
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.
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Hacker After Dark 14 Oct 2026
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Bill BenderGUEST
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.

Bill BenderGUEST
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.

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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.
From Compliance to Resilience: Securing Digital Mission Systems at Military Scale
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Paul DucklinHOST
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?

Bill BenderGUEST
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.

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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.

Bill BenderGUEST
And the concept of zero trust, to your question, Paul, I don't think there has ever been an argument.

Bill BenderGUEST
It's accepting the fact that the enemy is already in your systems and in your networks.

Paul DucklinHOST
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?