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BlackBerry has teamed up with Deloitte to bring an integrated software security offering to the companies’ joint customers across the aerospace, medical and automotive industries. The partnership intends to use the BlackBerry’s Jarvis tool to help original equipment manufacturers analyze code provenance and software products that enter their supply chains, the company said Thursday. Deloitte […] More
An annual report from Microsoft has found that Russia accounted for 58 percent of all cyberattacks the company observed in the past year from nation states and that the percentage of agencies involved in defense, national security or foreign policy that are being targeted by Russian threat actors to gather intelligence rose from 3 percent […] More
Orca Security has received $550 million in its extended round of Series C financing led by Singapore-based investment company Temasek and announced strategic investments from Science Applications International Corp. and Splunk Ventures. Orca said Tuesday it will use the investments to broaden its global presence and expand the delivery of cloud security platforms to government […] More
Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant, said that government-industry coordination at the national and international levels could advance security efforts in the cyber domain, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. He told an audience at the company’s Cyber Defense Summit that security professionals should use advanced and adaptive technologies to prevent sophisticated attacks. Mandia also talked about his move […] More
AgilQuest has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to provide federal customers a cloud-based software product designed to help agencies manage office space and analyze workplace utilization. The company said Monday it pursued FedRAMP authorization for its Forum software-as-a-service offering with the help of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Veterans […] More
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has rolled out a tool for agencies and companies to assess insider threat vulnerabilities. CISA said Tuesday its Insider Risk Mitigation Self-Assessment Tool features a set of questions that organizations can answer to determine security risk posture in the workplace. The questionnaire is designed to also help government and […] More
Bill O’Neill, vice president of public sector at ThycoticCentrify, said protecting U.S. critical infrastructure from cybersecurity threats demands a whole-of-nation effort. O’Neill wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on GCN about the Biden administration’s recent efforts to secure critical infrastructure and one of those is the release of a national security memorandum, which he said […] More
SOS International has received a subcontract from Verizon to provide information technology and cybersecurity support for an enterprise IT-as-a-service environment pilot program at the U.S. Army’s Fort Polk in Louisiana. SOSi said Monday it will establish a security operations center and advanced incident response capability designed to coordinate Army efforts in defeating cyber threats Verizon’s […] More
Amazon Web Services has unveiled a customer responsibility matrix to help contractors accelerate their compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The AWS CMMC CRM tool outlines the CMMC practices that could be inherited by customers from AWS and provides descriptions that could be used in systems security plans and other […] More
CrowdStrike’s Falcon Forensics platform, intended for improved security visibility and automated analysis of attack incidents, is now available for government agencies after receiving authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Falcon Forensics is hosted on GovCloud and is designed to help hasten the response time and remediation of security incidents and deliver in-depth […] More
Zscaler, a cloud-based software as a service security company, was included in the authorized vendor list of the new State Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Wednesday its Zscaler Private Access and Zscaler Internet Access products have achieved “Ready” status under StateRAMP, which is partly modeled after FedRAMP and aims to standardize the […] More
Microsoft plans to invest $20 billion in cybersecurity in the next five years and Brad Smith, the technology company’s president, said a part of that investment will be used to help federal, local and state government agencies and other enterprise customers implement the security technologies they already purchased but have not started using, CNBC reported […] More
