Best The Oakmont Group Podcasts (2025)

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Ep. 244 Unlocking Federal Efficiency: Cutting Costs and Boosting Security in LLM Development 22:38

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Everyone is trying to figure out how to apply AI to federal problems—essentially, building large language models and trying to wring value from them. Inevitably, many are jumping into creating LLMs from various da…

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Ep. 243 From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Boosting Federal Efficiency with Automation 27:19

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Automation is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it promises greater efficiency; on the other hand, it can pose inherent risks, such as maliciously modified data, bias, and even data poisoning. During today’s int…

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Ep. 242 Inside the SANS Institute’s Mission to Fortify Federal Cyber Defenses 27:04

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Here we are in the spring of 2025, and the headline news is that the federal government is removing tech staff; at the same time, reports are coming in of thousands of unfilled cybersecurity positions across the government. Today, we sit down with a self-proclaimed “Cybersecurity Lifer” who will give the perspective of the SANS Institute on this di…

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Ep. 241 The Role of Augmented AI in Modernizing Federal Agencies 26:45

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com GitLab has been around for ten years and has garnered a reputation for helping federal agencies ensure compliance with stringent government standards. Today, we sat down with Joel Krooswick from GitLab to discuss …

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Ep. 240 Unlocking Federal Efficiency: How Process Intelligence Drives Faster, Smarter Government 23:43

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Everyone who has listened to a podcast about technology has heard the phrase, “People, Process, Technology.” This is a model derived from a management consultant in the 1960’s. We have seen a lot of focus on techn…

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Ep. 239 Boosting Federal Cybersecurity with Agentless Observability 24:38

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com AFCEA’S TechNet Cyber conference held in Baltimore, Maryland was the perfect opportunity to sit down with Bryan Rosensteel, Head of Public Sector Marketing at Wiz. Wiz is the “new kid on the block,” and it has had…

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Ep. 238 How Federal Agencies Can Achieve Cyber-Resilient Data Protection and Recovery 26:33

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AFCEA’S TechNet Cyber conference held in Baltimore, Maryland was the perfect opportunity to sit down with Greg Carl, Principal Technologist from Pure Storage. Pure Storage is used by 175 federal agencies. Time to sit down from a subject matter expert and explain their value proposition. Today’s federal government is attempting to accomplish digital…

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Ep. 237 How Contract Lifecycle Management Can Streamline Federal Software Projects 23:43

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com When most of us hear the word “lifecycle,” we normally assume they are talking about the Software Development Lifecycle. Today, we are going to vary that concept and discuss the Contract Lifecycle and its manageme…

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Ep. 236 Driving Efficiency in Federal Tech Amid Rapid Disruption 24:31

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Brian Funk from Metaphase summarizes his company in one sentence, “It’s all about meeting – meeting the mission with the technology.” What makes his company unique is the focus on drawing down costs in an efficien…

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Ep. 235 How Tech Leaders Can Streamline Federal Contracting for Real Efficiency Gains 24:54

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com The federal government is releasing so many RFIs and RFQs that it is increasingly challenging to select which ones to respond to. For example, let us say you get 60 requests. You do not have an equal chance to win…

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Ep. 234 Generative AI and the Federal Cybersecurity Challenge 20:59

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Artificial Intelligence can be applied to code generation, predictive analytics, and what is called “generative” AI. " Generative means the AI can look at a library of information (Large Language Model) and create…

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Ep. 233 Boosting Federal Cyber Resilience Through Cross-Domain Solutions 22:36

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com The federal government needs to share information on a wide variety of platforms and must provide methods to ensure this transmission is secure. Of course, the hard part is the “how” part of this data transfer. Ti…

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Ep. 232 Unlocking SBIR: A Powerful Tool for Boosting Federal Tech Efficiency 21:33

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com In traditional commercial selling, a company seeks to understand its business problems and then presents a solution that would save time and money. Understanding federal requirements has a few more barriers than s…

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Ep. 231 The Role of Quantum Computing in a More Efficient Federal Government 28:06

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Most people are so overwhelmed with the dazzle of Artificial Intelligence that they dismiss the power of quantum computing. Reality is the optimized solution for solving some federal problems involving artificial …

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Ep. 230 How Senzing Strengthens Federal Cybersecurity with Smarter Entity Resolution 17:22

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com It is a challenge for most technology companies to give a three-word summary of what they do, especially with the complexity implied with the phrase “entity resolution.” The CEO of Senzing, Jeff Jonas, gives a thr…

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Ep. 229 How Identity Proofing Can Help Federal Agencies Combat Fraud and Cut Waste 25:42

