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Mary Lazzeri

Mary Lazzeri is a former technology advisor and bureaucracy hacker at the Office of the Federal CIO and United States Digital Service. She now serves as head of federal for Bloom Works, a WOSB and EDWOSB.
People

Creating greater opportunity for women in digital services

The government can use its purchasing power to grow contracting opportunities for women-owned businesses.

Cybersecurity

ATO ASAP: Streamlining government security with a Federal Compliance Library

With communal resource for commonly used components, agencies could devote more time to security postures that are truly unique.

Modernization

ATO ASAP: Let’s finally fix the security compliance problem

The process federal agencies go through to prove a system is secure may actually be making us less secure. This is a problem that we must fix today, not tomorrow.