Innovation in Government Report: Cybersecurity and the Drive to Modernize

This month's Innovation in Government Report featured in GCN magazine focuses on modernizing agency IT services and solutions, with insight from industry partners at Symantec, Palo Alto Networks, ForeScout Technologies, FireEye, Gigamon, Micro Focus Government Solutions, and Proofpoint.

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Innovation in Government Federal News Radio Show

January's Innovation in Government Report on Federal News Network features Randy Wood, Vice President of U.S. Public Sector Sales for Akamai, discussing why agencies should rethink how they build systems and applications to incorporate the Zero Trust approach.

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Innovation in Government Report

Discover how Carahsoft and its partners can help agencies better serve their mission and citizens through IT innovation.


In collaboration with Federal News Network, WTOP & FCW, public sector thought leaders share the latest IT trends and technologies, including cloud, security, citizen engagement, mobility and data analytics, that help agencies modernize their systems.

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    GCN Report: Cybersecurity and the Drive to Modernize

    Learn why government agencies must modernize their IT environments to stay ahead of new, evolving threats

    • All, Cybersecurity

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    Zero Trust Pushes Agencies Away from an Outdated Approach to Cybersecurity

    Randy Wood, Vice President of US Public Sector Sales for Akamai, discusses how zero trust 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.

    • Cybersecurity , Akamai

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    Work is What We Do, Not Where We Go

    Randy Wood, Vice President of U.S. Public Sector Sales for Akamai, says the changing nature of where federal employees do their work and what devices they use requires new approaches to security.

    • Cybersecurity , Akamai

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    Agencies Need to Rethink How and Where They Apply Cybersecurity Tools

    Randy Wood, Vice President of U.S. Public Sector Sales for Akamai, says agencies need to rethink how and where they apply cybersecurity tools because so much of their mission is met through software.

    • Cybersecurity , Akamai

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    Meeting Citizens' Expectations

    Randy Wood,Vice president of U.S. Public Sector Sales for Akamai, says agencies have to find the right balance between security and meeting citizens' expectations and needs.

    • Cybersecurity , Akamai

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    Dell EMC Full Length Radio Show

    Jeff Reilly, the Senior Director of the Americas' Commercial Presales for Dell EMC, discusses how SDN lets agencies move faster and become more agile by redefining their infrastructure.

    • Dell EMC, Cybersecurity

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    Is Software Taking Over Computer Storage a Good Thing?

    Jeff Reilly, the Senior Director of the Americas' Commercial Presales for Dell EMC, discusses how computer storage is being transformed using software strategies.

    • Dell EMC, Cybersecurity

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    Automation: The Phase that Stands Out

    Jeff Reilly, the Senior Director of the Americas' Commercial Presales for Dell EMC, discusses the primary phase of change agencies need to focus on in order to succeed.

    • Dell EMC, Cybersecurity

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    What is One of the Hottest Areas in the Federal Government?

    Jeff Reilly, the Senior Director of the Americas' Commercial Presales for Dell EMC, discusses the interest around a hyper-converged software defined infrastructure.

    • Dell EMC, Cybersecurity

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    How Cybersecurity Fuels Modernization

    Read about how the government's race to modernize IT systems is converging with its race to secure them.

    • All, Cybersecurity

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    Executive Viewpoint with Syed Azeem

    Hear from Syed Azeem, Senior IT Project Manager at GSA, about the balance of cybersecurity and modernization.

    • All, Cybersecurity

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    Cloud and the Pivot to New Security Targets

    Read about why moving to cloud-based infrastructure means agencies can now direct their energy to protecting users, written by Tony D'Angelo, Vice President of Federal at Proofpoint.

    • Cybersecurity , Proofpoint

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    Security Progress One Step at a Time

    Read what Rob Roy, Public-Sector Chief Technology Officer at Micro Focus, has to say on how the process of modernization reveals alternatives to all-or-nothing approaches to encryption and cyber strategies.

    • Cybersecurity , Micro Focus Government Solutions

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    The Security Game Changer

    Hear from Dennis Reilly, Vice President of Federal Sales at Gigamon, on how people, processes, and technology together can revolutionize the way agencies defend their IT assets.

    • Gigamon, Cybersecurity

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    Modernizing Security with Cyberthreat Intelligence

    Read about why it's important to understand what adversaries want and what their strategies are in order to protect today's IT environments as written by Tom Topping, Senior Director of Strategic Programs at FireEye.

    • FireEye, Cybersecurity