177 Delivering Maximum Impact in the Public Sector

Our guest is Michael Anderson, chief information security officer for Dallas County — the eighth largest county in the United States. He oversees the IT security program for over 6,800 county employees and the electronic records for over 2.6 million residents.  Michael shares his career journey, including 10 years served in the Army in the Intelligence Corp, and over 20 years of strategic and tactical expertise across a wide-range of IT disciplines. We’ll find out how he and his team use modern tools to make the most of limited resources, the type of leadership style he uses to inspire and motivate his coworkers, and how he approaches hiring in a highly competitive jobs market.

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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.