This week in Technically Speaking: What IT Can Teach Utilities About Cybersecurity & Smart Grids; Open Source Benefits to Govt Outweigh Misconceptions, Report Says; 5 Ways to Keep large IT Projects From Tanking; Continuous Monitoring, Maintenance Needed to Maintain Cybersecurity; Improving Federal Cybersecurity Need Not Involve Congress.

This week in Technically News: AWS WorkSpaces May Spark Federal Demand for Desktop-as-a-Service; Agency CIOs Thinking Smarter as IT Spending Declines; Congress Embarks on Government IT Reform; How Federal Cybersecurity Measures Can Apply to Healthcare; DLT Builds Navy New Portal to Manage Oracle Tools.

We decided to teach our employees about cybersecurity. So we phished them to find out what would happen. Read about those results, the lessons we learned, and how we trained employees on the danger.

In this week's Technically News: 11 Concerning Cybersecurity Stats About the Federal Government; A Few Places Where Government Tech Procurement Works; Why Public Sector Gets Technology Wrong; Agencies Widen Open-Source Use; Who's in Charge? Cybersecurity: State vs. Federal Roles.

In this week's Technically News: Federal Agencies Lagging on IT Savings Mandate; 9 Trends for 2014 & Beyond; Users Offer 10 Security Tips to IT Staff; Is FedRAMP Working? It Better; Government Agencies Have No Way of Warning Each Other About a Cyber Attack

In this week's Technically News: The Danger of Cybersecurity 'Ghettos'; Federal Tiger Team Crafted Mobile Security Guidelines; Mellanox Optimizes Network Gear for OpenStack; Why We Need Digital Government Strategy 2.0; Federal Agencies Advised To Brace For Big Data; DLT, NetApp Unveil Cloud Storage Suite for Govt Market.

As we are at the close of this year's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which also marked the launch of the Healthcare.gov web site, it seems fitting to take a look at healthcare-related cybersecurity risks.

Today, Garrett Dunwoody brings us insight into open data and security at the local level for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Garrett spent a decade involved in the geospatial technology space within the public sector before taking on the role of Open Data Manager for San Mateo County.

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Jim Wiggins is the Executive Director of the Federal IT Security Institute and winner of the 2011 "Educator of the Year" award from the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association. Today, Jim weeds through the wild, wild west of cybersecurity training and the important skills needed to develop cybersecurity professionals in an ever evolving landscape.