We’ve posted the GovDefenders panel on YouTube. Moderated by DLT Solutions’ Chief Technology Officer Van Ristau, the panel featured Ken Durbin, Continuous Monitoring Practice Manager, Symantec; Paul Christman, Vice President, Dell Software Public Sector; and Wallace Sann, Regional Vice President – Systems Engineering & Federal Chief Technology Officer, ForeScout.

I recently appeared on a panel for Federal Times at their “The Next Chapter in Federal Cybersecurity: Continuous Monitoring & Identity Access for Secure Networks” breakfast event. I was joined by Deborah Gallagher, Director, Identity Assurance & Trusted Access Division, Office of Governmentwide Policy, GSA and Paul Grant, Strategy Advisor for Cybersecurity, Defense Department, Office of the CIO. We didn’t get through all the questions so I thought I’d continue the conversation here.

From time to time, the “fire and forget” strategy applies to managing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) search requests and litigation holds. When this familiar tactic rears its ugly head, collateral damage can happen to an agency or organization in legal proceedings because FOIA searches can’t be adequately justified or data isn’t properly preserved due to a breakdown in the legal hold process.

Two weeks ago, I attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2014 Conference and Exhibition at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. DLT partners exhibiting were Oracle, Symantec, SolarWinds, Informatica, and NetApp. I visited each of them to find out what they had to say about health IT.

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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.

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It’s that time of the year again. The leaves are changing color, the wind is chillier, and Christmas decorations are already out at Target. Today is October 1, and for a decade now that means it’s also the first day of Cybersecurity Awareness Month.