John Lee serves as vice president of cloud services at Carahsoft, a role he has held since he joined the company in 2011. The nearly-three decade government information technology veteran is responsible for work to deliver the company’s pay-as-you-go licensing model for companies such as VMware, Red Hat, Adobe and Symantec, potential cloud service providers, system integrators and government agencies. Lee previously spent 10 years at FedBid and served as […] More

Research and Markets projects a 9.7 percent compound annual growth rate for the global smart grid cybersecurity market through 2018 due to what the firm sees as a growing complexity of cyber attacks on smart grid networks. “The security of the smart grid network is a major issue faced by power utilities because there is a frequent exchange of sensitive information […] More

Symantec has joined CrowdStrike, Norse, ThreatStream and Webroot as partners in LogRhythm‘s threat intelligence vendor consortium that aims to provide a platform for security analytics and intelligence services against cyber threats. The Threat Intelligence Ecosystem is intended to help customers use threat data from any of the ecosystem partners via LogRhythm’s Security Intelligence Platform, LogRhythm said Aug. 19. “Our ecosystem approach ensures that […] More

Intelsat announced Wednesday that Patricia Cooper has been named vice president of Government Affairs and Policy. With her new title, Cooper will be responsible for domestic and foreign lobbying and advocacy activities, managing Intelsat’s political programs and overseeing its political action committee. She will serve in the Washington, D.C. branch, reporting directly to Michelle Bryan, executive […] More

Norm Laudermilch, former chief information security officer of Verizon‘s Terremark division, has joined Invincea as its first chief operating officer and will report directly to Anup Ghosh, the company’s founder and CEO. “Norm’s proven track record in scaling both security start-ups and mature companies makes him an ideal partner in executing our market disruption strategy for fundamentally changing […] More

DLT Solutions will host an online event May 7 to discuss cybersecurity-related risks and problems that the government is facing. Representatives from companies such as BMC Software, Dell, ForeScout, Oracle, Red Hat, SolarWinds and Symantec are scheduled to attend, DLT announced Thursday. Those companies will focus on continuous monitoring and identity and access management issues in […] More

Tony Cole serves as vice president and global government chief technology officer at FireEye, where he works with public sector agencies and other systems integrators to gain knowledge of the global cyber threat landscape and adapt enterprise approaches to address the threats. The former U.S. Army officer and Symantec business development leader addresses security conferences […] More

Red Hat has given its North American Public Sector Distributor of the Year Award to Carahsoft Technology Corp. for its work to offer Red Hat tools to public sector clients in 2013. The companies started their partnership in 2005 and Carahsoft serves as a sales force to Red Hat in Canada, Red Hat and Carahsoft said Tuesday. Mike Byrd, Red […] More