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Risk taking is unavoidable when it comes to modernization. Best selling author and retired four-star U.S. general Stan McChrystal outlines 10 control factors to help citizens and agencies alike take smarter risks. Carolyn and Mark also get some early insight on Stan's upcoming book Risk: A User's Guide.

Episode Table of Contents

• [01:44] Stan McChrystal of the Team of Teams
• [10:54] A Story of a Defensive System by Stan McChrystal
• [18:26] Stan McChrystal Talks About Inertia
• [25:57] Why Stan McChrystal Doesn’t Want to Worry About External Threats
• [35:40] Artificial Intelligence Based

Episode Links and Resources

• Risk: A User's Guide
• Team of Teams

Stan McChrystal of the Team of Teams

Carolyn: We are joined this morning by retired four-star U.S Army General Stanley McChrystal. We've had the pleasure of talking to General McChrystal on a few occasions. Good morning, General McChrystal.

Stan: Call me Stan, and it's an honor to be with you again.

Carolyn: Let me give our audience for those that have been living under a rock, just a few more of your credentials. So Stan is a former commander of the U.S and International Security Assistance Forces, ISAF Afghanistan. He’s the former commander of the nation's premier military counter-terrorism force, JSOC. He is best known for developing and implementing a comprehensive counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan. For creating a cohesive counter-terrorism organization that revolutionized the inter-agency operating culture. Is it fair to say, Stan, that’s the basis for your book Team of Teams?

Stan: It was certainly the foundation of it, and then our study beyond that.

Carolyn: Honestly, Team of Teams, just a little plug here, is the best book on leadership that I have read. If you haven't read that one, do that. But we're here to talk about a new book that will be out this October that is also sure to be a bestseller. Mark and I got to have a sneak peek. We got to read an early copy of the manuscript. We're here to talk about your new book, Risk: A User's Guide. We’d like you to talk to us a bit about the 10 risk control factors, and the four measures that are the foundation for your new book Risk.

Calculating Risks

Stan: We decided to take on Risk as a subject because through my career, there had been processes to follow. Calculating risk and acting on that too, to be able to measure the threats or risks to your organization. But it never connected with

When you have billions of data dependencies, and one goes amiss, how do you figure out where the issue is? Listen as Mark and Carolyn are joined by Andrey Zhuk of CTG Federal to discover how artificial intelligence is opening new doors for data security and recovery.

Episode Table of Contents

• [00:46] The Road to AIOps
• [09:07] Overarching Umbrella
• [17:25] Knowing the Unknown From Poorly Written Codes
• [27:55] Knowing the Unknown in the World of Tech

Episode Links and Resources

• Andre’s e-Book Software Intelligence for the Federal Government: The Road to AIOps
• Connect With Andrey Zhuk on LinkedIn

The Road to AIOps

Carolyn: I'm excited to introduce today's guest, , principal solutions architect at CTG and author of several eBooks. Today, we're going to talk about one of his latest eBooks, Software Intelligence for the Federal Government: The Road to AIOps. It focuses on cloud development migration in the federal government.

Carolyn: Let's start with the easy stuff. Tell us your story. What do you do? Where are you talking to us from? How did you get to where you are now?

Andrey: Sure. My background is actually electrical engineering. I used to design satellite systems and the networks that go along with them for the Department of Defense. From that, I went to the side of sales.

I was actually selling a lot of Palo Alto products and some optimization solutions. From there, I transitioned to the world of cloud. That's kind of where I got into the whole application performance management space. I was at a startup called Skyhigh Networks. They were one of the early cloud X security brokers. We were dealing with cloud apps and security cloud apps for government customers.

That's where I had the experience of dealing with the federal government workers, trying to modernize their applications. Then Skyhigh Networks got bought by McAfee. I was a solutions architect for cloud technologies with McAfee for a year or so. Then I moved on to CTG Federal to take on a principal architect position to help build their cybersecurity business with a little bit of the APM sprinkled in. We had a Dynatrace partner.

Knowing the Unknown About Satellite Stuff

Carolyn: Yes, we wish we could say that right upfront that we are partners. But before we get into it, I got to go back to the satellite stuff. How does that compare to what you're doing now, how long did you do that?

Andrey: Wow, probably six years, but ultimately everybody needs Facebook and satellite platforms get outdated like once every 10 years. So it's all about software.

Carolyn: Oh, so this is a lot faster for you then like, quicker pace.

Andrey: Yes.

Mark: The world that you're playing in now, Andrey, is it more high-level conceptual as opposed to the engineering work that you might have done, working on satellites?

Andrey: So it's interesting. The...