This Week in Government Tech Media – October 11, 2024

We’re off and running into the new government fiscal year! Here’s the latest on the topics capturing the attention of the Government Tech Media:  Final CMMC Rule Issued Late this week, the news arrived that the Pentagon issued the final Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) rule for verifying that contractors are adhering to requirements for […]

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Inside the Media Mind of Alex Konrad, Forbes

In this episode of Inside the Media Minds, our hosts Christine Blake and Madison Farabaugh chat with Alex Konrad about the various hats he wears as Senior Editor at Forbes.  “It is a lot of air traffic control,” states Alex, on the routing and evaluating of stories for Forbes and balancing this responsibility with what […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – October 4, 2024 

As we enter the new government fiscal year, here are a few of the topics capturing the attention of the Government Tech Media: AI Across Government Last week, we looked at trending coverage of congressional activity related to AI in government. But agencies are not sitting around and waiting for laws to be enacted to […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – September 27, 2024

This week, there were several topics capturing the attention of the  Government Tech Media, including:  The FBI Carahsoft Raid This week, almost every government tech media outlet reported that the FBI conducted a raid on the Reston, Virginia offices of government contractor Carahsoft Technology – a story that has generated significant buzz (and lots of […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – September 20, 2024

In today’s edition of “This Week in Government Tech Media,” we look at trending coverage in the following areas: FITARA Scores Soar! Let’s start with some good news on the cybersecurity front this week. Late this week, John Curran of MeriTalk reported that federal agency grades “were up sharply and nearly across the board in […]

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Inside the Media Minds: Election Security Special

In this special election security-focused episode of Inside the Media Minds, our hosts Madison Farabaugh, Luca Pagni and Christine Blake sat down with John Sakellariadis of POLITICO, Joao-Pierre S. Ruth of InformationWeek and Derek Johnson of CyberScoop to hear their key focus areas surrounding the 2024 Presidential election cycle. From the potential legal battles, deep […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – September 13, 2024

In today’s edition of “This Week in Government Tech Media,” we look at trending coverage in the following areas: Identity Protection Among the usual cybersecurity-related news reported in the government tech media last week, we saw a small surge of articles focused on identity protection. Daniel C. Vock of Route 50 reported on the Transportation […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – September 6, 2024

In today’s edition of “This Week in Government Tech Media,” we look at the trending coverage in the following areas: The Billington Cybersecurity Summit Today marks the final day of the annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. And accordingly, there has been plenty of federal cybersecurity news breaking this week. FedScoop’s Caroline Nihill reported […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – August 29, 2024

In today’s edition of “This Week in Government Tech Media,” we look at the trending coverage in the following areas: Civilian Agency AI Last week, we looked at several media reports on AI developments in the Defense space; this week we look at AI news in the federal civilian and intelligence communities.  The Department of […]

This Week in Government Tech Media – August 23, 2024

In today’s edition of “This Week in Government Tech Media,” we look at the trending coverage in the following areas: Civilian Agency Cybersecurity There was lots of activity this week around cybersecurity at civilian agencies including Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In a […]