Frequent Technically Speaking blogger Van Ristau, CTO at DLT Solutions, is this year’s moderator for the GovDefenders’ panel on the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. He was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about it.

I’ve recently been on a bit of a hacking movie binge. While most people write them off as pure fantasy, even the worst have cybersecurity lessons we can learn from - yes, even Weird Science. Here are four movies and what they teach. Consider this Hollywood Cybersecurity 101.

Virtualization is the fancy, not-so-new-ish technology that everyone wants to deploy right now. But how do we protect such a technology?

The market for wearable technology will explode over the next three years, bringing about the age of the Internet of Things and everyday cybersecurity issues like the aforementioned. And thanks to a recent Symantec finding, hackers aren’t waiting for popular adoption before using what’s already on the market to spy. You think BYOD is bad now? Hold tight.

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.

While state and local agencies may not have such clear mandates to adopt continuous monitoring, that doesn’t mean they couldn’t stand to benefit from the practice. Here's what they can learn from their Federal counterparts.

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.

In today's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog, SolarWinds' VP of Product Management, Chris LaPoint, takes us behind the scenes of USB drive security awareness and ways to ensure mobile data remains secure.

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.