Government Contracts And Cybersecurity With Mike Crandall

  Working with the government can be very rewarding yet challenging especially when you are under contract. Today, Bob Roark talks to https://www.linkedin.com/in/crandallmike (Mike Crandall), the CEO of http://www.digitalbeachhead.com/about.html (Digital Beachhead) which is a company that seeks to build customer trust and corporate value by delivering Information Technology (IT) and Consulting Services Solutions in inventive economical ways. Mike describes what they do, who their target audiences are, and what they look forward to. He shares how it is working with the government and how they find people to fulfill their contracts. He also talks about cybersecurity including how they protect their clients in this field. --- Watch the episode here:Listen to the podcast here:[smart_track_player url="" title="Government Contracts And Cybersecurity With Mike Crandall" image="http://businessleaderspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/BLP-SquareLogo-WhiteBlueBG1400x1400.png" background="default"] Government Contracts And Cybersecurity With Mike CrandallWe have Mike Crandall. He's the CEO of http://www.digitalbeachhead.com/ (Digital Beachhead). It is nice to be here. Thanks, Bob. Mike, thank you so much for taking the time. Tell us about your business and who you serve. My company is Digital Beachhead. It's a term I coined on a performance report back when I was in the military and the commander asked me, “What is a digital beachhead. How dare you to say you can protect it, that you're in charge of it and then you're so good at it?” I explained that he has email and that's what I protected. Instead of a typical beachfront, you have the digital one, which was everywhere. His eyes lit up and he was like, “That digital beachhead is everywhere.” Years later, the Under Secretary of Defense used it in a speech, saying that the adversary had secured a digital beachhead on our network. They went from my performance report to a Wing Award on up. The Pentagon had heard the word and that got incorporated in a s