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com For many, IDEMIA is a relatively unknown company that was recently awarded a 10-year Blanket Purchase Agreement from GSA. The focus is on next-generation identity proofing for login.gov. At first glance, you might…

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Ep. 228 How Agentic AI Can Revolutionize Federal IT Efficiency 22:13

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Walking around the Salesforce World Tour DC can make you dizzy with use cases. Let’s step back and look at underlying principles. To boil down the massive information overflow, we sat down with Nasi Jazayeri from …

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Ep. 228 Building Trust in Agents: How Salesforce Powers Secure AI 23:10

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Federal leaders are walking a tightrope. They want to leverage the promise of AI; however, they are responsible for making federal data secure. Beyond that, these AI “experiments” should not negatively impact the …

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Ep. 225 How Cloudflare is Transforming Federal Security Through Interconnected Networks 21:36

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Most people know Cloudflare from federal or commercial experience. They have been around since 2009, and some will estimate that around 20% of all websites use Cloudflare for web security services. The listener's …

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Ep. 225 Why Identity is the First Pillar of Federal Security in the Digital Age 19:55

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Once the transition to the cloud became dominant, the importance of identity was placed ahead of permission to access apps and data. When data centers were down the hall, one could have physical access to a room a…

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Ep. 224 Federal Cloud Cybersecurity: Key Differences Every Tech Leader Must Know 26:08

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Many people deceive themselves when moving systems to the cloud, thinking the same precautions used for an on-premises system can be used in the cloud. Neil Carpenter from Orca Security dispels that notion right o…

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Ep. 223 Shifting Left in Federal IT: A Smarter Approach to Digital Transformation 19:06

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Today, we sit down with Karthik Natarajan, Solutions Engineering Manager, U.S. Public Sector, for SNYK. SNYK has garnered a formidable reputation in the commercial sector by helping to identify and fix vulnerabili…

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Ep. 222 Securing Federal Systems: How API Management Transforms Digital Security 23:24

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The federal government is transforming from on-premises and private cloud systems to a hybrid cloud. What most listeners do not realize is that the linchpin to this transition is the Application Program Interface (API). It has been hiding under the radar for so many years that malicious actors use this perspective to attack the API. Info Security M…

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Ep. 221 Measuring what matters: Evaluating Success in Complex Federal Software Projects 20:38

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com We all know the quote from Peter Drucker, "If you can measure it, you can manage it." It's pretty easy to apply when throwing a javelin but difficult when measuring success in complex software development projects…

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Ep. 220 How Customer Experience Can Make or Break Federal Technology Initiatives 28:54

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com The Partnership for Public Service recently conducted a poll, and just 23% of Americans believe federal services are easy to navigate. Today, we will examine the importance of User Experience and how to overcome s…

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Ep. 219 Surviving Digital Disruption: How F5 Supports Federal Agencies 21:31

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Here we are at the beginning of 2025, and Bill Church, F5's CTO, discusses the company's role in helping federal agencies navigate the complexities of multi-cloud environments and cybersecurity threats. F5's stren…

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Ep. 218 Next-Gen Attack Surface Management: Strengthening Federal Systems in the Digital Age" 25:23

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Matt Lembright, Global Lead of Censys Search, discusses the company's role in scanning the entire internet for threats, focusing on frequency, accuracy, and data richness. Censys helps government agencies and priv…

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Ep. 217 Inside Federal Digital Transformation: Key Strategies for Tech Leaders 29:03

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com There is an idiomatic expression, “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” Essentially, it means that some people are so focused on the details that they cannot see the bigger picture. Today, Bob Ritchie, SAIC's …

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Ep. 216 Let us look at Open-Source Intelligence 18:28

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com In spy movies, the federal government has unlimited funds for intelligence. In fact, it is always at its fingertips, no matter where it is located. Would it be so? In the real world, agencies have budgets that lim…

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Ep. 215 Is Procurement the Key to Leveraging AI? 25:08

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Technology comes and goes; you can call it the cloud, zero trust, or even Artificial intelligence. In early 2025, we see stress that we have not seen before. The GAO has issued a report examining the federal IT Ac…

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Ep. 214 An Independent View on Federal Technology 23:10

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Bill Sullivan, an independent consultant with experience in federal technology, discusses the impact of the new administration's policies on federal projects. He advises federal employees to maintain professionali…

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Ep 213 What is the Role of Generative AI in the Federal Government 25:35

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com A recent SAS report shows that 84% of government decision-makers plan to invest in Generative AI in the next fiscal year. During today’s interview, Reggie Townsend details some of the precautions federal leaders m…

