Today’s current events sharpen everyone’s focus on how the United States military can cooperate with other allies. Jeffrey Phelan from Rubrik leads a discussion among two American leaders and Brigadier General Crossfield from the United Kingdom.

Each one of them comments about four key elements: security, interoperability, data sharing, and data as a structural asset. Each person presents concerns about each issue.

In 2021 the White House issued its Executive Order on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce. This is a conversation that addresses the goals of that initiative. The discussion includes a healthcare informatics professional and two medical doctors who look at the Veterans Administration patient experience. Topics include equity, diversity, and telehealth.

Google has been using Zero Trust for six years, the Executive Order from the White House has finally gotten behind this cybersecurity best practice. The question is, how can federal information leaders apply those concepts to an estimated 1.8 million federal employees?

This is a discussion that includes experiences from three federal leaders and a battle-hardened commercial subject matter expert

Today’s federal leaders pull back the curtains of deploying zero trust in a federal environment. Their advice is tempered by a well-known cybersecurity professional, Patrick Sullivan from Akamai.

Steven Hernandez begins the discussion by offering some advice rarely given. He explains that the old paper-based system was painful. Documents would not be returned to the appropriate place; records got lost; documents could be copied. So, when today’s federal technology managers complain about the difficulty in implementing Zero Trust Architecture, please remember where this discussion began.