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CarahCast is Carahsoft’s new podcast channel dedicated to bringing our listeners the latest in Government IT case studies, technology trends, recent legislation news, and Government IT best practices.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
CarahCast makes public-sector technology choices legible by connecting product capabilities with budgets, compliance duties, security risks, and operational constraints.
CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public Sector turns government technology decisions into concrete operational conversations. Its vendor presentations and moderated discussions move from remote support in a public school district to federal data infrastructure, endpoint…
K-12 remote support meets a 50-million-IOPS storage pitch; your IT shopping list starts sweating.
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A practical review of how wrist-worn devices can slip past phone-focused security policies.
Smartwatches become a credible security blind spot in this opening Wireless Threat Series episode, as Adrian Sanabria and John Bundy look at how Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular service, and sensors widen the attack surface beyond the phone.
A grounded look at how smart glasses turn everyday convenience into a wireless privacy concern.
Smart glasses land here less as novelty than as a wireless privacy problem hiding in plain sight. Adrian Sanabria and John Bundy keep the discussion practical, moving through AI assistants, visual queries, live translation, covert surveillance, and facial recognition without…
A personal, mission-focused account of mental-health support grounded in scope, resources, and individual responsibility.
Jeff Conroy's look at the Operator Relief Fund starts with a disarming joke about wearing pants, then settles into the harder work behind a long-range mission: deciding what belongs in scope, finding the right resources, and understanding where the organization can be genuinely…
A practical look at how UConn broadened Jira service management through incremental adoption.
Higher education service delivery makes a grounded test case for digital transformation in this review of the University of Connecticut's shift toward a broader Jira-based service model.
A practical look at making federal approval chains and service workflows visible enough to modernize.
Federal IT modernization is framed less as a platform pitch than as a workflow challenge. Leah Wood and Nick Nader of Isos Technology walk through the pressure agencies face from fragmented ITSM environments, limited visibility, compliance demands, and cloud-transition work,…
A practical higher-ed security briefing centered on resilience, ransomware, and DDoS risk.
Higher education sits at the center of the discussion, with the focus on how institutions build resilience before an incident arrives. The episode starts with secure DNS and DDoS protection, then moves through education-sector attack trends: ransomware, other cyber threats,…
A practical look at AI speeding up claims review while keeping the process tied to policy and evidence.
Healthcare claims oversight is treated as an operations problem: faster verification, cleaner audit trails, and fewer detours between the dashboard and policy sources.
A practical look at the app, access, and culture changes behind Atlassian's FedRAMP rollout.
It treats Atlassian's FedRAMP rollout as an operational shift rather than a headline, and that is where it is most persuasive. The focus stays on the concrete friction: apps needing AGC endpoint updates, some requiring redevelopment for Forge, and access moving to SSO-only.
Galen Druk and the FiveThirtyEight team parse Harris-Trump polling data debate by debate.
Former CIA acting director Michael Morell interviews intelligence veterans on Iran, China, and Ukraine.
Derek Dicker and Michael Detweiler from AMD join Scott Robon for a practical look at the public-sector data center landscape.
Scott Robon of Kerasoft Consulting speaks with Dr.
CarahCast's episode on modernizing federal government IT features Leah Wood, Director of Enterprise Solutions at Isos Technology, and Nick Nader, Senior Solution Engineer, discussing federal ITSM modernization with Atlassian.
CarahCast's episode on AI-powered portfolio management centers on federal agencies that must do more with less while facing tighter scrutiny, more reporting, and more accountability.
CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public Sector focuses on higher education attacks, with Anthony Jimenez hosting Rob Ayoub, product marketing manager at DigiCert, and Richard Wallace, senior cyber threat analyst at DigiCert.
Caracast starts with a federal technology briefing centered on Hitachi VSP1 and the pressure agencies feel around modernization, visibility, and automation.
Caracast focuses on healthcare claims oversight and the pressure agencies and contractors feel to make reviews faster and more defensible.
Cameron Starman opens a fireside chat with Atlassian senior solution engineers Regina Rivera and Cody Stevens.
Scott Robon hosts Jim Cosby, NetApp’s CTO for Public Sector and Partners, on CarahCast’s Data Center Innovation Series to talk about storage, cloud, cyber resilience, and AI in public-sector data centers.
Adrian Sanabria and John Bundy use Bastille Networks' Wireless Threat series to break down smart glasses, starting with Google Glass and moving to Meta's Ray-Ban models.
This episode features Atlassian and Clovity experts discussing how Atlassian's platform drives digital transformation in the federal government by modernizing legacy systems, leveraging AI, and offering flexible cloud solutions like Atlassian Government Cloud.
Greg Bensaman of Juniper Networks joins Scott Robon to talk about networking in the next-gen data center.
A deep technical discussion between Kerasoft's CTO and Vast Data executives on AI infrastructure's role in public sector transformation.
Susan Hunt interviews Joseph Hackman, founder and CEO of Permanence, and introduces his path from Intel’s machine learning work to building AI systems for software engineering.
Anthony Jimenez introduces CarahCast and Fortra’s Nicholas Oram, who focuses on domain impersonation, lookalike domains, and phishing protection for federal websites.
CarahCast’s "Securely Transforming Higher Education with the Atlassian Cloud Platform Part 1" centers on UConn’s move from separate issue-tracking systems to one Jira instance, with Anthony Jimenez hosting and Elisa Aviles-Bodwin and Will Harris from Atlassian and UConn leading the conversation.
CarahCast’s "The Risks of Smartphones on US Military Ships" centers on Brett Walkenhurst of Bastille and Scott Stapp of Defcon AI discussing why a single smartphone can expose a Navy ship’s location.
Scott Robon opens the conversation by framing compute as the pressure point behind public-sector AI.
Anuj Sajdeva, Dave Rahim, and Cameron Starman frame Atlassian’s higher-ed pitch around one pressure point: limited IT budgets alongside growing demand for tools, systems, and automation.
CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public Sector focuses on modernizing travel and expense management for utilities with SAP Concur and Phoenix Business Consulting.
Jeff Conroy, serial entrepreneur turned nonprofit CEO, shares how he's building the Operator Relief Fund to serve special operations and intelligence community members struggling with PTSD and trauma.
Caracast frames this conversation around how agencies can simplify endpoint protection and still meet compliance requirements with PCmatic's automated allow listing solution.
Joe Tabatabayan says he joined Kerasoft in 2012, when the company had 170 employees, and watched it grow to about 4,000 people after the doors opened in 2004.
Adrian Sanabria and John Bundy use Bastille Networks’ Wireless Threat Series to examine smartwatch security risks across consumer privacy and enterprise policy.
Introduction episode of Caracast podcast hosted by Anthony Jimenez, focusing on multi-factor authentication and criminal justice information services.
Steve Vogelsang, CTO of Nokia Federal Solutions, says Nokia has moved from service-provider routing into data centers, AI fabrics, and federal infrastructure while keeping its IP routing and optical transport business.
Caracast centers a district remote-support discussion.