On this episode of Inside the Media Minds, Christine Blake and Madison Farabaugh sat down with Ken Underhill, an award-winning IT and cybersecurity professional and writer for eSecurity Planet. A Technical Background to Inform Editorial After 20 years of founding and exiting a few of his own IT and security startups – and a brief […]
Federal government cybersecurity issues continued to generate media coverage over the past week, with a major announcement of action taken against a Chinese hacker operation. In other news, a variety of fraud-related stories popped up recently in the government tech media. You can find a roundup of these stories with links to the articles below: […]
This appearance on “Gov & Beyond” by Natalie Alms, government and policy reporter at NOTUS, marks the first time a guest has made a second appearance on the podcast – and with good reason. Until recently, Alms was one of the star reporters at Nextgov/FCW before her recent switch to NOTUS, an up-and-coming Washington, D.C.-focused […]
We saw lots of breaking news reported by government tech media outlets last week, but a couple of interesting trends caught my attention. I noted that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was appearing in headlines across several fronts, and I pulled those items together below. A similar trend was evident related to healthcare […]
Given that the government tech media has a demonstrated interest in the ambitious Golden Dome missile defense program, it might not be surprising that we saw a heap of coverage from the Space & Missile Defense Symposium 2026 (SMD 2026) conference last week. There was also broad coverage of a groundbreaking White House order regarding […]
On this episode of Inside the Media Minds, Christine Blake and Madison Farabaugh sat down with Byron Tau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who most recently worked with the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Associated Press and is now heading into a new role covering national security for ProPublica. Byron didn’t set out with a […]
You may feel a sense of deja vu looking at the top stories covered by the government tech media over the past week. First, we saw the return of widespread reporting on the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) across multiple publications. There were also plenty of articles that elaborated on reports from the previous […]
Cybersecurity grabbed the spotlight last week in the government tech media, driven by a state/local government-focused attack that has reverberated nationally. There was also a fair amount of discussion about threats and vulnerabilities related to open-source software. Here’s the week’s roundup: Minnesota Water Facilities Under Attack The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been […]
On this special Black Hat edition of Inside the Media Minds, Christine Blake and Madison Farabaugh spoke with Bree Fowler, an experienced freelance journalist covering cybersecurity and consumer tech. With Black Hat USA kicking off next week in Las Vegas, Bree shares how she plans her schedule, what she’s looking forward to on the show […]
Last year, W2 Communications announced our formal International Partner Program, something we resisted for years because we wanted to ensure that if we recommended a partner that they would live up to our own high standards. Unlike many of the partner programs we’ve been invited to join over the years, our priority is not revenue […]
