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  • John Giamatteo: McAfee-Verizon Team Aims for Cross-Device Security Via New Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Giamatteo: McAfee-Verizon Team Aims for Cross-Device Security Via New Platform

    McAfee and Verizon will expand their partnership to offer a new security platform designed to protect multiple Internet-enabled devices from malicious intrusion. The McAfee-powered Internet Security Suite Multi-Device platform is built for residential and business subscribers of Verizon’s FiOS service, the companies said Monday. The product works to keep malware off customers’ laptops, computers, tablets […] More

  • Unisys' Dave Frymier: Cyber Framework Adoption Requires Standards, Incentives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ Dave Frymier: Cyber Framework Adoption Requires Standards, Incentives

    Dave Frymier, chief information security officer at Unisys, believes a national infrastructure cybersecurity framework can be implemented by offering incentives or establishing mandatory standards, eWEEK reported Tuesday. “This framework addresses more of an economic problem more than a technical one,” Frymier told the magazine. Robert Lemos writes the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued […] More

  • SAP, Xamarin Form Enterprise Mobile App Development Team; Bill Clark Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP, Xamarin Form Enterprise Mobile App Development Team; Bill Clark Comments

    SAP America and Xamarin have partnered to help organizations customize enterprise applications for Android, iOS and Windows devices. The alliance’s goal is to encourage developers to build personalized mobile apps to integrate with SAP technology and other back-end data sources, Xamarin said Monday. SAP and Xamarin announced their collaboration at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2014 […] More

  • Sam Glines: SecureInfo-Norse Team Aims to Help Healthcare Orgs Fend Off Cyber Attacks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sam Glines: SecureInfo-Norse Team Aims to Help Healthcare Orgs Fend Off Cyber Attacks

    A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions unit has partnered with Norse to offer a suite of cybersecurity awareness services aimed at helping medical organizations identify fraudulent schemes and protect electronic data. SecureInfo and Norse seek to deliver real-time fraud and threat intelligence data for electronically-protected health information through the alliance, Kratos said Thursday. Sam Glines, […] More

  • Rob Smith: Lockheed Updates Military Communications Platform's Data Processing Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rob Smith: Lockheed Updates Military Communications Platform’s Data Processing Tool

    Lockheed Martin has updated the processor of its mobile communications platform offering that works to help military users transmit data across multiple networks. The new version of Lockheed’s Whetstone system is built to help soldiers download, process and send terabytes of information when operating in a remote location, Lockheed said Wednesday. Rob Smith, Lockheed IS&GS […] More

  • Toshiba Launches Mobile, Cloud Offerings for Healthcare Providers; Wesley Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Toshiba Launches Mobile, Cloud Offerings for Healthcare Providers; Wesley Smith Comments

    Toshiba has unveiled a range of new mobile computers, displays and cloud computing service offerings for healthcare organizations. The Encore and Excite line of tablets are designed to run on both Windows 8 and Android operating systems and seek to help users access data from a picture archiving and communication system, Toshiba said Wednesday. Toshiba […] More

  • Intel, Microsoft Move to Expand Data Analytics Portfolios - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel, Microsoft Move to Expand Data Analytics Portfolios

    Intel and Microsoft have introduced new analytics and big data management products that were built around the companies’ existing technology offerings, GCN reported Thursday. The website reports Intel developed a software suite for government and commercial organizations to analyze, import and manage volumes of datasets in real time. Intel Data Platform is based on the […] More

  • LexisNexis, UK Agency Partner for Legislative Data Analysis Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LexisNexis, UK Agency Partner for Legislative Data Analysis Project

    LexisNexis and the U.K. government’s archival organization will collaborate to develop tools and methodologies for maintaining, analyzing and interpreting volumes of legislative articles, Legal Futures reported Friday. The Big Data for Law project’s goal to give U.K. professionals access to computing systems and services when undertaking legal research work, according to the article. Legal Futures […] More

  • Gerald Cohen: Avatar Taps Information Builders' Business Intell, Data Tools for Healthcare Surveys - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gerald Cohen: Avatar Taps Information Builders’ Business Intell, Data Tools for Healthcare Surveys

    Information Builders has provided Avatar Solutions a set of business intelligence and data integrity tools in an effort to help Avatar organize customer satisfaction surveys for healthcare organizations. Avatar deployed Information Builders’ technologies to help clients measure employee performance or patient perception of medical services, Information Builders said Tuesday. Gerald Cohen, Information Builders president and […] More

  • Cobham, Addvalue Technologies to Build Inmarsat Satcom Terminals; Frank Coles Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham, Addvalue Technologies to Build Inmarsat Satcom Terminals; Frank Coles Comments

    Inmarsat has tapped Cobham SATCOM and Addvalue Technologies to manufacture terminals for an Inmarsat satellite communications service targeted toward maritime leisure and fishing enthusiasts. The Fleet One service offering is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2014 and is built to provide data and voice connectivity among daytime boaters, fishermen and leisure mariners, […] More

  • MobileIron Selected by GSA as a Federal Mobility Platform Supplier; Bob Tinker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MobileIron Selected by GSA as a Federal Mobility Platform Supplier; Bob Tinker Comments

    MobileIron has been named a mobile device and application management tools supplier to federal customers under a mobility initiative run by the General Services Administration. The company has served as a subcontractor to Digital Management Inc. for the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s MDM/MAS project, MobileIron said Tuesday. The GSA’s Managed Mobility Program is designed to […] More

  • Manish Gupta: New FireEye Network Incident Mgmt Tool Built to Cut Response Time - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Manish Gupta: New FireEye Network Incident Mgmt Tool Built to Cut Response Time

    FireEye has launched a new cybersecurity product that is built to help users detect threats to computer networks and respond to security incidents in a short period of time. The Endpoint Threat Prevention suite is designed for use with FireEye’s security platform and features IT tools that FireEye acquired through its $1 billion acquisition of Mandiant, […] More