Experts from Claroty and Axonius say agencies are facing an expanded attack surface as more operational technology systems connect to the internet.

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Nate Fitzgerald, the head of product management for the Enterprise Security Group at Broadcom, said budget pressures will require new cyber approaches.

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Donna Roy, a federal advisory board member at Smartsheet, said agencies can digitize more forms by knowing the data they are collecting and standardizing it.

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Emilee Lehenbauer, vice president of federal at Qualtrics, said collecting and analyzing a wide range of feedback is key to fixing citizen interactions.

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Michael Riemer, the senior vice president of the network security group and field CISO at Ivanti, said ‘secure by design’ is more important than ever.

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Chris Townsend, the vice president of public sector at Elastic, said using a data mesh architecture will make accessing data less costly and more reliable.

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Wole Moses, chief AI officer for civilian at Microsoft Federal, said as agencies test AI use cases, leadership support remains a leading success factor.

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Gina Scinta, the deputy CTO and security evangelist at Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, said agencies need to recognize the benefits, risk of quantum and AI.

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Salesforce’s Mia Jordan and Michael Hornsby highlight why bringing employees into the customer experience improvement discussion is so critical.

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Cameron Chehreh, the VP and general manager for global public sector sales at Intel Corp., said network and data situational awareness will lead to AI success.

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