Harish Luthra serves as the consulting lead at SAP National Security Services — or SAP NS2 — and holds responsibility for program oversight, North American staff development and business development. He previously served as the national vice president of SAP Public Services, where he oversaw professional services sales and delivery for government clients, aerospace and defense corporations, and higher education […] More

The Defense Department has started to implement multifactor authentication and biometrics as a new Pentagon-wide security approach in an effort to counter cyber attacks, C4ISR & Networks reported Wednesday. Justin Lee writes DoD also intends to bolster its network access security through updates to its identity and access management approach. “The approach to cyber defense is expanding from its […] More

A task force formed by the Information Technology Industry Council‘s IT Alliance for Public Sector division has recommended multiple approaches for the U.S. government to bolster the federal cyber posture and ward off potential threats. ITAPS on Thursday sent the recommendations to Beth Cobert, acting director at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Federal CIO […] More

Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has observed espionage methods being used in cyberspace are somewhat similar to tactics that spies use in the physical world, Defense Systems reported Thursday. He told Defense Systems in an interview that many hacking groups target the private sector and he believes the U.S. should […] More

SAP National Security Services — a U.S.-based subsidiary of the German software and technology conglomerate — and Virtustream have partnered to deliver standards-compliant cloud services to federal agency clients. SAP NS2 will help agencies with migrations of applications into managed and secure cloud platforms in an effort to comply with the government-wide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the companies said […] More

Vernon Bailey joined SAP NS2 — the German conglomerate’s U.S. national security subsidiary — upon SAP‘s acquisition of Sybase in 2010 and now serves as the subsidiary’s vice president of sales. The 27-year information technology veteran oversees marketing and sales functions for SAP NS2’s database and technologies business and also is responsible for customer experience initiatives. In this […] More

Steve Risseeuw heads SAP‘s work with the Defense Department and its component agencies as a vice president at the technology services contractor. The 15-year information technology industry veteran started his current VP role in 2013 after three years of leadership over the company’s Army account and is also an eight-year veteran of Oracle, where he […] More

A third batch of veterans has graduated from a SAP National Security Services training program designed to help retired servicemen land information technology jobs with federal agencies and companies, the Washington Times reported Sunday. Jacqueline Klimas writes the 11-week SAP NS2 Serves course offers veterans advice on how to improve their resumes and communication skills and boost […] More

SAP National Security Services is working with the U.S. government to utilize big data and cloud computing technologies to support national security operations, two company executives said in an article published Wednesday on GovCloud. SAP NS2’s Carmen Krueger, senior vice president and general manager of cloud operations, and Hunter Downey, cloud solutions director, told author Kevin Jackson in an […] More

Leidos has been named a leading managed security service provider in North America and given the highest rating in customer satisfaction compared to other vendors in Forrester Research‘s latest Forrester Wave Managed Security Services: North America, Q4 2014 report. “Leidos continues to make significant investments in automation and extending our MSS capability … as [our customers] move their business applications […] More

Steve Fehr serves as senior vice president and general manager of license sales at SAP National Security Services, a U.S.-based subsidiary of SAP known as SAP NS2. He holds more than 25 years of experience in the professional services and enterprise software sectors and has held positions in sales management, operations management, business and information technology strategy, system integration, […] More

Cherreka Montgomery serves as national vice president of corporate development at the independent U.S. national security subsidiary of SAP – SAP NS2. She works with the Defense Department, intelligence community and systems integrators in her role. Prior to joining SAP, Montgomery served as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence‘s public affairs officer and worked as the […] More