IronNet has partnered with Mandiant in an effort to help public and private sector customers boost cyber defense by offering IronDefense and IronDome products to augment the FireEye company’s cyber assessment and response expertise. The collective defense service offering jointly managed by the companies has a software and services combination meant to support security teams’ […] More

Representatives from industry and the U.S. Air Force’s Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapons Systems discussed new guidance for integrating security protections into the systems engineering process at a roundtable event. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, FireEye, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon participated in the discussion about the Department of the Air Force’s Systems Security Engineering Cyber Guidebook, the […] More

GrammaTech has named industry veterans Mike Armistead, senior vice president at FireEye, and Jim Routh, former chief security officer at Aetna, to join the board of directors of the Bethesda, Maryland-based application testing technology provider.

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Carahsoft Technology has added 65 new vendors to its contract with the U.S. Army for computer software and associated hardware deliveries. The company said Tuesday it now has 128 providers under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 contract. ITES-SW2 supports the Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions or CHESS program, which aims to help the federal government augment its enterprise infrastructure.

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Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, has urged the U.S. public sector and technology industry to work together on coordinating a multipronged cybersecurity strategy in the wake of a SolarWinds network management software breach that hit several federal departments, private companies and non-governmental organizations.

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By Light Professional IT Services has integrated a FireEye threat intelligence offering into the former's technology platform that offers an integrated live, virtual and constructive training environment for cyberspace missions.

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Mitre has issued the results of its assessments of cybersecurity platforms from 21 companies to help industry and government agencies improve their capabilities to detect and combat cyber threats. Mitre evaluated the cyber offerings using its ATT&CK knowledge base to emulate the techniques used by APT29, a cyber threat group believed to be related to the Russian government, the nonprofit corporation said Tuesday.

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The Texas Department of Information Resources has awarded Carahsoft Technology a contract to supply information technology products and services to the state’s public sector entities to support educational IT efforts.

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The Texas Department of Information Resources has selected Carahsoft Technology to help the state's government agencies and educational institutions procure a range of information technology products and services through a contract vehicle.

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Mitre has introduced an ATT&CK framework designed to help cybersecurity teams understand the behavior and techniques threat actors use to launch attacks on industrial control systems of energy transmission plants and other critical infrastructure.

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A MarketsandMarkets forecast, released by Reportlinker, said the global market for instrusion detection and prevention systems will see an 8.3 percent compound annual growth rate to reach $7.1B in value by 2024.

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A panel of experts at the CyberSat event discussed the lack of cybersecurity standards and how it affects satellite companies, Via Satellite reported Thursday.

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