This week in Technically News: Three Types of Cybersecurity Threats (and two employees) to Worry About Most; Survey Suggests Federal Network Complexity is Limiting Data Center Consolidation; Feds Pursue Cloud Forensics Standards; U.S. Army Grants Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) for 21 SolarWinds IT Management Products

This week in Technically News: Senate Intelligence Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill Encouraging Data Sharing; GSA Wants to Add Cloud Category to IT Schedule 70; NIST Maps the Frontier of Cloud Forensics; DLT to Offer CloudBees Continuous Delivery Tools in Public Sector; Jim Propps Comments

Last week, I attended the AFCEA NOVA chapter luncheon where the guest speaker was Brigadier General (retired) Gregory J. Touhill, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity Operation and Programs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In his insightful and practical message, Mr. Tourhill demonstrated that protecting our critical infrastructure is a team effort that requires vigilance and broad participation.

Dr. Ross’ GovDefenders keynote focused on continuous monitoring, a topic NIST has been working with for over eight years. In his presentation, he zeroes in on two big questions: What is continuous monitoring and how does it fit into an agency’s risk management program?

This week in Technically News: Red Hat’s CEO Sees Open Source Cloud Domination; NIST Updating Mobile Forensics Guidance; Up to 70% of Government IT Staff Will Depart Within Five Years; DLT Solutions Ups Its Cloud Game With New Procurement Tool For Government Clients

This week in Technically News: Obama Signs Nation's First 'Open Data' Law; New NIST Guidelines Aim to Help IT System Developers Build Security in From the Ground Up; How Government Can Securely Leverage Cloud Environments; Open Source Lessons for Feds

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 few weeks ago, SolarWinds released the results of their 2014 public sector survey on IT automation, so we sat down with Chris LaPoint, SolarWinds’ VP of Product Management, to discuss the findings.

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This week in Technically News: NIST Drops Privacy Appendix From Cybersecurity Framework; Integrate Cybersecurity with Federal Cloud Computing Adoption, Says Karen Evans; How FedRAMP Lifts All Cloud Ships.