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Latest Episodes

MeriTalking: What Happened This Week – Ep. 67
May 27, 2022

New TMF awards and requests for more funds, public-private collaboration on cyber defense, OPMs skills-based hiring guidelines, and more. For more news and insights on todays mission-critical IT cha

MeriTalking: What Happened This Week – Ep. 66
May 20, 2022

CISA issues emergency directive, DeRusha reports tremendous progress on cyber EO, MeriTalk publishes new research on CDM, and more.

Podcast: Begin at the End: Breaking Down Endpoint Security
February 25, 2022

Endpoint devices, or personal laptops, government-issued devices, tablets, mobile phones, etc. used outside of the network perimeter are key factors in a successful telework model. Keeping those devic

Podcast: Tame Tool Sprawl
December 20, 2021

Digital security breaches have shown us that Federal agencies are more vulnerable than anyone thought, and their security tools are no longer effectively defending against them. This begs the question

Podcast: Building Digital First Government
November 01, 2021

On today’s episode of MeriTalking, MeriTalk’s Nicole Burdette sits down with Jay Boisseau, AI & HPC Technology Strategist at Dell Technologies, and Marc Hamilton, Vice President of Solutions Architect

Podcast: Coordinate the Cyber Defense
October 25, 2021

Following several Federal initiatives published this year such as the National Security Strategic Guidance and Cybersecurity Executive Order, greater collaboration between the public and private secto

Podcast: Build Diverse Cyber Teams
October 05, 2021

As the cyber threats we face become more diverse across the nation and globe, security, and IT operations teams must encompass diverse perspectives. For MeriTalking’s first installment of the “Human S

Mission Success with AI: Moving from Pilots to Proficiency
June 21, 2021

On today's episode of MeriTalking, MeriTalk’s John Curran speaks with Al Ford, Federal AI Alliances Manager at Dell Technologies, about Federal AI readiness and challenges. Ford shares ideas on the most helpful steps from a technology, infrastructure,

CIO Crossroads: Federal IT in the COVID Crisis – HHS Edition
August 27, 2020

Federal IT operations time and again have proved to be the resilient lifeline to vital citizen services during the COVID-19 pandemic. As government and society map the path to recovery, MeriTalk is chronicling the untold stories and lessons of how gove...

Cloudera Exec Explains Open Source Cost, Risk Reductions in New Podcast
August 24, 2020

Lower costs, reduced risks, and shorter time to achieving mission values are goals that are all within reach for government agencies that choose to work with enterprise data cloud provider Cloudera for support in open-source technical operations.