MeriTalk’s new Future-Ready Finance report, underwritten by Workday Government, shows many finance teams are still dealing with fragmented systems and manual workarounds that make confident decision-making much harder. MeriTalk recently sat down with Annamary Holbrook, director of federal solutions consulting at Workday Government, to discuss what the findings mean in practice. […]
Federal finance leaders estimate they lose an average of 35 percent of their work time to outdated financial management systems, driven by manual reporting, spreadsheet version control, repetitive data entry, and error resolution. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Travis Rosiek, public sector chief technology officer at Rubrik, to discuss how cyber preparedness is changing for FSIs supporting government missions and why resilient backup and recovery capabilities are now essential to mission continuity. […]
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The biggest threat to state and local governments isn’t one budget gap, it’s compounding uncertainty: shifting funding rules, rising compliance demands, and disruptions that trigger spending now and reimbursement later. In this episode of MeriTalking, Gail Emery sits down with Melissa Moore, chief financial officer of Buncombe County, North Carolina, and James Harris, senior manager […]
Federal cybersecurity leaders say agencies are struggling to keep pace with the growing attack surface, with new MeriTalk research showing that discovery is outpacing agencies’ abilities to prioritize and remediate risks. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with two cybersecurity experts at Acalvio, Suril Desai, vice president of engineering, and Ralph Kahn, general manager for federal, to discuss how AI-powered cyber deception works, why it offers a preemptive defense advantage, and how it supports federal cybersecurity priorities, including zero trust and layered defense strategies. […]
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MeriTalk’s Gail Emery speaks with Suril Desai, vice president of engineering at Acalvio, and Ralph Kahn, general manager for federal at Acalvio, about how cyber deception helps agencies detect adversaries earlier. They discuss how deception produces high-fidelity alerts, reduces security operations center alert fatigue, and strengthens zero trust by improving visibility into attacker activity. […]
The Department of Energy (DOE) rolled out a modern, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform powered by Workday, replacing a legacy, siloed environment using a repeatable model for agency HCM modernization governmentwide. It’s the first cabinet-level agency to bring its core human resources (HR) systems into a FedRAMP-authorized cloud – Workday Government Cloud. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Anish Patel, director of federal sales at Cloudflare, to discuss why shadow AI is often a workforce signal rather than rebellion; what an AI-ready security posture looks like across human, prompt, and agentic layers; and more. […]
On March 3, join leaders from across government, educational institutions, and industry for the 2026 Zscaler Public Sector Summit at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. to explore how Zero Trust Everywhere and AI-driven security approaches protect critical systems, safeguard sensitive data, and empower agencies to maintain trust in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. […]