In this episode, Clint and Rob Wood, Chief Information Security Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), discuss scaling and managing security at a massive scale in a government setting. They explore the challenges of working with vendors, incentivizing behavior, and building centralized platforms and data ingestion pipelines.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Scaling Security at Massive Scale

09:13 Context and Incentives in Government

19:19 Incentivizing Behavior and Initiatives

38:50 Building a Centralized Platform as a Service

47:23 Data Ingestion Pipeline and Security Data Lake

57:27 Onboarding Data Sources and Teams

58:26 Moving Away from Legacy Infrastructure

59:25 Focus and Clean Pipelines

01:00:21 Making Security a People-Aligned Function