Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Dave Wennergren, CEO of ACT-IAC and former CIO for the US Navy joins the show to discuss trends and predictions for government IT modernization in 2021. We also discuss the perspective of a government CIO, focus areas for ACT-IAC in the new normal and his thoughts about the future of acquisition innovation.

Marshall Kosloff and Saagar Enjeti, hosts of the hit podcast The Realignment, speak about the shifting state of U.S. politics on their show each week. And while they focus on political change, they spend a surprising amount of time focusing on technology, recognizing the industry’s power. The two joined this week’s Big Technology Podcast to discuss how they see the U.S. political system realigning after Trump and what that will mean for the tech industry.

Special Edition! 

We’ve been told for years how important passwords are, taught how to make them stronger and longer and better, and we frantically tear up our home or office when we can’t find that sticky note where we wrote them down. Life feels like it comes to a screeching halt when we’ve lost our passwords, but… what would life be like if we didn’t need them? Can your passwords truly become a thing of the past? Sounds a bit unnerving, but we can promise you, it’s always security first here at Microsoft.  

On this special edition episode of the Security Unlocked podcast, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla explore the journey of becoming passwordless with Alex Weinert, Director of Identity Security at Microsoft, as he explains why your passwords don’t matter and how going passwordless can protect you from attackers.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:   

• The risks that are being mitigated through passwordless authentication 
• Where the challenges lie within using passwordless authentication 
• The functions of Windows Hello, Microsoft Authenticator and FIDO tokens 
• How ML is used in these technologies 

Some Questions We Ask:  

• What does passwordless mean? 
• What are some common misconceptions or risks? 
• Where are customers on their journey to going passwordless? 
• hat is the end goal for passwordless authentication? 

Resources:

Alex’s Blog Post

Alex’s LinkedIn

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn

Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts

Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 

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Topics covered in this episode:

• Constant Folding in Python
• Update All Packages With pip-review
• Quantum Mechanical Keyboard Firmware
• Reinventing the Python Logo
• Private PyPI with Serverless Computing
• Beyond the Basic Stuff w/Python
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/218

Hrishi Dixit was born and raised in India. He wrote his first program when he was 13 years old... and he was hooked on computers from that point forward. He comes from a family of teachers and book store owners, so he was kind of an outlier - and, as a kid, having a computer was a luxury that his family couldn't afford. In his undergrad, he studied mechanical engineering, as computer science wasn't available. However, he brought in programming as much as possible. His graduate studies were completed at Cornell, where he worked side by side with Xerox scientists on interesting micro-mechanical systems problems.

Books have always been a thing for Hrishi - loving the tactile sense of holding a book. He also enjoys a good whisky, along with traveling - and he'd love to retire living in Scotland within walking distance of Laguvulin.. if he can convince his wife to brave the winters in Scotland. He worked for Schlumberger for a while on robotic drilling tools, but then followed the activity in California, around the time where the internet was evolving and Google was taking shape. He wanted to be apart of that.

Towards the end of his time in San Fran, he worked in fintech - loving the connection point between math, science and software. He was the founding CTO of LearnVest, which was sold to Northwestern Mutual. Around the time of the sale, he met the founder of his current venture and joined the team as a consultant, and then advisor. During that time, he built out the makings of an alternative investment platform - in fact, the first of its kind.

This is the creation story of Yieldstreet.

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Links

• Website: https://www.yieldstreet.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrishi-dixit/
• https://www.crunchbase.com/person/hrishi-dixit
• https://www.yieldstreet.com/blog/article/cto-interview
• https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2884038

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Today's conversation was inspired by a great blog post from Charity Majors.

We also discuss the Chrome team's decision to migrate Puppeteer to Typescript, and the way in which large tech organizations are increasingly interconnected by a set of open source tools and platforms. 

Lastly, we discuss the impact expanded funding for community colleges could have on the pipeline of software engineers entering the job market.

Today's lifeboat badge winner is Abdul Saboor, who answered the question: How do you convert negative data into positive data in SQL Server?

This week on the podcast, Eric, John, and Thomas talk about Jetbrains "Code with me" Protocol, Laravel Livewire, PHP Testing, and more...

Links from the show

• A critique on my 'A perfect storm' article.
• Whitehouse website goes dark
• Hello Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040!
• Intel Appoints Tech Industry Leader Pat Gelsinger as New CEO | Intel Newsroom
• Github apologizes for firing Jewish employee who warned about 'Nazis'
• Hey, why close this issue?
• Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks - {anonymous => 'hash'};
• Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog
• Code with me Protocol
• Datatables with Laravel Livewire

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