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Bill Bender

Bill Bender

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. William "Bill" Bender, former USAF CIO, now Strategic Advisor at Amplify Federal and cybersecurity board member.

Oct 15, 2026

43:27
What happened in these last two games?
43:29
Well, I mean, the Missouri game was a stunner with the way that they were able to limit the, the Florida running game, Jaden ball.
43:36
And, uh, Aaron Filo, I think that fourth down in the first half was really emblematic of what happened, and then it carried over into the South Carolina game, and now that's life in the SEC.
43:47
You're going to have a tough game every week, and you're getting into a situation where you're up against Texas, and Texas is... kind of back to know a corner two at home and you're playing that nasty defense.
43:58
So, I mean, the good is John Summerill certainly changed the culture.
44:02
And we were talking about Florida as a potential playoff team two weeks ago.
44:06
The bad news is, I don't even know if it's bad news.
48:57
It was the game in the swamp against the
18:35
How does something like that, where you worry about people identifying themselves or devices identifying themselves in a much more ongoing way than perhaps in the past, how does something like that look in an organisation like the US Air Force, which is just so very big, 700,000 endpoints?
18:57
Well, I think it goes back to the first part of the conversation where first understanding where you are and how it all comes together, and then a mission-driven assessment.
19:08
We called it mission assurance.
19:10
And that exercise, intellectual as it is, helps you identify the critical nodes of These mission threads had to be determined and then prioritized inside of that.
19:24
And the concept of zero trust, to your question, Paul, I don't think there has ever been an argument.
19:31
It makes perfect sense.
19:33
It's accepting the fact that the enemy is already in your systems and in your networks.
24:35
How do we sort out the cybersecurity challenges that that brings, particularly for organizations as important and as broad and as deep as the U.S. Air Force?

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