Vormetric has moved to further build up its data security offerings by integrating IBM’s analytics tool for identifying threats into a data security platform. IBM’s QRadar security information and event management technology has been integrated into Vormetric’s platform for users to view data access information through dashboards, reports and displays, Vormetric said Thursday. The companies […] More

HP Enterprise Services has introduced a new mobility management offering for U.S. public sector agencies that seek to securely access applications from multiple devices. The cloud-based mobility service offering is hosted on HP’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program cloud environment in order to comply with regulations, HP said Wednesday. Bryan Coapstick, mobile innovation director for […] More

CGI Group is supporting an OpenText-hosted annual innovation event that showcases enterprise-grade information management technologies globally. CGI has been working with OpenText for more than a decade and serves as a premier-level sponsor of this year’s OpenText Innovation Tour, CGI said Tuesday. “As one of our important global partners, CGI is helping OpenText take our innovations […] More

Mark Garfiled, formerly senior vice president of finance and chief accounting officer at Brightstar, has joined Symantec to serve as CAO at the security software maker. The appointment took effect Monday and he will report to Symantec Chief Financial Officer Thomas Seifert, the company announced Monday. During his time at Brightstar, Garfield implemented SOX level internal controls such as an […] More

A NASA spacecraft carrying a Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built weather radiometer has been placed in orbit to start measuring rainfall and snowfall levels across the world. The Global Precipitation Imager observatory satellite is spinning at 32 revolutions per minute and works to map global precipitation every three hours, Ball Aerospace said Tuesday. “GMI is […] More

Kratos Networks Inc., a Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary, has unveiled a service management tool for satellite and terrestrial network clients to monitor the condition of an entire network. The NeuralStar Service Quality Manager technology works to manage various network services and devices across satellite and Internet protocol infrastructure layers, Kratos said Tuesday. “NeuralStar SQM […] More

Ciber has transitioned the Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital‘s Infor Lawson Enterprise Financial Management system to a new external hosting provider. The company said Friday it helped to install, manage and test applications and software for the hospital in order to adopt a new hosting configuration for service-level upgrades. “As reimbursement rates continue their downward trend and the […] More

FireEye Inc. has launched a new subscription-based cyber defense offering for customers to identify threats and respond to attacks. The FireEye Managed Defense technology is designed to combine a continuous monitoring system, threat intelligence and context from the FireEye Security Platform, the company said Tuesday. Yanek Korff, vice president of FireEye Managed Defense, said the fresh […] More

Microsoft has introduced a new cloud-based mobile tool built to detect and gather location data from GPS satellites, The Register reported Monday. Simon Sharwood writes the Cloud-Offloaded GPS Experimental Kit is developed for mobile devices to log GPS signals for cloud processing. Microsoft built the Low Energy Assisted Positioning cloud server to receive GPS signals and […] More

Carlos Fernandes serves as director of Salient Federal Solutions‘ Cyber Security Center of Excellence and recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Insurance Technology Association. The more-than 21-year information security veteran was the founder, managing principal and CEO of Agile Cybersecurity Solutions prior to joining Salient. The Air Force veteran has also held leadership roles at CACI, L-3, Booz Allen […] More

Dave Frymier, chief information security officer at Unisys, believes a national infrastructure cybersecurity framework can be implemented by offering incentives or establishing mandatory standards, eWEEK reported Tuesday. “This framework addresses more of an economic problem more than a technical one,” Frymier told the magazine. Robert Lemos writes the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s propulsion system, consisting of booster and upper-stage engines and spacecraft attitude control thrusters, has helped launch a military navigation satellite to space from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. its RS-68 booster engine, RL10B-2 upper-stage engine and 12 monopropellant hydrazine thrusters have propelled Boeing’s GPS IIF-5 satellite from United Launch Alliance’s […] More