David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat's North American public sector business, has offered three recommendations for state and local government agencies to strengthen cybersecurity posture amid the increasing risk of ransomware attacks.

David Egts, director and chief technologist of Red Hat's North American public sector business, said the company has worked with Cloudera to develop a turnkey platform intended for data science functions.

David Egts, director and chief technologist of the Red Hat's North American public sector, recently took part in a recent Q&A session with ExecutiveBiz. Egts will be featured as a panelist during Potomac Officers Club’s Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment Virtual Event on August 26th. Click here to register for the virtual event. 

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 22, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of the North American public sector business at Red Hat, said adopting multicloud and automated information technology platforms could help agencies transform government service delivery and increase system security, GovCon Wire reported July 10.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat's North American public sector business, said adopting open-source tools can drive transparency necessary to address bias in artificial intelligence, GovCon Wire reported May 12.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 21, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector segment, recommended that agencies create exit and backup strategies for cloud-hosted data and applications in order to reduce egress fees charged for moving from one provider to another, GovCon Wire reported April 8.

David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, wrote in an article published Friday on FedScoop about how federal agencies can develop and implement Agile principles to improve their ratings on the Federal Information Security Modernization Act scorecard.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 10, 2019 — David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s (NYSE: RHT) North American public sector division, advises federal agencies to adopt commercial open source software to help advance their information technology modernization efforts, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 23.

David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, has said that organizations need to undergo a cultural shift and move away from traditional approaches to achieve digital transformation.

David Egts, chief technologist of the North American public sector business at Red Hat, has been elected as co-chair of the board of directors for the software and services division of the Software & Information Industry Association. Egts will lead the board with Neil Wainwright, CEO of UpHabit, SIIA said Monday.

David Egts, chief technologist of North American public sector at Red Hat, has said federal agencies seeking to gain access to high performance computing should leverage open source and hybrid cloud platforms.

David Egts, chief technologist of North American public sector at Red Hat, has said there are ways agencies can optimize their technology stack while building up their security posture. Egts wrote in a FedScoop article published Tuesday that one of the approaches agencies can do is collaborating with vendors to determine whether an operating system or software offers the security capabilities that they need.
 

David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s North American public sector, has said there are several options the federal government can consider to build up its workforce’s cybersecurity and information technology skills and one of those is to explore open-source training. “The proliferation of open source software has changed the training landscape …

David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s North American public sector, has said federal agencies should assess open source code for cyber vulnerabilities prior to adoption. Egts wrote in a Nextgov piece published Monday that agencies should monitor open-source libraries and repositories that developers use to download the code and deploy …

David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat‘s public sector business, has said public sector organizations may encounter challenges in adopting DevOps in their information technology systems due to a culture that focuses on long-term initiatives. TechTarget reported Tuesday that Egts believes the procurement culture in government is used to multiyear programs supported …