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Northrop Grumman has pledged to back cybersecurity technology research projects of British universities through a public-private initiative in the U.K. British government officials Ed Vaizey and Robert Hannigan introduced the national CyberInvest program during a ceremony held at Park Plaza Hotel in London, Northrop said Monday. “The U.K. is a thriving centre for cutting-edge research so […] More
Ashok Sankar, director of cybersecurity at Raytheon-Websense, has recommended organizations rethink their security strategies and refocus on resilience amid a changing threat environment, ComputerWeekly.com reported Thursday. Warwick Ashford writes that Sankar told an audience at the 2015 RSA Conference in the United Arab Emirates that security must adapt as companies adopt technologies such as mobile and cloud. “As technology innovations promise […] More
Forty-seven percent of public and private sector information technology professionals who responded to an IID-sponsored survey said their organizations have experienced a material security breach in the past year. The study, conducted by Ponemon Institute, also found that 65 percent of respondents believe their companies or agencies could have avoided the cybersecurity breaches through sharing […] More
The U.S. Army has announced plans to hold a contest for industry participants to build software-based technology that the military service can use to visualize cyber risks. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 27, the Army said it aims to explore the technical feasibility of implementing a cyber situational awareness tool for echelon commands through its planned Cyber […] More
HRL Laboratories and the University of Michigan have received contracts from the Department of Homeland Security respectively worth $2.5 million and $1.2 million to develop cybersecurity tools for government- and privately-owned vehicles. The HRL team led by David Payton will develop a physical disturbance detection system in order to raise an early warning signal when an […] More
Ascolta, a subsidiary of ViON Corp., has launched to offer cybersecurity products and services as part of efforts to address threats to the government and private sector. Steven Picot, president of Ascolta, said Wednesday the company aims to go beyond the traditional cybersecurity approach “by applying emerging cyber readiness technology, machine analytics and cross-organization collaboration […] More
A new survey from Vormetric says 89 percent of Americans are unaware of the serious threat from the theft of their medical data in the event of a data breach. The company said Thursday many of the respondents were more concerned about other information and did not put medical data among their top three concerns. Wakefield Research conducted the […] More
Webster Mudge, senior director for technology solutions at Cloudera, has recommended a series of steps for government agencies to mitigate the risk of cyber attacks and prevent data theft. Mudge wrote in an opinion piece for Federal News Radio published Monday that agencies must adopt a risk management framework to align people and resources needed for data protection […] More
A survey Raytheon and the National Cyber Security Alliance jointly commissioned found that the gap between young adult men and women interested in cybersecurity careers has increased over the past year. Raytheon said Monday the current cyber gender gap is five times more than in 2014 and presents a challenge to efforts that seek to build […] More
IronNet Cybersecurity has obtained $32.5 million in a Trident Capital Cybersecurity-led funding round to further develop a platform designed to protect enterprises’ network infrastructures from potential cyber threats. IronNet’s cyber defense tool works to detect anomalous network patterns through the use of petabyte-scale analytics and behavioral models, IronNet said Sunday. Ted Schlein, general partner at […] More
A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts that the global market for advanced persistent threat protection systems will climb in value from $3.9 billion this year to $8.7 billion in 2020. The company said Oct. 14 the 17-percent compound annual growth rate over the five-year forecast period is due to increased demand for APT protection across several verticals amid a changing threat […] More
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has introduced a cybersecurity project that aims to identify methods to integrate commercial privacy protection technology and brokered identity management service offerings. NIST said Thursday many organizations now allow customers to manage their online accounts through the use of third-party credentials and the agency believes the approach could drive user tracking […] More
