FedScoop Radio

VMware’s Eugene Liderman explains how federal agencies can reduce IT friction, boost workforce productivity and save money by adopting derived credentials for mobile devices. Sponsored by VMware. Guest: Eugene Liderman, director of product management

Robert Ruelas, vice president of end-user computing at VMware, spoke with FedScoop about the results of a new government productivity study and how virtualization can reduce IT friction and address productivity issues in government. Sponsored by VMware. Guest: Robert Ruelas, VP end-user computing

The data storage landscape is continually changing and in the background there are a few shifts driving that evolution, including culture changes. Sponsored by Hortonworks. Guest: Shaun Bierweiler, vice president - public sector

The growth of Internet of Things and the vast amounts of data they'll generate present a new set of challenges for federal CIOs who must begin planning for the convergence of IT and OT. FedScoop's Wyatt Kash interviews Dell EMC's Yogev Shimony, marketing director for embedded solutions, and Ro Dhanda, director for federal business, about how CIOs can get better prepared. Sponsored by Dell EMC. Guests: Yogev Shimony, marketing director for embedded solutions (left) and Ro Dhanda, director for federal business (right)

Federal chief technologists at Dell EMC and Intel highlight how new IT infrastructure services and business models offer agencies fresh alternatives to transform and secure their enterprise IT operations. Sponsored by Dell EMC. Guests: Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer(left) and Steve Orrin, federal chief technology officer (right)

Nutanix Federal Vice President Chris Howard discusses why not all agency workloads are best fit for the public cloud. Sponsored by Nutanix. Guest: Chris Howard, federal VP

Grammatech's Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder Dr. Tim Teitelbaum speaks with host Kevin Greene about DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), the world’s first all-machine hacking challenge. Grammatech was one of the finalists in CGC and Tim discusses some insights and lessons learned from the challenge. Tim also share his insights on why Grammatech has been very successful at tech transition and commercialization of federaly funded research and development. Dr. Teitelbaum is not only the Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Grammatech, but he also holds the distinguished honor of professor emeritus at Cornell University. Dr. Teitelbaum research interests are focused on automatic program analysis with the ultimate goal of solving the important cybersecurity concerns of the modern world. Making the cyber-world a safer place includes uncovering bugs and vulnerabilities in software that can be exploited by attackers around the globe.

OpenSSL Foundation Co-Founder Steve Marquess speaks with host Kevin Greene about the status of OpenSSL after the catastrophic Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014. Since then, OpenSSL has been under construction to improve the quality of code with refactoring, design and architecture enhancements, and improvements to cryptographic functions to provide a more stable code base. Steve discusses the challenges and lessons learned from 2014 and prior that ultimately contributed to the fatal exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability. Steve shares his thoughts on ways the community at large can support not only OpenSSL, but other key and widely used open-source projects.

OpenSSL Foundation Co-Founder Steve Marquess speaks with host Kevin Greene about the status of OpenSSL after the catastrophic Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014. Since then, OpenSSL has been under construction to improve the quality of code with refactoring, design and architecture enhancements, and improvements to cryptographic functions to provide a more stable code base. Steve discusses the challenges and lessons learned from 2014 and prior that ultimately contributed to the fatal exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability. Steve shares his thoughts on ways the community at large can support not only OpenSSL, but other key and widely used open-source projects.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Global Principle Engineer Ken Modeste speaks with host Kevin Greene about the status of cyber initiatives underway at the UL for certifying IoT devices. Ken discusses the need to drive good cyber hygiene in products by incorporating secure design principles to reduce the cost to maintain software. Ken share ways the community can engage the UL process to help drive adoption. Ken Modeste is the principal technical advisor and SME for UL's cybersecurity program. He helped develop UL's series of cybersecurity standards that tests network-connectable devices for known vulnerabilities and software security. Previous to UL, Ken served as an engineering manager for GE for 12 years. As part of the cybersecurity strategy for UL, Ken is responsible for strategically identifying long-term growth opportunities that align with UL's mission to address public safety. He is responsible for creating the laboratory, hiring and training all personnel and developing programs and services to support UL's clients' security needs.