In this week's Technically News: Five Critical Cyber Questions for the Next DHS Chief; Why a Hacker Conference’s Fed Ban is Bad News for U.S. Cybersecurity; What Economists Can Teach Us About Cloud Computing; Man Behind the Cybersecurity Framework; AWS Cloud Security Compliance Beats On-Premises.

Jim Wiggins is the Executive Director of the Federal IT Security Institute (FITSI). FITSI is a non-profit organization that provides a role-based IT security certification program targeted at the federal workforce. Jim was a keynote speaker at our recent GovDefenders Cybersecurity Virtual Event. His presentation was, “Building the Next Generation of Cyber Defenders" which you can now watch for free.

Before diving into system registration, take some time to set up a new organization and think through your workflow. You will have a better long-term experience by doing this work up front instead of trying to retrofit it. Managing when and how patches and updates from Red Hat are made available to systems and environments is one of the strongest arguments one can make for bringing Satellite into your shop.

This week in Technically News: Google Adds BYOD Management Tools for Android; 4 Government Programs that Drive Innovation; CIA, NSA See Benefits in Double-Barreled Approach to the Cloud; Top 10 Virtualization Killers; Can State & Local Govs Benefit From the US Commerce Department’s Cybersecurity Program; Oracle Launches Database 12c for Clouds.

To answer our cloud questions, we turned to our customers in the Department of Defense, federal civilian government, and state and local government. We asked them about their current IT initiatives, and the key drivers and challenges their agencies face when moving to the cloud. Take a look at our infographic to see what we discovered!

This week in Technically News: Speeding Up IT Procurement; Saving Government Tweets is Tougher Than You Think; Enterprise Cybersecurity: The Case for Using Analytics to Manage Risk; Defense Dept. Seeks $450M Cloud Building; What's Wrong with Cybersecurity Training; Five Steps to Make FedRAMP Work for You – According to DLT’s Chief Cloud Technologist.

This week in Technically News: Civic Hackers (the good kind) Help Local Governments; Agencies Hot for Big Data, But Plans, Resources Are Lacking; NIST, DHS Push Security Automation to the Next Stage; Amazon’s Invasion of the CIA is a Seismic Shift in Cloud Computing; Google & Red Hat Collaborate on App Engine in Private Clouds; DLT Solutions & Oracle to Save Navy $60 Million

John Nicholson's is the President of the Washington D.C. Metro Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and was a keynote speaker during the GovDefenders Cybersecurity Virtual Event. We've just posted his video: Security & Legal Issues in Cloud Adoption.

DLT Solutions’ Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) is a NetApp hardware, software and services solution that combines secure, available, and dedicated on-premise infrastructure with a variable, pay-as-you-go model that requires zero capital investment. We recently sat down with JC Collier, STaaS Program Executive, and asked him about the new offering.

In this week's Technically News: Flexera Software Study Reveals Organizations Are Unprepared for Software License Compliance Risks Arising from Virtualization; Energy Secretary Creates Cybersecurity Council; Federal Consolidation Effort Uncovers Additional 3,000 Data Centers; Federal Agencies Graded on Cybersecurity.