The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants information on industry sources of information technology security services for ground-based satellite equipment. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says NOAA’s satellite and information acquisition division is conducting the market survey ahead of a potential upcoming procurement effort. SIAD will collect through Dec. 18, 2017 capability statements from interested contractors that have […] More

A coalition of security companies and advocacy groups has called on the National Institute of Standards and Technology to incorporate best practices on digital vulnerability disclosures into the agency’s updated Cybersecurity Framework, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Joseph Marks writes the consortium urged NIST to add a section on procedures to receive, review and respond to vulnerability reports. NIST sought public feedback on version […] More

Work to implement the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act along with continued digital transformation, cloud computing and data analytics initiatives at agencies were among several topics that led the federal IT landscape in 2016. The federal and commercial technology market landscape also shifted this year as the former Dell Inc. closed the industry-record $67 billion purchase […] More

Code Dx has released a new version of its software vulnerability management tool that complies with the Defense Information Systems Agency’s security technical implementation guides and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Anita D’Amico, CEO of Code Dx, said in a statement released Wednesday Code Dx version 2.3 is an application vulnerability management and correlation platform […] More

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has issued a request for information on potential industry sources to support the museum’s information systems security programs. A sources sought notice posted Sept. 20 on FedBizOpps stated the looks to contract with an IT security company to develop, manage and implement security controls across the facility as well as create a toolset or an […] More

ABI Research has predicted in a new report that the global threat and vulnerability management market will reach $8.6 billion by 2020 from $5.3 billion in 2015. Monolina Sen, senior analyst in digital security at ABI Research, stated cloud computing and big data are projected to give rise to new vulnerabilities, thus spurring the demand for […] More

The Washington Post has selected several GovCon firms for recognition in the newspaper’s annual list of the 150 “Top Workplaces” in the greater Washington area. The Post chose the recipients based on overall employee perceptions of leadership quality, pay and benefits and work-life balance strategies at the organizations. Companies selected for the list were broken up into […] More

Arlington, Virginia-based digital security intelligence and analytics firm Endgame has appointed Jon Brody and Jim Tosh as senior vice president of marketing and VP of engineering, respectively. Brody will be responsible for the company’s marketing strategy and Tosh will lead Endgame’s security technology product development work, Endgame said Wednesday. “Both Jon and Jim have a depth of expertise in enterprise security that will be […] More