Innovation in Government

Barry Leffew, the vice president of the government platform accelerator at In-Q-Tel, said areas like cybersecurity, enterprise technology, space, lightweight energy sources and biotechnology are among the company’s top investment focus areas.

Wayne LeRiche, the federal civilian field chief technology officer and solutions architect for Palo Alto Networks Federal, said secure access service edge (SASE) sets a framework for agencies to get more easily implement a zero trust architecture.

Herb Kelsey, the Project Fort Zero Team Leader at Dell Technologies, said agencies have the opportunity to focus on the policy and process side and not the technology piece of the zero trust architecture.

Drew Epperson, the vice president of federal engineering at Palo Alto Networks federal, said agencies need to think about modernizing their cyber tools as they transform their entire IT infrastructure.

Sudhir Hasbe, the chief product officer for Neo4j, said applying graphing technology can help agencies better understand relationships between people, processes and data.

Matt Mandrgoc, the head of Public Sector at Zoom, said there are several considerations agencies must keep in mind, including legacy technology and complexity as they move further into the hybrid work environment.

Chris Townsend, the vice president of U.S. public sector sales at Elastic, said for agencies to operationalize their data to drive better decisions, they need to break down siloes and make it easier to search.

Kelsey Monaghan, the lead for federal strategic programs and partnerships for cloud and edge at Dell Technologies, said agencies need the ability to govern and provide workload flexibility across all individual cloud deployments to ensure consistency.

Jonathan Alboum, the principal digital strategist for federal at ServiceNow, said agency managers can start preparing today for the future when employees return to the office with a goal of ensuring their safety through the use of technology and data.

Dan Carayiannis, the director of public sector at RSA, said the increasing concern about technology products and components, and whether the technology suppliers understand and have transparency into the chain of custody created a wake-up call of sorts for public and private sector organizations.

Jeffrey Phelan, the chief technology officer for public sector at Rubrik, said while it’s clear every agency is at a different point in corralling their data, too often they are in “deer in the headlights” mode.

Dennis Reilly, the vice president of public sector at Gigamon, said agencies can use the pandemic emergency to continue to make progress.

Dan Woods, the vice president of the Shape Intelligence Center with Shape Security, which is now part of F5 Networks, said a credential stuffing attack isn’t about breaking into someone’s account, but rather verifying the credential itself.

Listen to Atlassian’s Shayla Sander discuss the benefits to incorporation Enterprise Service Management (ESM) into your agency.

Hear how Apnatomy Co-Founder Jason White provides his agile experience from private sector enterprise into the public sector

In this 15-minute podcast, Addteq VP of Marketing, Jaclyn Mazzarella discusses with Atlassian Sales Director, Sean O’Sullivan, how Atlassian helps agencies comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act

Listen now to Atlassian Senior Solutions Engineer, Ken Urban talk all things DevOps

Red Hat’s Cloud Domain Architect, Jason Ritenour, takes a deeper dive into automation with Red Hat in the public sector.

Red Hat’s Chief Architect, Adam Clater, discusses IT optimization, the Red Hat solutions that enable it, and the benefits modernizing provides to your agency.

Red Hat’s Lead Transformation Specialist, Chuck Svoboda, discusses the impact that containers are making towards IT optimization in agencies across the public sector.

Dave York, the senior vice president of U.S. public sector for Genesys, said agencies can improve how they deliver services to citizens by taking a omni-channel approach to digital modernization.

Tricia Fitzmaurice, the regional manager for law enforcement and justice at Red Hat, said the benefits and potential of hybrid cloud is unmistakable and only growing.

Joel Jackson, the director of emerging technology for Red Hat’s North America Public Sector group, said agencies need to have a sprinting mindset from the beginning of any application development effort.

Since its inception in 2013, the federal government’s Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program (CDM), led by the Department of Homeland Security, has helped agencies discover up to 50 percent more assets inside their systems than they were previously aware of. And they’re able to do it in real time.

Jim Walker, director of public sector marketing for UiPath, said 25-to-30 agencies already are taking advantage of RPA to automate menial, repetitive tasks.

Randy Wood, vice president of U.S. public sector sales for Akamai, said zero trust is not a new idea, but one that is about five years old. It promotes the simple concept that trust is not an attribute of location, and just because an employee is trusted inside perimeter, it doesn’t mean he or she should be granted access to all the information.