James Read, director policy and evaluation at the Merit Systems Protection Board, and Laura Shugrue, senior research analyst at MSPB, discuss the Board’s mission, and it’s recent findings on the probationary periods for supervisors in the federal government.

Eric Chudow, senior mitigation expert at the National Security Agency, discusses the cybersecurity strategy called “whitelisting,” and why it’s resurging in popularity at organizations.

In this week’s Federal Beat roundtable, Jason Miller of Federal News Radio, Carten Cordell of FedScoop and Adam Mazmanian of FCW, discuss the biggest headlines.