Keeping Governments Secure in the Cloud

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Cloud security is essential for any business but particularly for government agencies. On today’s episode, we speak with an expert in the field, Ravi Raghava, who is Chief Cloud Strategist at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). Ravi speaks about his personal experience with dozens of cloud deployments for civil agencies and shares best practices.

Acronyms

• ATO = Authority to Operate
• POAM = Plan of Action and Milestones
• CDM = Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation
• OCM = Organizational Change Management

Tweetables:

“Over the next few years, we will see a lot of traction and we will see accelerated workload migration to the cloud. It's not just one cloud but multiple clouds, and multi-cloud is becoming the new norm.” — Ravi Raghava [0:04:55]

“We are very strong advocates of OCM, and we work with our government customers to have a well thought-through strategy, providing the right skills, the right training, right medium of training to people.” — Ravi Raghava [0:25:43]

“Having those security frameworks in place, testing infrastructure, having those security tools in place nicely help you automate the entire thing because automation is key.” — Ravi Raghava [0:31:20]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Ravi Raghava on LinkedIn
GDIT
JFrog
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