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

This week in Technically News: Open Government Week Starts May 12; White House Big Data Report Earns Praise, Skepticism; The Converging Worlds of Technology and Government.

This week in Technically News: Buzzword Engineering, or The Curse of Nicholas Carr; DHS Says Stop Using Internet Explorer; Tech Council Blasts IT Acquisition Report; FBI warns Healthcare of Vulnerability to Cyberattacks; Pentagon Plays Catch-Up with Cloud Computing

Aneesh Chopra, former and first chief technology officer of the United States, sat down with Van Ristau, DLT Solutions’ own chief technology office to talk about the upcoming GovDefenders Online Event.

This week in Technically News: Red Hat Touts Virtual Containers as Next Advance in Cloud Computing; In The Wake of Heartbleed, Open Source Software is Under Scrutiny; The Future of Mobility Goes Far Beyond BYOD; Severe Shortage of Tech Talent in Government, Says Report; DLT Solutions Announces CODEvolved

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.

This week in Technically News: Gartner: 10 Trends for Smarter Government; Middleware Integrates Systems Across Cloud, Internet of Things; Is Limiting Damage the Best Hope for Cybersecurity; Data Center Consolidation Best Practices: Lessons from the Trenches

Earlier in the week, John Slye, one of GovDefenders’ keynote speakers, sat down with us for a pre-event interview. He specializes in market trends, forecasting, and government spending analysis across vertical markets, including information technology, cybersecurity, homeland security, and defense.

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.