CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public Sector

The state of Colorado is undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of its IT infrastructure, aimed at achieving what the Governor’s Office of Information Technology describes as four "wildly important goals." Four major initiatives (tech transformation, broadband access, digital government services, and enhanced employee engagement) are intended to deliver more and better digital services that improve residents’ lives and increase government employees’ job satisfaction.

The state of Colorado is undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of its IT infrastructure, aimed at achieving what the Governor’s Office of Information Technology describes as four "wildly important goals." Four major initiatives (tech transformation, broadband access, digital government services, and enhanced employee engagement) are intended to deliver more and better digital services that improve residents’ lives and increase government employees’ job satisfaction.

The state of Colorado is undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of its IT infrastructure, aimed at achieving what the Governor’s Office of Information Technology describes as four "wildly important goals." Four major initiatives (tech transformation, broadband access, digital government services, and enhanced employee engagement) are intended to deliver more and better digital services that improve residents’ lives and increase government employees’ job satisfaction.

A podcast series centered around important and innovative technology topics through a new and fresh lens creating an easy digest format for very complex technology. For today’s topic, our special guest is Herb Kelsey, Dell Technologies Security Strategy Program Lead from Office of the CTO. And we will spend time on Herb’s favorite topic “Zero Trust."

Tune in to Season 2, Episode 1 of our Mission First podcast to hear Mike Dent, Chief Information Cyber Security and Privacy Officer for Fairfax County Government and Craig Bowman, Senior Director – Federal at VMware discuss:

In this podcast, Ned Miller, CrowdStrike Federal VP, and Andrew Harris, CrowdStrike’s Sr Director of Global Public Sector’s Technical Strategy, discuss how zero trust identity protection solutions help the public sector prevent data fabric breaches and reinforce legacy authentication protocols.

In this podcast, Mike Downard, President of Silicon Mountain, and Kevin Howard, Sales Manager at Carahsoft, discuss how nontechnical teams are embracing digital practices like enterprise service management (ESM) solutions through Atlassian's Jira Service Management tool to enhance daily workflow.

Insurance premiums for cyber coverage have significantly increased after a string of high-profile attacks and record setting ransomware numbers. Learn how your organization can utilize Mimecast to strengthen its cybersecurity.

The use of emerging and innovative technologies is transforming legacy systems to better respond to citizens and facilitate digital services. Using cloud-ready architectures, agile methods, and data interoperability, Florida is tapping top technology talent to redesign aging technology systems and deliver better outcomes for Floridians.

Americans’ health, security, and economic wellbeing are tied to climate and weather. In a state that often faces natural disasters such as hurricanes and flooding, recovery depends on fast, secure IT resources to match manpower and machinery with the locations most in need, while delivering fast and secure assistance to victims.

Federal, state, and local agencies stand together in the fight to prevent and recover from cyberattacks, as their communities increasingly become targets of hackers and other cyber criminals. Cybersecurity risks range from data exploitation; insider threats; third-party practices as outsourcing increases; ransomware; identity theft; and fraudulent access to state government services.

Listen in to hear Corben Leo, a Security Researcher from the Hack U.S. program, discuss some of the results. In addition, you'll learn some key differences between VDPs and bug bounty programs to better understand what each program can do for your agency. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest tech tips & tricks from industry leaders! https://www.youtube.com/user/carahtechtv FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Carahsoft CONNECT WITH US ON LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/carahsoft/ LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/carahsoft LISTEN TO US ON OUR CARAHCAST CHANNEL: https://www.carahsoft.com/carahcast READ THE LATEST GOVERNMENT TECH COMMUNITY TRENDS: https://www.carahsoft.com/community

Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology at Monalytic, a SolarWinds company, and Brett Littrell, Chief Technology Officer of Alum Rock Union School District, discuss real world solutions utilizing school district case studies. Learn how Alum Rock Union School District transformed their aging technical infrastructure into a modern network with SolarWinds to meet the needs of their students and staff.

In this episode, Nikhil Gupta, Core Cyber Demo Specialist at Carahsoft, is joined by Joseph Gallop, Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager, Practitioner at Cofense. Together, they discuss new and long-standing phishing trends that challenge government agencies and contractors in 2022. In order to safeguard confidential information and effectively mitigate the risk of security breaches, public sector employees must be aware of the signs and trends of phishing attacks.

Ransomware threats are targeting state and local agencies with increasing frequency. At the same time, more state legislatures have banned their agencies from paying ransomware. These trends are on a collision course, making protection against ransomware even more urgent.

Cybersecurity professionals throughout all levels of government and the private sector are painfully aware of the risks to their own networks posed by third parties with authorized access – but insufficient security measures of their own. Supply chain hacks are favored by cybercriminals because they gain access to company data, as well as the ability to often breach customers’ networks.

State and local agencies see implementing zero trust architecture in their immediate future – 67 percent of state CIOs who responded to the 2021 Annual State CIO Survey anticipate that introducing or expanding a zero-trust framework will receive more attention in the next two to three years.

Join Scott Pross, Vice President of Monalytic, a SolarWinds company, for a discussion on real-world solutions utilizing the Service Desk application. Listeners will learn how to stop repeating processes over and over and get more information from the end user to resolve issues quickly and set up proper workflows to get the right data in front of the right people.

Listen to the latest VMware Renewals podcast to hear Tevin Clyde, VMware Renewals, and Nick Wager, Pre-Sales System Engineer, as they explore the offers and benefits of Carahsoft’s Affinity to Infinity (A2I) VMware Renewals Partner Program.

Listen to session one to hear real-life examples of teams, tradecraft, and technologies that are changing the way we see the cybersecurity situation. This first session will walk viewers through examples where those in command are making the best use of Attack Surface Analysis platforms as well as harnessing the capabilities that can be found by making better use of the current cybersecurity efforts.