In this week's Technically News: Students Face Cyber War Game with NSA Hackers; Red Hat’s “PaaS Queen” on OpenStack; 6 Steps to Secure Systems for Sequester; SolarWinds’ Firewall Security Manager Reviewed; DLT Solutions Finds Promise in State & Local Work.

In this week's Technically News: Can Open Standards Help During the Next Major Disaster; The Search Engine That Finds Everything; DISA Moving Exabytes to the Cloud; Cybersecurity Budgets Increase Across Departments; How Do You Tax the Cloud; U.S. Navy Looks to the Cloud

In this week's Technically News: Federal Data Center Consolidation Changes Approach; BYOD: An Issue for the Army; Government CIOs Need Line-of-Sight Authority; Everyone Has a Role in Cybersecurity; Phone-DOS Attacks Target Government Offices.

In this week's Technically News: Veterans Affairs Tables BYOD Plans; U.S. CIO Wants IT-as-a-Service; How to Succeed Under LPTA; Congress Wants to Ban Government IT Purchases from China; The Seven Responsibilities of Agency CISOs. And in DLT Monthly News Roundup: DLT Increases Revenue by 16% in 2012; DLT Solutions Wins Air Force Contract Worth up to $23.2M.

This week in Technically News: Amazon Reportedly Signs $600M Cloud Deal With CIA; Data-Centric Cybersecurity in the Time of Shared Infrastructures; US Expanding Cybersecurity Watch; The Public Sector Needs Proactive Cybersecurity; Cybersecurity: Crime, Warfare, or Scaremongering.

This week in Technically News: Hacked Federal Cybersecurity Databases Raise More Alarms; Is Your City the Tech Smartest; Could WW3 Start with a Cyberattack: Symantec's CTO Weighs In; Will Sequestration Compromise Agency Cybersecurity.

In this edition: Symantec CTO: Enterprise Security Still Needs Humans; As Data Centers Consolidate, Those Remaining Need to be More Efficient; Complexity is Cybersecurity’s Real Enemy; Cybersecurity Challenges in 2013; GitHub Hires First Government Liaison.

In this edition: Big Data Saves Money & Lives; FEMA Aims to Bring Geospatial Data into Cloud Environment; Symantec Finds Stuxnet Worm Traces from 2005; Connecticut Increases Power Grid’s Cybersecurity; Seven Actions for Governors on Cybersecurity.

In this edition: Red Hat’s Big Data Strategy; NetApp’s FlashRay to Disrupt Enterprise Storage; Federal IT at “High Risk”; Open Data Success Requires Streamlining and Standardization; The Case for Paying for Open Source.

In this edition: Cloud Superstars Have Their Heads in the Cloud; Why You Should Pay for Open Source Software; Identity Management Is Complicated; Converged Infrastructure is the Future of Data Centers; Red Hat’s Jim Whitehurst Looks 20 Years Into the Future; 12 IT Predictions from the Federal Government.