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Passing is not staying.

Passing a CMMC assessment and staying compliant are two different jobs. William McBorrough joins Dr. Floyd to examine the compliance sustainability gap—and why policy on paper is not practice on the floor.

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Interview · September 2026

Passing the Test Is Not Staying Compliant.

William McBorrough, CISO and Lead CMMC Assessor at MCGlobalTech, joins Dr. Floyd to examine what happens after assessment day: sustainable CMMC compliance, operational evidence, governance, and the same policy-versus-practice gap now opening under AI.

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Long-form conversations, rapid signal briefs, and forensic Failure Files from the first chapter of the show.

01 Interview · September 2026 · Katie Arrington Q-Day: Building the Quantum Future Katie Arrington of IonQ joins Dr. Floyd to discuss Q-Day, post-quantum cryptography, trapped-ion computing, harvest-now-decrypt-later risk, and the decisions leaders must make now. 01 Interview · May 2026 · Dr. Rhonda Farrell Dr. Rhonda Farrell: AI Doesn't Break Your Organization. It Reveals It. The systems AI exposes were already broken. What surfaces when institutions deploy AI on top of unresolved governance debt. 02 Failure File · Mar 6, 2026 · 2 min Making Digital Accessibility Work In The AI Era | Dr. Michele A. Williams A forensic look at ungoverned automation routing humans into physical danger, and the control layers that failed. 03 Interview · Mar 5, 2026 · 50 min AI Governance: Balancing Innovation With Risk Management Col. Kathy Swacina and Taiye Lambo join Dr. Floyd to discuss Project Cerebellum, holistic AI control layers, CIO oversight, moral responsibility, and balancing innovation with risk management.
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