To The Point - Cybersecurity

2019 is already off to an interesting start in terms of government cybersecurity—we’ve had a 35 days government shutdown and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently issued its first emergency directive about Domain Name System tampering activities.

On this week’s episode Forcepoint’s George Kamis (CTO Global Governments & Critical Infrastructure) joins Eric and Arika for a discussion around the most pressing cybersecurity issues for government in 2019– and what agencies can do to protect against them. 

For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e19

Machine learning have become more mainstream in cybersecurity as a way to make inroads against cyber threats. In this week’s episode Dr. Kular, a Research Scientist in Forcepoint’s innovation Labs joins the podcast to share her thoughts on whether security analyst trust analytics that are powered by machine learning. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e18

Former EPA CISO Sean Kelly joins the podcast this this week to discuss the challenges government security officials face in protecting its networks and whether government’s cyber strategy is heading in the right direction. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e17

Recently SBA’s CIO Maria Roat tweeted that the “SBA OCIO is burning the bridges behind us - no going back.” This week the SBA’s CTO Sanjay Gupta joins us to talk about how the SBA is forging ahead with innovation and also discuss his cybersecurity predictions for 2019.

Since the early beginnings of the internet in the 1980's, viruses and malware attacks have become far more aggressive. As a result, cybersecurity has had to greatly (and quickly) evolve to keep up with new and emerging threats. This week former CIA Executive Mark Kelton joins the podcast to discuss the differences between the 1980s-1990s and today as it relates to espionage, cyber, the adversaries, etc.

Recently, the Department of Energy hosted its annual CyberForce National Competition. Of the 66 selected teams to compete, the University of Central Florida’s Collegiate Cyber Defense Team won the national competition which challenges teams across the country to build a robust corporate network that can withstand attacks to steal data, deface websites or wipe out critical systems. The team’s captain Austin Sturm joins the podcast this week to discuss their winning strategy and also discuss cybersecurity from a generational perspective.

For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e14

This week Forcepoint’s Global Chief Technology Officer joins Eric and Arika to talk about the range of new innovations he is seeing in cybersecurity and give his honest advice on how government can upgrade its cybersecurity systems by first upgrading its cybersecurity mindset.

For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e13

This week hosts Eric Trexler and Arika Pierce discuss Marriott’s recent news that it experienced a four-year-long breach involving personal and financial information of 500 million guests of its Starwood hotel properties. During the episode they breakdown what these types of breaches mean for consumers, private industry as well as government and also discuss whether Congress needs to pass data security laws to protect against these types of incidents.

For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e12

Forcepoint’s Sean Berg was recently named by FedScoop as one of the top 50 leaders in the federal technology space. On this episode he joins the podcast to discuss his thoughts on the current state of government cybersecurity and also discuss a recent article he authored on utilizing the human element to mitigate today’s sophisticated cyber threat landscape including critical infrastructure

For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e11

Recently, Forcepoint’s Chief Scientist published an opinion article entitled “Rethinking the concept of trust” in which he makes the case that the only long-term solution to data management within the government is to embrace trust-based architecture in a consistent and broad manner. Dr. Ford joins the podcast this week to discuss this concept of trust—meaning how the government typically trusts — or distrusts — those people, devices, systems, and infrastructure that make up the overall federal and state ecosystems.

For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e10