Five high school seniors from Arlington, Texas, have become the first batch to complete their engineering internship in aeronautics at Lockheed Martin after seven months of exposure to laboratory and flight operations work. The five students – Austin Smith (Martin High School), Abdallah Shishani (Juan Seguin High School), Benson Phillips and Amy Hughes (Arlington High School), […] More

A new Research and Markets report has indicated that demand for software as a service has surpassed that for traditional network security software. The report traces the growing interest in SaaS-based network security services among enterprises to increasing cyber attacks and use of portable devices, Research and Markets said Friday. The market analyst also noted the companies’ […] More

New analysis from Research and Markets expects the cybersecurity market in Asia Pacific to achieve a 15.15 percent compound annual growth rate from 2014 through 2019 due to increased demand for cloud-based security services in the region. The report noted the surge in tablet and laptop use as a major market driver. “With the rising need to integrate networks with mobile […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More

New analysis from TechNavio released Jan. 14 has set a 38.3 percent year-over-year growth for the global mobile security market from 2013 to 2018, citing increased demand amid the growing popularity of bring your own devices. The study predicts that a high adoption in smartphones will drive the market and expects obsolescence of security services to pose restraints on the market. According to the report, threat actors launch malware, […] More

Knowledge Consulting Group has secured a $29 million contract for the second task order under phase 1 of the Department of Homeland Security program to implement continuous diagnostics and mitigation tools, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Jason Miller writes that KCG will oversee the rollout of McAfee‘s Vulnerability Manager and ePolicy Orchestrator, ForeScout‘s CounterACT and Splunk‘s big data analytics offering to […] More

A new level of public-private collaboration is needed to implement data sharing, incident response and detection strategies to prevent future cyber attacks, Xerox executive Chuck Brooks writes in a Federal Times opinion piece published Tuesday. Brooks, vice president and client executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Xerox, says massive hacking incidents in 2014 […] More

Research and Markets has released a new prediction that the global Internet security market will achieve an 8.1-percent compound annual growth rate through 2020 to reach a market value of $42.8 billion. The company said Friday this growth is due to an increase in adoption of Internet-based applications in sectors such as financial services and an increase in security threats. In its report, […] More

Research and Markets forecasts that the banking, financial services and institutions (BFSI) security market currently valued at $21.53 billion will reach a market value of $37.35 billion by 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 11.6 percent. The firm said Monday that the BFSI security market is segmented into two widely adopted submarkets, the physical security systems […] More

SANS has released the results of a new survey that highlights the challenges organizations are facing as they move to adopt critical security controls. The report shows that 63 percent of organizations cited insufficient staffing as barriers to their CSC transition, 54 percent attributed it to budget scarcity and 36 percent pointed to operational and security gaps, SANS said Wednesday. “Organizations across […] More

Research and Markets projects a 9.7 percent compound annual growth rate for the global smart grid cybersecurity market through 2018 due to what the firm sees as a growing complexity of cyber attacks on smart grid networks. “The security of the smart grid network is a major issue faced by power utilities because there is a frequent exchange of sensitive information […] More

Intel Corp. and San Jose, California have partnered to kick off a clean technology pilot program in the city in an effort to further economic growth, environmental sustainability and job creation. San Jose has installed a network of sensors using an Intel-built gateway for the Internet of Things with a Quark processor as part of […] More