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Ep. 212 Making Sense of the Confusing World of AI & The Federal Government 21:10

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Anyone with a pulse knows the new Trump administration has rescinded dozens of Executive Orders written by the previous president, Joe Biden. Executive orders #14110 and #14141, which dealt with artificial Intelli…

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Ep 211 Build Software Faster: GitLab 29:14

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com A recent study showed that the federal government has identified 1700 use cases for Artificial Intelligence. Today, we examine some challenges and solutions for unlocking the power of AI represented in these examp…

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Ep 210 Software Development and the Shift Left 26:16

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com “Efficiency” seems like the new buzzword for federal technology in the next few years. When writing software sense, efficiency can mean writing code once and moving on to regular maintenance. However, we see secur…

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Ep. 209 AI & and Proposal Development in 2025 23:12

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com People are getting comfortable with Generative AI and applying it to many business areas. This widespread adoption shows many of the weaknesses of individuals misusing technology. It is one thing to settle a baseb…

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Ep 208 Innovation with OSCAL, Federal Cloud, and Compliance 19:12

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Everyone reading this knows that April 15 is the dreaded day that one must pay federal income taxes. Big business has hordes of tax accountants and lawyers who do tax planning to accommodate federal deadlines. Som…

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Ep 207 Federal Data, Fast Access, Security 21:35

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Ep 206 Federal Data, Fast Access, Security Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com When it comes to technology, the founders of VAST Data can be described as “prescient.” In 2015, they looked at the problem of data management from a unique perspective. …

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Ep 206 An Argument for Enterprise Design 25:21

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Complex environments exist in commercial organizations and the federal government. In a typical fashion, humans resist change until an incident force restructuring. In this case, the change of design will be costl…

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Ep 205 AI = Data + Compute + Algorithm 24:12

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Cybersecurity professionals like to talk about data “at rest” and data “in transit.” They never mention how exactly this concept of “in transit” takes place. Once upon a time, in a data center far, far away, one c…

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Ep 204 Understanding of the Landscape of Your Network 17:17

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com We all know that in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. A couple of years later, a map maker named Americo Vespucci made quite a splash with a new map. This has a direct parallel with today’s information technol…

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Ep 203 Dangers that Lurk inside Your Phone 23:36

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com We have all heard that the phones we carry around have more computing power than was used in the Apollo moon mission. Breaking news: these powerful devices in our pockets are vulnerable to attacks of which we cann…

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Ep 202 Innovation in Handling Complexities of AI 28:58

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Malicious actors are taking advantage of AI and the federal government. As a result, we are in a strange Wack-a-Mole game in which applying AI for defense has become so complex that each application seems to requi…

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Ep 201 Misdirection, feints, trojan horses 19:34

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com In Frank Herbert’s classic Dune, Paul Atreides's martial arts instructor discusses knife fighting and a “feint within a feint.” Today, we apply for this martial art tactic in federal information technology. Malici…

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Ep. 200 Data Usage Across Silos and Boundaries 20:56

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com In 1967 the movie Cool Hand Luke gave us this famous quote, “what we have here is a failure to communicate.” Surprisingly, this adage may apply to federal technology as well. If a federal leader allows secure info…

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Ep. 178 Protecting Critical Infrastructure 59:04

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While everybody is focusing on Artificial Intelligence, malicious actors are going after the soft underbelly of modern technology: operational technology, or OT. Today, we take a look at the increasing threat of cyber-attacks on operational technology (OT) systems, which are often not built with security in mind. Operational Technology is represent…

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Ep 199 Managing Mobile Security 28:35

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Using a phone to read or communicate has become so standard that church people are expected to read scripture with their phones. Using mobile devices to transmit secure information. Traditionally, secure communica…

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Ep 198 Creating a Solid Foundation for AI 22:23

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com When Qlik was founded in 1993, hard drives were measured in megabytes, and the Internet was primarily text-based. If lucky, you could get information in structured columns and formats. Fast forward thirty years, a…

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Ep 197 Managing Federal Cyber Tools 25:13

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com With public speaking, everyone has butterflies before they begin; instructors tell speakers to get them to fly in formation. When it comes to tools for cybersecurity, we have a similar situation – you may have End…

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Ep 196 How to take a Federal Network Above and Beyond 29:50

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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Want to listen to other episodes? www.Federaltechpodcast.com Ep 196 How to take a Federal Network Above and Beyond Today, we see our network being pushed and pulled in every direction: remote users demand access, millions of endpoints must be managed, and wireless networks …