Allyson Fryhoff, managing director of Nonprofits at Amazon Web Services (AWS), recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the results of a recent survey that reported that more than 75 percent of nonprofits saw an increase in demand from their customers following the start of the pandemic. In addition, Fryhoff also discussed how the AWS Nonprofit team is helping its […] More

Lesta Brady, director of federal civilian sales at Google’s cloud business, said the use of Google Cloud and Google Earth Engine, a platform meant for Earth science data and analysis, helped the U.S. Forest Service at the Department of Agriculture analyze a decade’s worth of land-cover changes within an hour. The Forest Service developed new […] More

Kevin Coggins, vice president for Positioning, Navigation & Timing at Booz Allen Hamilton, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for the publication’s latest Executive Spotlight interview regarding the challenges facing U.S. military branches to equip our warfighters with the latest in data management, artificial intelligence and robotics. In addition, Coggins also discussed the advancement of satellite constellations […] More

Amazon Web Services has provided resources and recommendations to help organizations address a newly discovered vulnerability associated with the Log4j Java-based logging utility, which is part of the Apache Software Foundation’s logging services project. AWS released a GitHub-available tool that users can run to hotpatch Java Virtual Machines with Log4j 2.0 and later versions, Mukhtar […] More

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal and four-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for its latest Executive Spotlight interview to discuss his team driving new solutions for federal customers, the greatest challenges in digital transformation, Azure Government’s advanced capabilities, data processing for military service branches and the future for Microsoft heading into the […] More

Anchore has named Carahsoft, Red Hat, Microsoft and other companies to its new partner program that aims to mitigate cybersecurity risks and accelerate businesses' digital transformation efforts.

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Microsoft has publicly released its COVID-19 threat intelligence data in efforts to inform customers of new approaches in cyberattacks.

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Chuck Mosher, director for public sector enterprise domain architects at Red Hat, has said that open-source development can help government agencies quicken emergency response and simplify coordination.

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The General Services Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development are seeking information from the industry on how to enhance their cloud adoption, contact center, customer experience, and data analytics functions.

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Microsoft has introduced an open-source platform designed to make elections more secure and allow voters to privately track their votes. ElectionGuard is a free software development kit under the company’s Defending Democracy Program meant to enable third-party organizations and voters to validate election results, Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Monday.

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HackerOne has helped the Department of Defense launch the agency’s seventh bug bounty program, which aims to find security vulnerabilities in the public-facing websites and services of the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it provided its hacker-powered security platform for DoD’s latest Hack the Air Force event, which also marked the service’s third […] More

Symantec has found that a new cyber espionage group called Seedworm has started launch cyber attacks on dozens of government agencies, telecommunications, multinational organizations, oil and gas firms and other institutions worldwide since late September. Seedworm, also known as Zagos or Muddywater, collects intelligence data on targets across the Middle East and uses a new […] More