FireEye Inc. has partnered with property and casualty insurer ACE Group to jointly evaluate the threat exposure of customers in order to help organizations mitigate cyber risks. FireEye and ACE will combine their technical knowledge bases for insurance providers to view the cybersecurity readiness of customers and adjust cyber insurance based on their risk profile, FireEye said […] More

The ThreatScape suite from iSight Partners is now available to clients of Tripwire‘s security software under the latter’s Adaptive Threat Protection program. ThreatScape’s inclusion allows Tripwire Enterprise access to the API’s cloud-based “indicators of compromise,” where intelligence to speed up threat detection and alerts analysis could be derived, Tripwire said Thursday. The combination also offers customers the ability to contextualize alerts, identify suspect file changes […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency is requesting information on potential industry sources in the planning and development of next-generation endpoint security system capabilities and technologies. DISA said in a notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps that it is looking for solutions that secure endpoints from advanced persistent threats and tools that manage endpoint operating systems. The agency has noted […] More

David Svec and his partners at Veris Group formed the Vienna, Virginia-based cyber consulting firm in 2005 to help public and private sector organizations adapt their enterprises to a new cybersecurity landscape. Svec’s government and business career includes stops at Booz Allen Hamilton as a risk management consultant and the White House in a critical infrastructure analysis role. In this conversation […] More

Raytheon has been awarded an 18-month, $25.5 million contract to demonstrate Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s close-air support system in flight. The company has kicked off flight testing for DARPA’s Persistent Close Air Support program on an A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft and connectivity tests with Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, Raytheon said Wednesday. “PCAS will help reduce close air support response times from as […] More

Lockheed Martin has provided U.S. Customs and Border Protection with a tethered aerostat-based radar platform meant to help the agency detect potential threats along the southern border. CBP is testing the Persistent Threat Detection System for the agency’s border surveillance activities in collaboration with Lockheed and the U.S. Army, the company said Wednesday. The Army […] More

CA Technologies has updated its unified infrastructure management offering in an effort to help customers monitor critical information technology assets. The company rolled out updates to the tool’s analytics, alerting and cloud monitoring systems for users to avoid problems through predictive identification of threats in performance, CA said Thursday. “CA UIM’s scalable, end-to-end monitoring capabilities help IT organizations and service […] More

Science Applications International Corp. will provide Bromium‘s vSentry and Live Attack Visualization Analysis endpoint security products to customers through SAIC’s CyberSecurity Edge offering. “The evolution of cyberattacks and advanced persistent threats are making traditional malware detection solutions less effective,” Charles Onstott, SAIC vice president for cloud, cyber and data science, said Thursday. He added that Bromium’s products work to leverage micro-virtualization […] More

In a series of recent flight tests off the coast of San Diego the Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy victoriously took to the air with the unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout simultaneously with the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, what was their first time in flight. The testing took place aboard the USS Freedom Littoral […] More

NATO has added a FireEye-built threat prevention tool to the alliance’s Information Assurance Product Catalogue and certified the platform for use by member nations and partner organizations. The NIAPC vets information assurance products and packages for NATO Systems Operations Centers through three levels of assessment that determine which information classification those products can secure, FireEye […] More

A new FireEye study that looked into companies’ cyber defenses has found vulnerabilities in most architectures, which CEO David DeWalt says signals a need for a purpose-built offering against advanced, ever-evolving threats. The report examined attack data from more than 1,200 organizations that trialed but had yet to install FireEye products from October 2013 to March 2014 and […] More

Cisco has rolled out a cybersecurity service meant to help customers detect advanced persistent threats and protect extended networks from malware intrusions. The Managed Threat Defense offering is comprised of software, hardware and analytics tools for identifying security risks that cannot be detected by anti-virus programs, Cisco said Tuesday. A global network of Cisco security […] More