Cybersecurity experts are urging government agencies to accelerate the adoption of zero trust capabilities in the wake of a cyber attack involving a vulnerability in SolarWinds’ Orion software, FedScoop reported Saturday. “They’re kind of operating on the fly,” Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and compliance at Zscaler. “They’re buying one solution and thinking they’ve got zero trust now.” 

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Aaron Duchak, an 18-year software industry veteran, has been named regional vice president at MuleSoft's federal business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. formerly regional sales director at Splunk's federal unit

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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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Access management firm Okta has recognized Carahsoft for the latter’s public sector distribution efforts.

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Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new program that seeks to help independent software vendors secure authority-to-operate certifications through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and other compliance programs. The ATO on AWS initiative aims to provide ISVs with tools, training, control implementation details and CloudFormation templates as well as guidance from the company’s […] More