{"id":233597,"date":"2026-04-16T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/the-federal-governments-most-underrated-cybersecurity-tool\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:25:18","slug":"the-federal-governments-most-underrated-cybersecurity-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/the-federal-governments-most-underrated-cybersecurity-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"The federal government&#8217;s most underrated cybersecurity tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/radio\/how-agencies-can-operationalize-data-amid-rising-cyber-threats\/\">The federal government&#8217;s most underrated cybersecurity tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/radio\/how-agencies-can-operationalize-data-amid-rising-cyber-threats\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/radio\/how-agencies-can-operationalize-data-amid-rising-cyber-threats\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-16 11:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Safe Mode, we sit down with Philip George, Executive Technical Strategist at Merlin Group to talk about the real challenges federal agencies face at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI adoption, and post-quantum cryptography. Philip breaks down the disconnect between cyber spending and mission outcomes, why rushing into AI without sound identity management and data integrity is a recipe for disaster, and what evolving federal cryptographic requirements and shortened certificate lifecycles mean for government IT. We dig into why visibility \u2014 simply knowing what\u2019s on your network \u2014 remains the most powerful defensive posture regardless of the threat, explore the tension between zero trust and agentic AI, and hear Philip\u2019s counterintuitive take that the answer to AI-driven security challenges might just be more AI, purpose-built and narrow in scope. <\/p>\n<p>Also, Greg sits down with Chris Townsend, Elastic\u2019s Global VP of Public Sector, at the Elastic Public Sector Summit to unpack how agencies can operationalize data amid rising cyber threats. Townsend explains why open standards and cross-agency data sharing matter\u2014and how agentic AI can help modernize SOC operations by prioritizing alerts and speeding response times.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>In our reporter chat, Greg Otto and Derek Johnson break down the surge of AI-in-cybersecurity developments\u2014from Anthropic\u2019s Project Glasswing and the \u201ctoo dangerous to release\u201d Mythos model to OpenAI\u2019s trusted-access approach\u2014focusing on what these tools could mean for vulnerability discovery and the balance between real risk and hype.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/radio\/how-agencies-can-operationalize-data-amid-rising-cyber-threats\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government&#8217;s most underrated cybersecurity tool https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/radio\/how-agencies-can-operationalize-data-amid-rising-cyber-threats\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-16 11:01:00 Source Domain: cyberscoop.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/SafeMode-Guest_thumbnail-35.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24,27],"class_list":["post-233597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233599,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233597\/revisions\/233599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}