NCI President Brian Clark told analysts Wednesday the company could look to purchase companies with cybersecurity and health information technology offerings, the Washington Post reported Friday. “I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to complete a deal this year and accelerate our top line as we head into 2015,” Clark said at a conference call Wednesday, […] 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

Stephanie C. Hill, vice president and general manager of the civil business within Lockheed Martin‘s Information Systems and Global Solutions line, has been selected to receive the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year award from the Career Communications Group. The group recognized Hill for her 27-year career in engineering and leadership roles at Lockheed Martin […] More

GCS has partnered with Sharpe Engineering to develop streaming analytics products for verticals such as healthcare, cybersecurity and government by combining the companies’ geospatial and big data analytics technologies. The companies said Tuesday the products will be based on IBM InfoSphere Streams and employ real-time analytical processing applications. “We will combine our capabilities in geospatial […] More

Cybersecurity firm IID has rolled out a collaborative intelligence platform for public and private sector organizations to exchange threat information and coordinate incident response strategies. ActiveTrust features a data governance architecture intended to help an ecosystem of prescreened users control what, when, where and to whom they want to share data, IID said Tuesday. “Much […] More

Cisco’s CCNA Security certification has been approved as a required career certification for Defense Department employees with job roles in information assurance under the DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Workforce Improvement Program. The program’s advisory council certification committee recommended CCNA Security for DoD Information Assurance Technician Levels I and II, Cisco said Tuesday. Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, vice […] More

Good Harbor Security Risk Management and big data analytics software developer Context Relevant have forged a cybersecurity alliance that will work to help customers counter threats. Good Harbor’s cybersecurity risk management services will be combined with Context Relevant’s predictive analytics engine in an effort to help clients respond to data breach incidents, compliance issues, cross-border […] More

IBM will conduct cybersecurity research for Australia’s Defense Science and Technology Organization as the country aims to bolster its cyber infrastructure, ARN reported Monday. Brian Karlovsky writes IBM and the DSTO will collaborate on cybersecurity, analytics and cognitive computing research work. Glenn Wightwick, director of IBM Research Australia, said the company intends to contribute to the […] More

Parsons Corp. has introduced a new cybersecurity product that is designed to send crash information from reports generated by Windows operating system to a server for analysis. The Cran product is built to analyze information and determine whether the crash was caused by a hacker, Parsons said Monday. Parsons unveiled patent-pending Cran at the Washington-based […] More

Robert Michalsky, a cybersecurity principal at NJVC, has proposed a holistic approach to dealing with account takeovers, medical device intrusions, application break-ins, insurance fraud and other health information breaches. Along with HIPAA compliance, healthcare providers must also practice good information security hygiene and address policy gaps, Michalsky said Friday at the annual HIPAA summit in Washington. […] More

Former Transportation Department official Oliver McGee warned against rising instances of online attacks on enterprises, utilities and educational institutions in an interview with GSN magazine published Thursday. “Cybersecurity is about protecting the critical infrastructure of America, which is our food, water, finances, healthcare, transportation, businesses, shopping, personal identities and records, schools and colleges,” said McGee, who served deputy assistant transportation […] More

Mark Weatherford, a principal at The Chertoff Group, has been promoted to the senior member ranks at the Information Systems Security Association. Weatherford holds the distinction of serving as the Department of Homeland Security‘s first-ever deputy cybersecurity undersecretary and is also a former chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, Chertoff Group announced Tuesday. The senior […] More