Earlier this summer, the DLT Cloud Advisory Group surveyed our public sector customers to find out where they stood in their adoption of cloud technology. It was no surprise that information security and data privacy continued to top the list as key obstacles holding them back from their migrations. Traditional IT models allowed CIOs and managers to physically see where their data was being stored; moving to the cloud has raised questions about who controls what, especially in terms of data protection.

This week in Technically News: NASA’s Shadow IT Issues with Cloud Computing All Too Common; The Rise of the Citizen CIO; How CISOs Help Lower Breach Costs; Google Poised to Become the Next Amazon in Cloud, Analyst Says.

We’ve reached the halfway point of 2013, which also signals the beginning of the federal fiscal year end (FFYE). This is a good time to take a second and survey what we’ve seen so far and what we can expect over the next six months.

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.

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

In this week's Technically News: 5 Reasons the Government Needs to be More Like the Tech Industry; Lawmakers: What’s Still Missing in Data Center Consolidation; 5 Keys to Getting Big Data Under Control; Oracle: 4 Reasons Why Information Silos are Hindering Cloud Advantages; Amazon Web Services Gains FedRAMP Compliance for GovCloud; CloudCheckr Monitors Amazon GovCloud.

In this edition: DLT Solutions Adds AWS GovCloud To Its Cloud Services; NIST Wants Your Advice on Cybersecurity Document; Red Hat Embraces BYOD; Steps for Protecting Your Data Center After Virtualization; State of the Union to Discuss Cybersecurity.

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esterday, I had the privilege of attending Deltek’s Federal Executive Breakfast where Robert Bigman, the CIA’s former Chief Information Security Officer gave a presentation on cybersecurity and his time with the Agency. My five key takeaways are:

Technically News: Government Closes More Data Centers, NetApp Links to Amazon’s Cloud, Cybersecurity Needs of the Borderless Enterprise, Agency Saves $500 Million Through Technology, and More