The GovBrief

When it comes to security, government agencies can never be too careful. From Solarwinds to Microsoft Exchange, federal organizations have faced a year of breaches that have set off the clear need to rethink their security posture. And they’re turning to AI for assistance.

How are they doing it? That’s what we discuss in this episode of Machine Momentum, a podcast where we aim to demystify artificial intelligence and machine learning for government leaders.

Artificial Intelligence: Two words we’ve all heard before. But when asked to actually explain what this technology does and how it impacts our lives, how many people can offer up a comprehensive answer?

Not too many, it turns out. It’s time to change that. Introducing Machine Momentum, a podcast where we aim to demystify artificial intelligence and machine learning for government leaders once and for all.

On this episode, Constance Sayers, President of GovExec, sits down with Jim Smid, Chief Technology Officer of Iron Bow Technologies, to discuss what AI is — and what it isn’t.

As government agencies adopt new technologies and approaches to modernize their mission, they’re increasingly relying on trusted partners in the public sector, academia, ventures, startups and industry to get them there.

But how exactly are government innovators finding these partners and creating relationships? What’s the lingua franca among partners, and how do you speak the love language of the decisionmaker? That’s what we'll discuss on the second episode of The Federal Innovator, a podcast for and about the innovators taking on the biggest challenges in the federal government — and making change that is more human, simple and enduring.

On this episode, Sandeep Patel, director of HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority’s Division of Research, Ventures, and Innovation, or DRIVE, joins co-hosts Tim Irvine, managing director and Accenture Federal Digital Studio lead, and Stephanie Wander, deputy director and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

2020 was a transformative year, if nothing else. Going forward, as agencies look out at the next normal, they are facing a more remote workforce and digital government. Protecting and managing these more distributed networks will require new architectures — this is what TIC 3.0 promises to do. So how can agencies tap TIC 3.0 to bolster the future of agency operations?

That’s exactly what we’ll discuss on the premiere episode of our Building the Future of Government. On this episode, host Craig Hill, distinguished systems engineer in the U.S. Public Sector CTO’s Office at Cisco, will explore the ins and outs of TIC 3.0 with Chris Hocker, Consulting Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems. To learn what TIC 3.0 is, how to employ it, and how to prepare for transformation, check out the full episode

Cybersecurity is an ongoing battle for agencies. As IT environments change and become less about the perimeter and more about the user, agencies are faced with the challenge of a new security environment alongside the task of trying to outpace malicious actors that are rapidly creating more sophisticated threats. A Zero Trust approach can help. In this episode, we’ll talk through what agencies need to know about security as they continue on their digital transformation journeys and how they can work with trusted vendor partners, like Cisco, to help stay ahead of threats.

This is what we’ll discuss in the third and final episode of “Building the Future of Government,” a three-part podcast series that seeks to lay out a roadmap for what agencies need to know to lay a path to government operations of the future. In this episode, host Craig Hill, distinguished systems engineer in the U.S. Public Sector CTO’s Office at Cisco talks with Chad Mitchell, technical solutions architect for U.S. Public Sector at Cisco about Zero Trust and how the approach can tackle security across agencies.

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The future of government is digital — but getting there requires agencies to adopt a plethora of new technologies and ways of working. This new way of working requires new network architectures. Enter secure access service edge (SASE), a network architecture that rolls software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and security into a cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved efficiency and security, and to provide appropriate bandwidth per application.

So, what exactly is SASE, what it can do and how it can support agencies? That’s exactly what we’ll be talking about on our second episode of “Building the Future of Government,” a three-part podcast series that will seek to lay out a roadmap for what agencies need to know to lay a path to government operations of the future.

On this episode, host Craig Hill, distinguished systems engineer in the U.S. Public Sector CTO’s Office at Cisco, explores the world of SASE Architecture in the digital transformation journey with Wade Lehrschall, a business solutions architect at Cisco.

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As government agencies navigate an accelerated tech landscape, increased consumer demand and IT modernization, they will need innovative ways to keep up and adapt. Much of that will require breaking convention and stepping outside the usual boxes of government tech acquisition and processes.

As a result, agencies today are looking away from traditional methods and tapping strategy prototyping to solve problems in new ways and prepare for the future of work. That’s what we discuss on the premiere episode of The Federal Innovator, a podcast for and about the innovators taking on the biggest challenges in the federal government — and making change that is more human, simple and enduring.

On this episode, co-hosts Tim Irvine, managing director and lead at Accenture Federal Digital Studio, and Stephanie Wander, deputy director and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council are joined by Dr. Ryan Vega, the Diffusion of Excellence lead at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Center for Innovation.

On this episode of Industry Insights, a podcast for government leaders by industry leaders, host and President of Government Executive Media Group Constance Sayers sits down with Dave York, SVP of Public Sector for Genesys, a leader for omnichannel customer experience and contact center solutions. They discuss how government agencies begin to modernize their engagement with constituents to meet the needs of today — and tomorrow.

On this episode of Industry Insights, GEMG's Constance Sayers is joined by Dan Woods, vice president at Shape Security, to discuss the importance of application security — and what steps agencies can take to protect their data.

On this episode of Industry Insights, GEMG's Constance Sayers is joined by Michael Parker, the vice president of business development for Salesforce, to discuss how agencies can improve their customer experience architecture — and why it's important that they do.