTER film⨠Andor Showrunner Tony Gilroy weighs in on Andor vs Rogue One ⨠Laura's Thoughts on Andor S2⨠THR's report on Filoni and Beck taking over for Kathleen Kennedy at Lucasfilm, Mark Hamill is done appearing in Star Wars , and more!2025-06-121h 03
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 235 How Tech Leaders Can Streamline Federal Contracting for Real Efficiency Gains 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 releasing so many RFIs and RFQs that it is increasingly challenging to select which ones to respond to. For example, let us say you get 60 requests. You do not have an equal chance to win any of the sixty messages. Do you assign the same amount of time to each one? Do you review each and rank the chances of success? What about the time you used in th...2025-04-2924 min
Scriptnotes PodcastThe Second Season with Tony GilroyJohn and Craig welcome writer and showrunner Tony Gilroy (Andor, Michael Clayton) for an in-depth look at crafting a second season of a hit TV show. They look at ways to find your seasonâs structure, setting your production up for success, controlling the energy your audience spends on information, and how to wrap up your story before the show eats you alive.
They also answer listener questions on what to do when a movie thatâs similar to yours is wildly successful, and whether being a movie critic could hurt your writing career.
In our...2025-04-0147 min
Scriptnotes Podcast682 - The Second Season with Tony GilroyJohn and Craig welcome writer and showrunner Tony Gilroy (Andor, Michael Clayton) for an in-depth look at crafting a second season of a hit TV show. They look at ways to find your seasonâs structure, setting your production up for success, controlling the energy your audience spends on information, and how to wrap up your story before the show eats you alive. They also answer listener questions on what to do when a movie thatâs similar to yours is wildly successful, and whether being a movie critic could hurt your writing career. In our...2025-04-0147 minThe Outlaw Nation Podcast Network by John RochaAndor S2 Trailer Breakdown, TONY GILROY Talks Star Wars's Future | THE JEDI WAYđ The Jedi Way: EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT ANDOR S2 AND THE ACOLYTE S2 FANS GET A BOOST!  đJoin John Rocha and Laura Kelly as they soldier on without Kevin Smets for this episode as they dive deep into the latest happenings in the Star Wars universe! In this episode, we discuss:⨠Our breakdown of the new ANDOR S2 trailer⨠Andor Showrunner's Hopes for ANDOR S2⨠The Acolyte S2 fans get a boost from new analytics⨠Plus,  and more!Whether you're a die-hard fan or just curious about the galaxy far, far away, this episode is packed with i...2025-03-3050 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 225 Why Identity is the First Pillar of Federal Security in the Digital Age Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Once the transition to the cloud became dominant, the importance of identity was placed ahead of permission to access apps and data. When data centers were down the hall, one could have physical access to a room and sign-on permission. The hybrid cloud, private clouds, and an interest in âalternative cloudsâ make identity the keystone of modern computing. Companies like Okta, Ping, and SailPoint work with identity and access management but re...2025-03-2519 min
Podcasting in Professional ServicesThe Federal Tech Podcast, Constellations, and Farm Kid City Kid, with John GilroyâToday we're gonna talk with a guy who did 1200 podcast episodes and give you tips on how you can be successful.On this episode of Podcasting in Professional Services, John Gilroy, host of The Federal Tech Podcast, Constellations, and Farm Kid City Kid joins the show to share his podcasting experience. In this conversation, you'll hear:What motivates John to be an active ocean swimmer, even in his 60sThe transition from radio to podcasting in the DC marketThe difference between a $25 million studio and recording from a local BBQ jointA diversified approach to podcast sponsorshipsAudio -vs- vi...2025-03-2044 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 183 Hidden Relationships in Large Data Sets 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 new way to unlock answers from a database. A typical relational database looks at information in tables. This can be fantastic for many actions, which is why...2024-10-0322 min
Home Building HubEp. 65 | Global Investment Opportunities: Insights from Dubai with John GilroySend us a textJoin us as we chat with John Gilroy about Dubai's booming property market. Learn why investors are flocking to this dynamic city and what Australian investors can gain from global strategies. Get key insights into maximizing returns in international marketsTopic timestamps1:44 - Introducing our Guest, John Gilroy.4:30 - Tell us why people are moving to Dubai?6:30 - Why are people investing in Dubai?7:50 - Dubai has both a 2033 and 2040 plan, can you shed some light on this?14:30 - What is your role?...and what do...2024-08-1945 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 168 Who do you trust? Zero Trust & the Federal Government Want to make the most out of your next podcast appearance? https://content.leadquizzes.com/lp/fk1JL_FgeQ Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn   https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com John Kindervag is the father of Zero Trust; Greg Touhill is the general of Zero Trust; today, we sit down with Dr. Zero Trust, Chase Cunningham. Dr. Chase Cunningham has a solid background for his opinions. He served in the military, has a PhD., five patents, and has written five books....2024-07-3023 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 153 Applying Tech to Proposal CreationSometimes, we must look at literature to get an understanding of the current situation for federal GWAC contractors. Let us look back to Charles Dickens with, âIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times.