Cyber breaches against government agencies seen almost an inevitability these days, it’s less of a question of “if”, but “when?”

So what should your agency do when a breach occurs? That’s the topic of a new whitepaper – Anticipating the Breach – from DLT partner, Symantec.

Don’t Miss these 6 Transportation Design Classes from AU 2015 – Now Online!

As you may know by now, many of the classes from Autodesk University 2015 are now online and available for free viewing. If you’re a civil or transportation engineer/designer this is good news since many of these classes provide tips and tricks for working smarter and getting more from your Autodesk software investments.

To enable our backups inside AWS, we have been leveraging Architect NBU within AWS.

Our environment above consist of a NetBackup Master/Media server.

EC2 instances of clients. Backing up to S3, all within one enclave.

Veritas NetBackup and Amazon Web Services combined has given us the capability to grow a backup infrastructure immensely with reliability and efficiently across multiple virtual environments. To, from and within the cloud.

Just as millions of federal workers and contractors received confirmation that their data had indeed been breached at OPM earlier this year, another threat is lurking.

The OPM’s new cybersecurity adviser, Clifton Triplett, says he expects ISIS may breach the agency’s systems too, reports NextGov.

The advantage is firmly in the hands of the attackers right now. The number of easy to use tools available and the speed that new vulnerabilities are incorporated into these tools greatly outpaces the speed that most organizations can stay on top of the threats. No matter how many precautions you have taken, a breach, or incident will occur. Although there are many things you can do to minimize the risk of a breach, you should operate under the assumed breach mentality — you have already been breached, you might just not know it. What are you going to do now?

2015 was a prolific year for cybercrime. In the public sector, OPM was the banner breach (full cost as yet unknown, but the feds are spending $133 million on credit monitoring alone).  Meanwhile in the private sector, hacking cost the average American firm $15.4 million per year, with the more costly cybercrime carried out by malicious insiders, DDoS and web-based attacks.

As a Solutions Engineer at GitHub working with government customers, I speak to a lot of organizations looking to improve their software development process. They recognize GitHub as the most popular code repository and sharing environment in the world - where more than 11 million developers worldwide discover, fork, and contribute to over 29 million projects. Some of these agencies are already hosting their own projects on the site.

Traditional IT security has always focused on static, well-controlled IT environments. However, with the advent of BYOD policies and more and more mobile devices connecting to workplace networks, a new, more fluid paradigm has evolved. How does IT make the shift and take charge of these dynamic and very difficult to control environments?

DC on Track to Meet Sustainability Goals thanks to Data-Rich City Models

Washington, D.C. is on a mission – to become the greenest, healthiest, and most livable city in the U.S. by 2032 as outlines in the Sustainable DC 2032 plan.

On November 19th, FedScoop honored the top 50 leaders from federal tech community honored at the annual FedScoop 50 awards. FedScoop received more than 250,000 votes for its annual awards, which were announced on the 19th at the Hay-Adams Hotel overlooking the White House.

DLT's own, Brian Strosser, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing was honored with the Industry Leadership award.