Eddie Franklin, SVP of Public Sector for TD Synnex, shares his insights on how industry partners are prioritizing cybersecurity threats and allocating resources accordingly to the most pressing concerns. “We see partners doing more assessment—they look at every aspect of the organization as a vulnerability,” he says. He says that being able to have a proactive cyber maturity model that they can apply to all elements of a business is essential.

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Jean Schaffer, Federal Chief Technology Officer at Corelight, believes federal agencies are still in the ‘infancy’ stage of taking full advantage of global cyber intelligence services and platforms that enable threat hunting. Schaffer says that they can move to their threat-hunting phase once they have a good grasp of protecting their entire infrastructure.

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Raja Mukerji, Chief Customer Officer & Co-Founder of ExtraHop, shares his insights on how AI and ML have significantly impacted agencies safeguarding their operations. “Using that with the power of the network together will restore balance,” he says. Mukerji also discusses how federal agencies are taking full advantage of global cyber intelligence services and platforms that enable threat hunting.

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Danny Connelly, CISO for Americas & public sector at Zscaler, shares his thoughts on how agencies have improved their security posture. He says that there’s still progress to be made to achieve zero trust, partly due to technology and a mindset shift to embrace it holistically. Connelly also highlights how Zscaler Private Access has been a game-changer in shifting the way users connect to applications.

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Matt Schneider, head of public sector at Cloudflare, explains the technical advances in cybersecurity that will likely have the most significant impact in helping federal agencies safeguard their operations. He talks about the usability of technology and collective machine learning and the ability of the government to pull that data for their mission success.

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Bryan Jenkins, director of sales at Carahsoft, discusses how the partnership community prioritizes cybersecurity threats and allocates resources accordingly to the most pressing concerns. “We can work with our vendors to bring the best-of-breed solutions to the customer,” he says. Jenkins highlights how they provide the unbiased perspective to the customer to help them build out their strategy.

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Rear Adm. Will Metts (USN, ret.), DOD joint programs/cyber strategy lead at Amazon Web Services, shares his insights on the steps federal agencies have taken over the past two years that have made the most significant impact in protecting government data. He talks about how the mandates surrounding zero trust have helped agencies evolve from “boundary defense.”

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Adam Meyers, SVP of intelligence at CrowdStrike, highlights what government agencies and public sector leaders need to know about the spike in China-nexus threat actors, according to CrowdStrike’s recent Global Threat Report. He talks about how threat actors are conducting ‘vulnerability rediscovery’ and how it can impact the public sector, and why patched vulnerabilities may still create risk.

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James Yeager, VP for the public sector and healthcare for CrowdStrike, shares his thoughts on the biggest challenges that still exist for agencies as they push to operationalize EO 14028 and achieve a zero-trust security posture. He says that the challenges are to be expected, like legacy technology that is so embedded in government-wide programs. He stresses the importance of how the private sector can assist them. “We can’t do it alone, we want [partnerships] to be frictionless and easy,” he says.

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Elia Zaitsev CTO for CrowdStrike on what he believes is the greatest opportunity for the public sector to drive innovation – and how can it alleviate the risk associated with legacy infrastructure. He also stresses how agencies and public sector organizations need to have full, comprehensive visibility across their networks as their continue on their modernization projects. He touches on how to navigate the skills shortage.

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