â Here is the scenario: your company spends a ton of time and money to get a spot on a GWAC contract. never to win any work. All your hopes and dreams of increasing business have been crushed. Today, we sit down with Brian Seagraves from Deep Point Water & Associates to take a detached view of this GWAC proc...2024-06-0325 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 152 Insights on Managing Federal DataWe are in a whirlwind of change. Data is pouring into federal agencies. A recent report indicated that data was growing at 25% a year; cloud usage at a rate of 61%; and Software as A Service an astounding 200%. Oh, did I forget to mention that Generative AI is also increasing data exploding? It is one thing to worry about data from Johnâs Doughnuts, and quite another to worry about sensitive military, financial, and health information that the federal government is charged to protect. Data. gov estimates that 250 million data sets are being used by...2024-05-2825 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 151 AI and Software DevelopmentSometimes, the most important impact of technology can be behind the curtains. Today, we will not focus on AI Deep Fakes and AI language translation, but on the impact AI on software development. Terry Miller from Karsun begins the interview with the basics of software development: collecting user stories. Traditionally, a systems analyst would interview several users to see how a software system should behave. This time-consuming process can be assisted with AI helping in assembling the details. Please note, Terry Miller will argue that AI is used as an auxiliary to humans...2024-05-2123 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 150 AI: Can it provide a safe path for federal technology?Ep. 150 Can a platform provide a path to safe AI for federal technology? About every reader knows that ServiceNow is a large company that helps the federal government with managing large systems. Today, Dr. Raj Iyer answers the question â is ServiceNow keeping up with AI to help reduce cost and improve delivery for massive federal systems? Dr. Iyer is in a unique position because of his years of experience in commercial systems and a recent stint as the CIO of the United States Army. An argument can be made that he is up to...2024-05-1426 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 148 Deep Intelligence and Critical VisibilityFederal technology has paralleled the commercial world in its expansion to millions of endpoints. On one hand, this means better information from something like an intrusion sensor. On the other hand, it means the attack surface has just expanded exponentially. It has come to a point where there has been a normalization of breaches. Unfortunately, this does not mean one can neglect protecting your agency from external threats. ZeroFox specializes in understanding external threat security. They have been around since 2013 and âZeroâ in on protecting apps, data, people, domains, and APIâs. During...2024-05-0723 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 147 Tech Communities how to build and sustainAfter hundreds of interviews with tech innovators I have concluded they are all trying to accomplish the same thing: tell how they can help get the word out that they may have a slice of the solution for federal information technology. One of the best ways to âget the word outâ is through a community of interest. During the interview today, Derek Weeks details his success in forming a community around Development Operations, or DevOps. Â In fact, he has published a book detailing that wildly successful endeavor:Â Unfair Mindshare LINK One of the keys is to lis...2024-05-0229 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 146 Tactical Edge NetworkThe federal government has a myriad of technological challenges: legacy systems, Zero Trust, and even maintaining existing equipment! Most companies who work in that environment solve problems from a traditional office, or, even more comfortably, a home office. Unfortunately, life at the tactical edge is not that easy. Today, we dive into the tactical edge network with Sumner Lee, the CEO of a company called Fuse Integration. He started his career at the U.S. Naval Academy and has served in a variety of different geographical environments. As a result, he has an...2024-04-3023 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 145 DDOS Attacks & Federal AgenciesCybersecurity threats are like fashion; wait a few years and they come back in style. The Internet was designed to take a series of digits and resolve them to a website address. This was deemed the Domain Name Service, or DNS. In 1996, we saw the first malicious actor flooding a system with an attack. This was called a Distributed Denial of Service Attack, or DDOS. Over the years new methods of attack have proliferated and DDOS has taken a back seat. However, the number of endpoints has risen exponentially. It certainly looks like we are...2024-04-2519 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 144 Process automation and no code platforms AppianAppian Corporation is a 25-year-old technology company that focuses on improving process automation for large organizations. Once a year they have an annual conference for developers and partners. They rotate this meeting all over the