MeriTalk recently sat down with Kathleen Featheringham, vice president of artificial intelligence and machine learning at Maximus, to discuss these issues and how Federal agencies can successfully move AI use cases from concept to design, pilot, and scalable enterprise deployment to achieve mission success in area ranging from citizen services to national security. […]
In a new interview with MeriTalk, Brandon Iske, a principal solutions architect at identity platform provider Okta, and Bill Wells, a senior solutions architect at cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), evaluate the successes and challenges that agencies are experiencing as they implement required identity protections and offer advice and best practices for agencies as they continue to plan and implement components of their zero trust architectures. […]
MeriTalk sat down with Frank Reyes, cloud solutions leader at Maximus, to discuss the DoD’s cloud strategy, the future of cloud computing across the DoD, and how industry can partner with the DoD to support cloud integration and achieve mission success. […]
The State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs has awarded two recompete task orders totaling $320 million to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to help support visa applications and processing in South America. […]
Government and industry leaders have long hailed the importance of public-private partnerships, but they can pose challenges in the cybersecurity realm because the nation’s defense is involved. […]
Officials from top private sector cybersecurity are looking ahead to key catalysts that will help advance the aims of the Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy implementation plan (NCSIP) released last week, including the promise of greater collaboration between the government and the private sector, and the degree to which Congress provides funding for government agencies to carry out the lengthy tasking list that the plan provides. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Essye Miller, former DoD deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity, former acting defense chief information officer, and board member for Axonius Federal Systems, and Tom Kennedy, vice president, Axonius Federal Systems, to talk about what successful public-private partnerships look like, lessons learned from past partnership experiences, and how industry and government can come together effectively to work towards common goals that advance the nation’s cybersecurity. […]
Microsoft said late Tuesday that it took action in recent weeks to mitigate China-based cyberattacks that exposed email account information of government agencies and other organizations, along with customer accounts of people tied to those agencies and organizations. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Erin Godinez, director, homeland security solutions, and Dean Irwin, senior director, cybersecurity, at Maximus, to discuss how the department is using technology to drive improvements that are rebuilding trust in government. […]
The White House released the 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy almost 20 years to the month that the George W. Bush administration released its National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace in 2003. MeriTalk sat down with Simon Szykman, senior vice president for client growth at Maximus and a contributor to the 2003 strategy, to discuss the similarities and differences between the strategies and assess the work that still needs to be done to strengthen our nation’s cybersecurity. […]
Moving to cloud-based systems has become an inevitable step for Federal agencies and maintaining a secure cloud environment is paramount – especially for the military services and other defense organizations. […]
Every day for the past seven years, a group of researchers have been meticulously scanning the entire internet, looking for patterns and anomalies and building a comprehensive internet map used for threat hunting. […]
Federal and private sector experts will dive into the Department of Defense’s (DoD) rapid move to the cloud and break down DoD’s Impact Level system for cloud security – especially DoD IL5 – during a June 29 webinar from MeriTalk and Ping Identity. […]
Federal IT leaders are championing citizen service priorities from the President’s Management Agenda (PMA), but legacy technology continues to hold citizen services back, according to new research from MeriTalk. […]
The winners of the 2023 Service to the Citizen Awards have been announced, honoring five different leaders from the government and private sector for achieving exemplary service. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) binding operational directive (BOD) issued this week is a “step in the right direction,” according to industry leaders, who are eager to see its effectiveness in protecting network management interfaces from the public-facing internet. […]
In this MeriTalking podcast, MeriTalk’s Joe Franco is joined by Matt Lembright, director of Federal applications at Censys, which maintains a comprehensive internet map used for threat hunting. We’ll discuss the findings in Censys’s 2023 State of the Internet Report, the security vulnerabilities it uncovered, how Federal organizations can adapt – and how using data […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Dale McCloskey, vice president, Federal sales, and Michael Loefflad, senior director, sales engineering, at cybersecurity company SentinelOne to discuss how agencies can overcome uncertainties about AI and ML and tap into the technologies to keep government secure at mission speed. […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a $329 million contract to Accenture Federal Services to manage the agency’s comprehensive information assurance and privacy program. […]
With unique environments and disparate needs, government agencies have widely varying modernization requirements. In particular, agencies with especially heavy or fast data processing needs can find it difficult to modernize and move to the cloud. We sat down with Larry Reagan, vice president, Federal financial, at Maximus, to explore how pragmatic modernization, flexible roadmaps, legacy technology know-how, and mission expertise can help agencies along their modernization journeys. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) President Amy Gilliland to discuss the company’s new technology investment strategy. […]
During day two of its world conference, Dell Technologies introduced NativeEdge – an operations software platform designed to help businesses simplify and optimize secure deployments at the edge. […]
During the second day of Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, Nevada, two former top Federal officials urged the government and Congress to continue to move the ball forward on modernizing technology and keeping customers at the center of that process. […]
Artificial intelligence experts at Dell Technologies are leveraging the emerging technology to drive human progress forward – whether it be in schools, at hospitals, or on farms. […]
MeriTalk sat down with Dell Industry Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Government, Herb Kelsey, to get the rundown on how Project Fort Zero came to be, the importance of collaboration when working on a global zero trust solution, and how industry is inviting the project with open arms. […]
Dell Technologies today introduced a new end-to-end zero trust security solution – dubbed Project Fort Zero – for global organizations to protect against cyberattacks. […]
Dell Technologies recently launched its newest VxRail – dubbing it as the smallest, most versatile hyperconverged infrastructure system to date – and the tool took center stage on day one of Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, Nevada. […]
Two top Dell Technologies executives today announced several new portfolio advancements to industry’s most comprehensive multicloud platform, APEX, which aims to help companies better manage their data and applications wherever they are. […]
Some of the top cybersecurity professionals from across the Federal government and the private sector gathered Thursday evening at Morton’s in Washington, D.C., to honor the 2023 class of Cyber Defender award winners. […]
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) said today the company has launched a new technology investment strategy that focuses on six “digital accelerator solutions” for its government, defense, and intelligence market customers. […]