Gov Tech Today hosts Russell Lowery and Jennifer Saha recap this year’s RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco, noting the event’s commercial scale and a smaller, dedicated public-sector track. Key takeaways include how “agentic AI” is moving from buzzword to reality, with public agencies urged to treat AI agents like users—requiring identity and access controls, least-privilege permissions, logging, and auditing—within existing governance frameworks such as FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and NIST. They discuss governance as a primary security control, growing attention to critical infrastructure and physical access as cybersecurity issues, and the challenge of tiny local utilities lacking staff and budgets, suggesting collaboration and shared services. The conversation also flags procurement and tool sprawl concerns, and explores what outcome-based security might mean for measuring automation, effectiveness, and ROI in government contracts.
00:00 Welcome to Gov Tech Today
00:15 What is RSA Conference
00:53 San Francisco Cleanup Talk
01:52 Public Sector at RSA
04:42 AI Everywhere at RSA
05:34 Agentic AI as Users
07:42 Governance as Security Control
09:25 Critical Infrastructure Cyber Shift
10:57 Small Districts Big Risk
12:38 Shared Services and Support
14:20 Procurement Must Catch Up
16:31 Outcome Based Security Metrics
18:09 Wrap Up and Next Year
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