world, we are lucky enough to have them meet in Washington DC where we have the chance to sit down with one of Appianâs co-founders, Michael Beckley. During the interview Michael Beckley covered topics like the impact of artificial intelligence on process automation; process automation and acquisition professionals; and how to improve process automation. Appian Corporation was one of th...2024-04-2321 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 143 Selling to the feds (Bonus episode) Breaking into the federal technology marketplace.In connecting with some new listeners, I learned that some have never sold to the federal government and listened to the podcast to see how other companies manage to work with federal agencies in reaching agency goals. Well, it seems time to pull back with a bonus episode on how to sell technology to the federal government. To accomplish this task, I looked for a person with twenty years of experience in public sector marketing. The logical choice was Brian Chidester. He has worked for many companies in the past two decades and, as a bonus, has...2024-04-1627 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 142 Artificial Intelligence applied to Threat IntelligenceNot all threats to the United States are discussed in English. That simple concept is well known in the intelligence community; however, making an obvious statement and being able to understand the nuances of a foreign language is a different matter. Todayâs interview is with John Weaver, the Chief Strategy Officer for a company called Babel Street. The company began in 2009 with its name recognizing its ability to understand languages. From this humble beginning, it has grown into a powerhouse for looking at open-sourced information and doing advanced analytics. During the interview, John Weaver ta...2024-04-0925 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 141 Data privacy: the Data Behind the DazzleArtificial Intelligence is at the phase where federal and commercial technology leaders are amazed by novel model architectures. Each one can perform a function like data preprocessing, feature extraction, or prediction. The demonstrations are impressive; today we look at the data behind the dazzle. Adam Kowalski from proximal has spent years helping organizations follow a data-centric AI approach. During the interview, he expands on having high-quality, relevant data has precedence over any model architecture. One weakness of generative AI systems is they can be subject to bias. You may have insufficient data. Taking a data-centric...2024-04-0227 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 140 Getting Value from Massive Federal Data SetsCheap storage and fast Internet have made data collection cheap and fast. It is no wonder that we have federal agencies that are drowning in data. Some will argue that the federal government is the largest collector of data in the world. That may be a fantastic fun fact that will dazzle your neighbors, but how is that data being used to move forward the goals of the agency? Today, we sat down with Jason Green from Virtru. He brings his considerable experience to bear when he describes how agencies can optimize that...2024-03-2621 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 139 Applying Generative AI to improve citizen servicesIn 2021 the federal leaders recognized a problem with citizen experience on federal websites. As a result, Executive Order 14058 was released dedicated to improving citizen services for federal technology. However, a 2023 McKinsey & Company report states the average score for federal services is only 31%. Justin Fessler from Yext appears on the Federal Tech Podcast to offer some insights on how to improve the citizen experience, especially as it pertains to search. Everyone has laughed at the misleading results that a search engine gives. Everyone has opinions. It is one thing when you search for some...2024-03-2126 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 138 Is Identity a 10-billion-dollar problem?The Federal Trade Commission recently estimated that nationwide fraud tops ten billion dollars. Most of the efforts to stop this abuse start with identification. However, the federal response has been weak. Today, we have a former federal leader and current Vice President and Head of Public Sector Strategy for Society on the podcast, Jordan Burris. He opens with the obvious â if malicious actors are leveraging artificial intelligence to attack identities, then the only logical response is to use AI against AI. AI allows malicious actors to assemble identity information for fast access. Recent rep...2024-03-1927 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 137 How Artificial Intelligence can help the WarfighterChatGPT has overwhelmed the headlines in the past few months. It has brought the concept of artificial intelligence to the forefront of many discussions. Like everybody talking about swimming in the Olympics and then forgetting about it for four years. Well, Primer.ai has been deeply involved in artificial intelligence since its inception seven years ago. It did not start with creating a bot for a site selling shoes, it got its start from I-Q-Tel and has a laser focus on helping the defense community apply technology to real-world problems. The company has deep relationships...2024-03-1222 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 137 Can Codeless Software Help Feds Reach Agency Goals?In most of my interviews, I sit down with a company and talk about innovation in solving federal technology goals. Today, a twist. Sonny Hashmi was at the center of the battle for improving federal technology. For the past three years, he was the Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the GSA. This has given him a unique perspective on what the bottlenecks are in streamlining federal technology. He dealt face-to-face with issues like Zero Trust, remote work, and digital innovation. After looking at a myriad of issues, he decided that the way to...2024-03-0726 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 135 Networking at the Speed of LightEveryone reading this has seen the movie Top Gun with Tom Cruise and heard the classic phrase, âThe Need for Speed.