Jim Wiggins is the Executive Director of the Federal IT Security Institute and the Wounded Warrior Cyber Combat Academy. He's one of the keynote speakers for this year's GovDefenders free online cybersecurity conference. We've sat down with Jim beforehand to discuss different aspects about cybersecurity training including why budgets for training are decreasing even when spending is increasing, what qualities to look for in a IT security professional, and how training has evolved over the last decade.

Many professionals are unaware how to troubleshoot, load, or configure their devices and will turn to their IT department for help. Doing so results in lost time, frustration, and third party assistance. Now there is a simple solution that CAD and GIS users can practice to configure their mobile apps.

FullCircle Mobile App is a configurable platform that supports web, mobile and SmartPens. This provides organizations with the flexibility that they need to address all possible field requirements while minimizing the impact on IT staff.

John Nicholson is the President of the Washington D.C. Metro Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and one of the keynote speakers during this year's GovDefenders Cybersecurity Virtual Event. In preparation for the big event, we briefly interviewed John about cloud computing. Watch the below video to learn: "What resources can the Federal cloud community tap into regarding contracting and best practices?" and "How can cloud providers leverage the CSA's Cloud Controls Matrix and are there any currently leveraging it?"

In this week's Technically News: Federal Data Center Consolidation Changes Approach; BYOD: An Issue for the Army; Government CIOs Need Line-of-Sight Authority; Everyone Has a Role in Cybersecurity; Phone-DOS Attacks Target Government Offices.

The GovDefenders Cybersecurity Virtual Event, presented by DLT Solutions, is a free cyber event focused on the public sector. Join us from your desk on Wednesday, April 24 as professionals from leading IT companies, including NetApp, Symantec, ForeScout, Red Hat, Quest Software, now a part of Dell, SolarWinds, and DLT Solutions, as we discuss trends, best practices, and the future of public sector cybersecurity.

Last month the National Institute of Standards (NIST) database of software vulnerabilities, the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), was taken offline for several days because it was discovered that the web servers hosting the NVD, as well as other government databases, had been compromised by a software vulnerability. In this blog, I’ll review the problem; next week I’ll identify tools and processes that can help solve the problem.

tl;dr: DB and RPM storage are the big system design concerns, not memory or OS install. Average channel size is up to 15K packages at 250KB per, meaning 3.5GB of DB table space per channel. Actual RPM storage is about 30GB per channel. Make sure you can grow each partition easily.

I'll be posting a series of articles on tips, tricks and considerations on Red Hat's RHN Satellite system life-cycle management tool. Each new post will get a link here, so they'll be easy to find. I'll be putting things I've learned from my own mis-steps, inside track from friends inside Red Hat, and perspectives gained from talking with others who work with RHN Satellite on a daily basis.

In this week's Technically News: Veterans Affairs Tables BYOD Plans; U.S. CIO Wants IT-as-a-Service; How to Succeed Under LPTA; Congress Wants to Ban Government IT Purchases from China; The Seven Responsibilities of Agency CISOs. And in DLT Monthly News Roundup: DLT Increases Revenue by 16% in 2012; DLT Solutions Wins Air Force Contract Worth up to $23.2M.

LiDAR, a remote sensing system used for mapping the surface of the earth, has been around for decades, but it’s only in the past few years that it’s undergone a boom and is now at the heart of many government data gathering projects – from mapping desert terrain in Afghanistan to creating forest height maps.