Amazon Web Services and Splunk have initiated a project with 15 other technology companies to develop a common framework for standardizing cybersecurity data formats. Splunk said Wednesday the consortium aims to simplify taxonomy meant to help security professionals accelerate the process of ingesting and analyzing data through the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework. The initiative builds […] More

The Department of Defense has moved its award date for a multibillion-dollar enterprise cloud capability from April to December but information technology experts have maintained that a delay is not unusual considering the complexity of a multi-vendor approach. Robert Carey, president of Cloudera‘s government solutions business, told FedScoop that DOD needs to coordinate with the […] More

Mike Saliter, a two-decade enterprise sales and services veteran, has been named senior vice president of strategy at McLean, Virginia-based information technology services provider Steampunk. Steampunk said Tuesday Saliter joins the company from his prior role as global vice president for Splunk’s platform and cloud business. He previously led industry services, global strategic accounts and […] More

Joe Rogers, formerly a senior sales director of Cisco Systems, has joined CIS Secure to oversee enterprise sales and strategic account development. He holds over three decades of leadership experience in the areas of business development, technology sales and service, in support of federal and enterprise markets, CIS Secure said Monday. His career also includes […] More

Red Hat has partnered with stackArmor to use the latter’s offering to speed up the process of achieving authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud service on Amazon Web Services. “We are pleased to collaborate with stackArmor to help us accelerate the FedRAMP ATO for Red Hat OpenShift […] More

SentinelOne has expanded its Singularity Marketplace with zero trust, cloud ransomware security, threat simulation and automated vulnerability management offerings through integrations with Remediant, Blue Hexagon, Keysight and Automox. The company said Thursday its autonomous XDR platform now includes more cybersecurity use case offerings for enterprise and government organizations in need of cloud-based technology for detecting […] More

Carahsoft Technology will bring Visium Technologies’ data analytics and visualization platform to public sector customers through its contract vehicles and reseller partners. The TruContext platform from Visium is designed to help users glean insights from cyberthreat data and accelerate the decision-making process by ingesting any raw data and could detect vulnerabilities and exploits using the […] More

Carahsoft Technology has added five more providers under an existing blanket purchasing agreement with the Department of Defense for enterprise software products and services. The company said Tuesday it will expand the military’s access to cybersecurity and information technology asset management offerings through a new award that modifies the Enterprise Software Initiative BPA. Carahsoft will […] More

NVIDIA has launched a cloud-native application framework driven by artificial intelligence that works to rapidly detect cybersecurity threats including malware, phishing attacks and leaks of sensitive data. NVIDIA said Monday that the Morpheus framework is powered by its graphics processing units and designed to identify, capture and execute actions on cyber threats through machine learning.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to present Dana Barnes, senior vice president of the public sector with Palo Alto Networks, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for driving digital transformation and for his thought leadership across the technology and government contracting (GovCon) sectors. In Sept. 2020, Barnes was appointed as the senior vice president of U.S. public sector at Palo Alto Networks.

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Several experts said advancing the U.S. Air Force’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept will not only require services to employ artificial intelligence, machine learning and other emerging technologies to connect sensors and warfighters but also develop data standards, C4ISRNET reported Monday. 

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Blake Moore, a 15-year Department of Defense veteran, has joined collaboration platforms provider Wickr as vice president of strategy and operations. He will oversee the company’s strategy and help expand its presence across government and commercial sectors, Wickr said Monday.

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