â Well, a desire for speed is not limited to Naval Aviators. People in federal technology may not have call signs but need to optimize communication speed between data centers. If you were to stand in front of a whiteboard with a bunch of enterprise architects, they would dazzle you with CPU and GPU speeds. Memory tricks with virtualization give you tons of memory. However, at the end of the day, the real choking point is the conne...2024-03-0521 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 134 Is Automation, branching logic, and optimizing pathsAn American poet once wrote about reaching a fork in the road and he considered which path to take.   When one attempts to consider branching logic and automation in complex technical systems, there is a lot of consideration given to which path to take. There may be lessons to be learned from Robert Frostâs 25-line masterpiece.    Todayâs discussion is with Thomas Kinsella, Chief Customer Officer and Co-founder of a company that focuses on improving automation. It is appropriately called Tines. Thomas Kinsella was asked to discuss a typical day in the life of...2024-02-2925 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 133 Champions of innovation instead of captives of compliance?Today we sit down with Susan Kidd and Valinder Mangat and discuss FedRAMP. Some will argue that FedRAMP is an unruly thirteen-year-old. Although FedRAMP has authorized over three hundred public service cloud providers, there is much work to be done. For example Valinder Mangat opens the discussion by noting that we have approximately five hundred applications in the pipeline. We have a situation where manually reviewing compliance is going to be too difficult. As a result, FedRAMP is making changes. They are starting to automate the process, causing companies to become familiar with a new...2024-02-2720 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 132 Enhancing Collaboration in Federal SystemsIf you were to take a class in Data Management 101, you would walk into the classroom on the first day and be bombarded with terms like data lake, data warehouse, and data mart. Phew. Where to begin? Let us jump to a federal agency. They are being deluged with data from low code no code, big application platforms, and let us not forget legacy applications that are not in the cloud. How to manage this ball of data confusion. Once it is overseen, how can an agency share information with outsiders to allow for data collaboration? 2024-02-2223 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 131 Exploring and Understanding DataA recent study by Deloitte indicates that 67% of executives struggle with data analytics. The knight in shining armor that offers a rescue is artificial intelligence. Todayâs interview pours the promise of artificial intelligence into both ends of the spectrum: qualifying data sets that are being used and, subsequently, producing explainable results. The headline overview of artificial intelligence involves writing a report by ChatGPT. Although that may be true, the article will be derivative and will not move the ball intellectually. You will hear Kyle Rice discuss how Virtualitics can use artificial intelligence met...2024-02-2019 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 130 Reducing Risk in the Hybrid Cloud through IdentificationWe begin this episode with a shocking statistic:Â 80% of hybrid cloud breaches involve credential abuse. During the interview, Jimmy McNary from Semperis unpacks the whole concept of protecting identities in the hybrid cloud. The interview covers a wide range of topics. First, we start by taking a view of how large systems have evolved. Larger systems tend to have two or more identity processes, and Active Directory from Microsoft has a 90% share of that overall market. Secondly, some identity systems can use outdated Identification Access Management systems. Thirdly, we have employees a...2024-02-1519 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 125 The Secure Hybrid EdgeWhen people think of Amazon Web Services, they normally think of a data center. This was certainly top of mind when AWS hosted 10,000 at its Public Sector Summit in 2023. Today, we go in a different direction. Dave Rubal is a well-known innovator in the Washington DC technical community. He has decided to throw his hat into the ring with something called the Secure Tactical Edge. It makes sense. If you look at how storage and computing are changing. In a recent study, IDC predicts that in the future 75% of data will be collected at the âed...2024-01-3022 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 123 Is Artificial Intelligence limiting the Value of Process Mining?AI? Process mining? We owe it to the listeners to put the strange title into perspective. Some will argue that a federal agency is a collection of business processes. For example, a company turns in its taxes; a laboratory applies for a grant; and even federal agencies must comply with cybersecurity requirements. Some will label this process management. Because the federal government deals in billions of dollars these processes can be quite complex. Experts have evolved who can examine these processes and determine ways to improve the process. Because there are stacks and stacks of...2024-01-2320 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 120 How to Improve User Experience on Federal WebsitesOn December 13, 2021, an Executive Order titled âExecutive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government.