John Slye’s GovDefenders keynote, “Meeting the Cybersecurity Challenge,” was one of the most watched presentations during this year’s annual virtual event. In it, he breaks down what federal public sector agencies are doing to combat cyber threats.

SolarWinds recently published an interesting infographic on cybersecurity based on a series of surveys they did with the federal IT community.

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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.

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What is a Man-in-the-Middle attack and why is it so worrisome for cybersecurity experts? Josh defines it, offers examples, and explains why they're currently so devastating.

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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.

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.