Last week, Dr. Ron Ross, keynote speaker at GovDefenders, sat down with DLT Solutions’ chief cloud technologist, David Blankenhorn, for a pre-event interview. Dr. Ross is a fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wherehis current focus areas include information security and risk management.

A couple weeks ago, SolarWinds released their newest federal IT cybersecurity survey. Chris LaPoint, VP Product Management, SolarWinds, was kind enough (as always) to talk with us about their findings and provide context to them.

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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.

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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.

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