â   This initiative reflects the greater commercial experience. Because people are now so comfortable with transactions on a phone that customers are using sites that present as âuser friendly.â  When combined with the Covid information that the federal government was presenting, the idea of improving the user experience only makes sense. Thelma Van is an articulate and experienced professional with user experience. During this interview, she takes the topic from a high level the level of the click...2024-01-1129 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp 119 CMMC & the Defense Industrial Base â Are You Ready?DoD tossed the revisions to the OMB; the 300,000 people in the DIB are waiting with âbated breath to see what it looks like in the Federal Register. Will it be a âfinalâ rule? Will it be an âinterimâ rule? The first paragraph sounds like an academic dispute in an ivory tower; that âtower talkâ is particularly important for the 300,000 companies that comprise the defense industrial base. Today, sit down with Kevin Hancock from Exostar. He will give you his thoughts on this important piece of federal regulation. If you wanted to classify this transition as revolution or...2024-01-0919 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 118 An update on Zero Trust for the Federal GovernmentThere was a time when a âsnapshotâ of a federal system was taken, and its security posture was evaluated based on the moment in time. That may have been a tolerable solution when a network consisted of two dozen personal computers and a server down the hall. However, this superficial approach will not work with todayâs networks in constant change. For example, data is exploding and entering systems from a wide variety of portals. Add to that the devices that deliver that tsunami of data are doubling and tripling themselves. During this interview, Jonathan Trull...2024-01-0423 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 117 Putting Agile Software Development in Work Boots for the Federal GovernmentThousands of books have been written about agile software development since the release of The Agile Manifesto back in 2001. It was a noble, but frustrating concept two decades ago. They really did not have the tools to have informal teams combine to complete complicated software development projects. For example, if your team were in one building, you could meet daily and provide updates on agile topics like product backlog and continuous integration. This face-to-face approach hit a wall when team members were remote. Back in 2006, the founders of Bluescape saw the problem and star...2024-01-0223 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 116 The role of no code, low code for federal ITThe world is exploding with data and the need for systems to manage it. Unfortunately, we are not seeing a commensurate growth in people who are getting trained in software development. Letâs state the obvious: the need for coding is driving companies to look at ways to reach project milestones creatively. Companies like Nintex offer what they classify as no code, low code solutions. Essentially, they look at ways to systemize code creation. Letâs put this concept into perspective. In 1999 Salesforce popularized the concept of software-as-a-service. It became the worldâs largest software firm in 202...2023-12-2626 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 115 How can Google help Federal Agencies?One of my goals in âFederal Tech Podcastâ is to let federal leaders get an idea of what new companies and ideas are available to help them reach their goals. Well, everybody knows Google. This is an interview with Leigh Palmer from Google to bring to light some unknown areas of Google. Leigh provides Google's perspective on major cloud issues, like defining âcloud nativeâ and giving her opinion on the hybrid cloud. She thinks that federal leaders should look at the success Google has had with commercial organizations. To accommodate that knowledge transfer, Google P...2023-12-2125 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 114 Improving Digital Adoption for Secure Federal TechnologyEp. 114 Improving Digital Adoption for Secure Federal Technology Commercial enterprises and the federal government have a challenge in managing the tremendous tsunami of data that has been released in the past few years. On top of that, federal agencies are under an unfunded mandate to adopt Zero Trust for all its systems. During this interview, Billy Biggs from WalkMe suggests that Artificial Intelligence may provide solutions to this complex problem. He begins by addressing the concept of digital automation. For example, when a person requests time off, they may have to engage five separate systems...2023-12-1923 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 113 MGM, CISA, and non-human entitiesJosh Brodbent has an amazing technical background. When he was still in his teens, he started a company that managed services. For the past twenty years, he has immersed himself in the world of technology with a particular focus on ICAM and cyber security. During todayâs interview, we tapped his technical expertise to comment on some trends in cybersecurity that can impact the federal