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Todd Helfrich, director of the federal business at ThreatStream has created a checklist of information technology measures he believes the U.S. government agencies should include in their cybersecurity plans. Helfrich wrote in a piece published Friday on GCN that agencies need to implement cyber threat intelligence tools to help them identify and automate responses to […] More
The New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell has signed an agreement with the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center in an effort to help protect New Jersey-based banks from potential cyber attacks. NJCCIC and FS-ISAC will use a platform dubbed Soltra Edge to facilitate exchanges of threat intelligence between their two security operations facilities […] More
FireEye has partnered with the National Fusion Center Association to launch a threat intelligence sharing initiative that will work to provide cyber training and technology to state governments. The company said Thursday the initiative will support state intelligence agencies during cyber crises by sharing actionable intelligence on cyber threats and training cyber analysts. “When you can rely on […] More
Research and Markets has published a report that sets a 14.17 percent compound annual growth rate for the global industrial cybersecurity market from 2014 to 2019. The research firm said Wednesday manufacturing and power generation companies invest in information technology security tools to protect their assets from keyloggers, adware, crimeware and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Smart […] More
ThreatConnect has unveiled a new tool designed to help companies develop, share and host applications intended for threat intelligence data gathering. The company said Wednesday it deployed the TC Exchange and toolkit for software development as part of its Threat Intelligence Platform. TC Exchange aims to allow users to make changes to applications and exchange […] More
FireEye security professionals have found that the China-based APT3 persistent threat group has used an unpatched Adobe Flash Player zero-day bug to launch a spear phishing campaign against multiple U.S. industries, FCW reported Monday. Mark Rockwell writes FireEye identified aerospace, defense, construction, engineering, transportation, high-technology and telecommunication companies as the targets in APT3’s Operation Clandestine […] More
Seventy-seven percent of more than 24,000 responding consumers worldwide told an Accenture-commissioned survey that they want to try methods other than the username/password authentication mechanism to access their online accounts. Accenture said Monday it conducted the online poll in October and November 2014 and asked the participants from 24 countries about their views on digital […] More
Tim Meehan, CenturyLink’s government senior vice president and general manager, has said more small businesses are starting to adopt a government-backed cyber surveillance tool following the Office of Personnel Management’s data breach, Nextgov reported Friday. Aliya Sternstein writes CenturyLink has observed an increase in the number of companies that enter into an agreement with the […] More
Raytheon‘s team is one of seven teams that will compete in the final round of a $2 million U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-hosted program to build an automated system against cybersecurity threats. DARPA launched the Cyber Grand Challenge for academic and industry consortia to produce cyber reasoning platforms that can identify and repair computer […] More
Novetta has unveiled a new version of its network-traffic analytics software Novetta Cyber Analytics, which features new functions for prebuilt queries, asynchronous decoding and query sharing. The company said Thursday Novetta Cyber Analytics version 4.4 works to provide near-real-time visibility into the enterprise network. “As a whole, the cybersecurity industry continues to focus on automating security analysis,” said […] More
Fortinet and NTT Com Security have forged a partnership to combine their platforms in an effort to help enterprises protect their data centers and other information technology infrastructures from network threats. Both companies will work to provide consulting services for commercial firms on various areas, such as risk reduction, incident management and IT implementation, Fortinet said Monday. Fortinet […] More
A new Visiongain report released by Reportbuyer indicates that the global aviation cybersecurity market will reach a value of $1.8 billion this year as the sector works to protect its information and computer technologies. “Disruption of this sector would invariably have a profound effect on the global economy and more widespread social ramifications, making it crucial […] More
