This episode will remind you of the old McDonald’s slogan, “millions and millions” served.

Did you know . . .

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 is the estimate for ransomware attacks by 2025.

When listening to this episode, you will learn approaches to these questions from all over the map and everyone from a federal official to a subject matter expert from Rubrik. By now, most government leaders know of the upcoming funding under the infrastructure funding.  The overriding theme is how to be good stewards of this new funding.  

Further, this distinguished group delves into topics like security awareness, Multi-Factor Authentication, and encryption.

One observation from Steve Hernandez, Department of Education is that today, we finally have the technology to deliver on the promise of zero trust.

Samy Bouhaouala, Accenture Federal Services observes that threat actors have the same machine language and artificial tools we have. This means we must be careful how we set up new systems.

You will be shocked when you learn of the increases in cyber insurance States have seen. There are reports of increases of as much as 500 million dollars for an annual policy. Ray Yepes, of the State of Colorado, conducted a survey and discovered that most States were self-insured. 

Adding to this increase is the fact that some insurance companies are not including ransomware in their coverage.

This interview will give you specific figures to understand the cost and challenges in the future of government cybersecurity.

 

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