FireEye has collaborated with Microsoft to analyze a command and control obfuscated tool that attempted to compromise the security of a Microsoft-run information technology community portal. FireEye said Thursday it determined that the China-based hacker group APT17 employed an obfuscation method to encode C2 communications on Microsoft TechNet website’s profile pages and forum threads. Hackers […] More

IBM has added its own services to its Bluemix cloud development tool to help developers to quickly build, manage and deploy cloud applications for Internet of Things, mobile and supply chain environments. The Bluemix API Management service could help facilitate sharing and implementation of large-scale application programming interfaces, while the IBM MobileFirst Platform service is […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has given provisional authorization to 23 commercial cloud service offerings for the hosting of Defense Department data at Impact Level 2, which covers noncontrolled unclassified information. DISA said Monday the offerings comply with the moderate baseline of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). “The granting of these provisional authorizations is an important […] More

UMT360 and Project Hosts have partnered to bring the former’s enterprise portfolio management services — which integrate with Microsoft‘s Project Online and Project Server software – to government agencies via the latter’s FedRAMP-compliant cloud. UMT360 said Wednesday its EPM cloud service works to support business and financial decision-making. “[It’s] even easier than ever for finance, IT and PMO leaders within […] More

The Commerce Department will work with Amazon.com, Google, IBM, Microsoft and the Open Cloud Consortium on a big data project to figure out how to apply environmental data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for efforts to support the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the cooperative research and development agreements Tuesday at the American Meteorological Society forum. “As America’s data agency, we are […] More

Iron Bow Technologies has been recognized in The Channel Company’s annual CRN Tech Elite 250 list of information technology providers. Rene LaVigne, president and CEO of Iron Bow, said Monday the company’s inclusion in the list for the fifth consecutive year validates Iron Bow’s efforts to “maintain technical excellence.” LaVigne added that Iron Bow leverages […] More

Tom Zara serves as global practice lead of corporate citizenship at Interbrand from January 1993 to present, with responsibility in creating and managing brand value. Zara is also the chairman of the Interbrand Inspired Foundation and the Interbrand’s global energy practice lead. He has helped the company build a roster of clients over the past 14 […] More

Allied Market Research has released a report that forecasts a Hadoop-as-a-service market value of $16.1 billion by 2020 and North America to account for the highest value of $11.6 billion among other regions covered in the study. The report projects Amazon Web Services, provider of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce HaaS service, to hold nearly 90 percent of […] More

TechNavio expects the growing need for data backup and archiving to propel a storage-as-a-service market growth of 37.96 percent annually from 2015 through 2019. The report lists Amazon, AT&T, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft as the tier-one industry players, Technavio said in February. TechNavio classifies the market into stand-alone and platform-attached storage, cloud backup and cloud […] More

TechNavio’s new report projects the public sector’s demand for low-cost infrastructure maintenance to drive a 31.0 percent compound annual growth rate of the global information technology-as-a-service market from 2014 through 2019. The report analyzes the vendor landscape that includes tier-one market players such as Amazon Web Services, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Rackspace, Technavio said […] 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

Dell has launched the latest version of the Dell One Identity Cloud Access Manager featuring the company’s Security Analytics Engine, support for the OpenID Connect protocol, Microsoft certification for Office 365 interoperability and social authentication functions. The company said Monday CAM 8.0 works to enable organizations to control access to Web and mobile applications based on contextual information while facilitating […] More