government:Â the MGM hack and CISA updates. The MGM attack was a curious combination of old-school methods and artificial intelligence. According to reports, a malicious actor used a telephone call to...2023-12-1424 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 112 Going from Observability to Deep ObservabilitySome will argue that providing cybersecurity to a federal agency is a balancing game. On the one hand, you must encrypt network traffic; on the other hand, you provide a mechanism where this encrypted traffic is inspected. This must be done in compliance with many regulations and not have any impact on the speed of the network. Sounds easy when a group of software developers are arguing around a white board. However, in the real world this task must be accomplished in a rapidly changing environment in the hybrid cloud. Systems are under attack daily; mountains of...2023-12-1220 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 111 Gaining a Deeper Understanding of CMMCIn Calvinball, the rules were always changing. When it comes to the DoDâs Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, it seems to look increasingly like Bill Wattersonâs masterpiece, Calvin and Hobbs. Todayâs interview is with Dr. Amy Williams from Coalfired Federal. She has years of experience in the nuances of CMMC and has a strong academic background to be able to understand complex topics and present them in an understandable manner. Amy begins the interview with the range of activities that companies have regarding CMMC compliance. Some companies have invested thousands of hours in prepar...2023-12-0727 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 110 Visibility and Federal NetworksIn the early days of computer networking, one was taught to make the network hard on the outside and soft in the inside. A more popular variation on this concept was your network should be like a castle with a moat around it to prevent entry. Well, both metaphors have been destroyed. Today, you would be naĂŻve if you did not assume the bad guys are inside your network. The proposed solution is, of course, zero trust. However, you do not flip a switch and have a zero-trust network assembled. Before the world ushers i...2023-12-0525 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 109 When Enterprise Detection and Response isnât enough.Traditionally, a threat was detected, and a remediation plan was deployed. This is classic Endpoint Detect and Response (EDR). Would that life be that easy. Today, we have malicious actors using generative Artificial Intelligence to slightly alter code, so it doesnât resemble previous attacks. This kind of eliminates the âdetectionâ part of EDR. This isnât rare anymore. In fact, in August of 2023 Deep Instinct did a study where it concluded that there was a significant increase in cybersecurity attacks fueled by generative Artificial Intelligence. Some findings ¡      75% increase in attacks last year ¡      85...2023-11-2824 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 108 Federal IT and Collisions in SpaceEveryone who has watched everything from Star Wars to Star Trek has never encountered some of the problems we see in space today: collisions and space junk. It just doesnât make for a good story on the big screen. However, the reality is that there will be 30,000 satellites launched before 2030 and we are encountering challenges in what is called situational awareness. In this application, situational awareness is the concept that a satellite must know where it is heading, and whether other objects in space may be on a collision course. This is such a comp...2023-11-2125 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 107 Data in MotionToday, we have Will Laforest from Confluent explain how federal leaders can harness the power of data streaming. We all know that data has exploded since the advent of cheap storage, remote computing, and the proliferation of the Internet of Things.  Several lessons have been learned. First, just because you have petabytes of data doesnât mean it can help in making decisions; second, if you delay acting on that data you can leave your agency vulnerable. The Federal Data Strategy recognizes these concepts. In this interview, Will LaForest unpacks the idea of getti...2023-11-1621 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 106 Federal Spend ManagementKenny Rogers once had a popular song where he sand, âThereâs time enough for countinâ when the dealinâ is done.â Well, there was a lot of spending during Covid and now is the time to reflect on how we could have optimized that spend. In the studio today is Tom Voshell from Coupa. He will bring a new perspective on how to efficiently allocate resources. The focus is not on shopping for the best price; the emphasis is to admin that acquisition is a complex process and systems should be administered to make sure the spend is...2023-11-1423 min
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awarenessEp. 105 The Value of Notifications for Cyber and Physical ThreatsDonald Rumsfeld is famous for saying there are âunknown unknowns.â Todayâs interview with OnSolve takes this concept down a practical road: once something Is known, how can you quickly inform people of the issue? When it comes to the federal government, notifications can range an incredible gamut. A systems administrator needs to know if a server is malfunctioning in a data center; a FEMA administrator needs up-to-date information on weather conditions; satellite operators need to know if a collision is imminent. OnSolve has been helping commercial organizations as well as the federal government since 1998. Our...2023-11-0924 min