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Cloud adoption is accelerating across government, but so are concerns about compliance, risk exposure and rising costs. As agencies modernize systems and expand services, IT leaders face mounting pressure to keep things secure, efficient and within budget. How do you move forward without making compromises?

In this webinar, we’ll explore what it takes to modernize government operations in the cloud while maintaining control over risk, spend and governance. You’ll hear how counties, like Los Angeles, are turning data into action, optimizing cloud investments and building internal confidence around cloud initiatives — all while meeting compliance mandates.

You’ll learn:

  • How agencies are gaining visibility into cloud risks, data flow and compliance across departments
  • Ways to control telemetry and threat detection costs without sacrificing performance
  • What Los Angeles County is doing to build trust and alignment around cloud decisions 

Speakers

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Joseph A Cervantes

Cyber Governance & Operations Branch, Governance Risk and Compliance Division, LA County

 

Greg Carpenter

Senior Security Partner Strategist, Amazon Web Services

Greg is a senior security partner strategist on the AWS Global Security & Compliance Acceleration Partner Team helping partners and customers meet their security and authorization needs—whether it be architecting, configuring, deploying, or integrating tools and controls. Throughout his career, Greg has excelled at partner and customer communication and security and compliance support. Prior to AWS, Greg spent 4 years at CIS helping members and non-members as they navigate through their own cybersecurity strategy with a focus on cloud cyber security products and strategy for the global community. Greg has also contributed on several CIS Benchmarks, the CIS Controls v8 Cloud Companion Guide along with the latest version of the CIS Critical Security Controls. When his head is not in the cloud, he enjoys time with his family, time on his Harley, ice hockey, fishing, and mountain biking.

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Neil Gainey

Senior Public Sector Partner Solutions Architect, Wiz

Neil Gainey is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect for Public Sector at Wiz, focused on making “secure by design” practical at scale. He helps agencies and integrators align developers, DevOps, SOC, and emerging AI teams around a single, measurable cloud security program. Drawing on field work across AWS/Azure Gov, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD, Neil specializes in democratizing security workflows, prioritizing real risk, and consolidating overlapping tools without slowing delivery.

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Eleane Ye

Solutions Engineer, Cribl

Eleane Ye is a Solutions Engineer at Cribl with a background in product management and data analytics. At Cribl, she helps government and higher education teams optimize their telemetry to improve visibility, streamline operations, and enhance security. Passionate about turning complex data into actionable insights, she enjoys helping organizations get the most value from their observability and security tools.

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Bob Woolley — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Bob was the chief technical architect for the state of Utah’s Department of Technology Services, including the development of the state’s Utah.gov portal. Utah has been widely recognized in these areas with numerous national awards. He has also been a technical lead and RFP writer for the WSCA/NASPO Cloud and Data Communication Procurements. He has experience with state, county and higher education employee skill assessments and technology upgrade implementations, including large-scale database migrations from RDMS to NoSQL platforms. He has extensive private-sector experience with Microservices Architecture implementation and DevOps using hybrid cloud deployment patterns.