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  • UMD System to Help MITRE Run Cyber R&D Support Hub; Alfred Grasso Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UMD System to Help MITRE Run Cyber R&D Support Hub; Alfred Grasso Comments

    MITRE will team up with the University System of Maryland to operate a federally-funded research-and-development center in Rockville, Maryland that will carry out R&D, engineering and technical services in the cybersecurity field. UMD campuses in College Park and Baltimore County will help MITRE work with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in an effort to help promote public-private partnerships, MITRE said Friday. The […] More

  • MITRE's Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE’s Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book

    Carson Zimmerman, principal cybersecurity engineer at MITRE Corp., has outlined strategies to bolster computer network defense across the government, industry, academia and nonprofit sector in his new book. The book, entitled Ten Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, contains best practices based on lessons learned from MITRE’s previous projects with U.S. military and civilian clients, MITRE said Wednesday. Zimmerman […] More

  • BlackBerry's Jeffrey Ait: Incentive Policies Could Help Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry’s Jeffrey Ait: Incentive Policies Could Help Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage

    The need for stronger cyber protection has reached a “critical juncture” and lawmakers should consider introducing measures to close the information technology skills shortage, BlackBerry‘s Jeffrey Ait writes in an opinion piece for Nextgov. Ait, BlackBerry vice president and head of its U.S. public sector business, says two recent studies indicated the current government IT […] More

  • Frank Dickson: Managed Security Services Customers Value Data Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frank Dickson: Managed Security Services Customers Value Data Integration

    The managed security services market will become a $3.25 billion industry by 2018, up from $1.81 billion in 2013, a new research report from Frost & Sullivan says. The market analyst forecast that evolving complexities of securing an enterprise’s information technology assets will encourage the growth, led by the segment that deals with research, emerging threat intelligence, detection and remediation services. Other market forces that […] More

  • BAE, U.K. Banking Group to Launch Cybersecurity Alert Service in 2015; Anthony Browne Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, U.K. Banking Group to Launch Cybersecurity Alert Service in 2015; Anthony Browne Comments

    BAE Systems and the British Bankers’ Association have partnered to create an early warning system intended to alert financial services companies about potential cyber threats in an effort to protect customer data. The Financial Crime Alerts Service portal is built to disseminate intelligence from a dozen U.K. government and law enforcement organizations to banking personnel […] More

  • Sonny Kakar: Sevatec to Lead NOAA IT System Security Contract Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sonny Kakar: Sevatec to Lead NOAA IT System Security Contract Team

    Sevatec has won a contract of an undisclosed value to help two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration organizations to continuously monitor NOAA’s information technology systems. The company said Tuesday it will support the operations of the agency’s Cyber Security Center and Enterprise Security Oversight Center. “As global climate change and the threat of natural disasters […] More

  • Skip Boyce: Boeing to Build On Singapore Presence With Cyber Analytics Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Skip Boyce: Boeing to Build On Singapore Presence With Cyber Analytics Hub

    Boeing will open a cyber analytics center in Singapore as the company aims to help its clients in the Asia-Pacific region fulfill cybersecurity requirements. The company will provide training and equipment to cybersecurity professionals at the facility and employ cyber personnel to work at the center, Boeing said Monday. “We are taking our Singapore partnership to a new level with this […] More

  • EMC's Paul Austin: Enterprise, Cloud Views of Applications Critical for Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMC’s Paul Austin: Enterprise, Cloud Views of Applications Critical for Agencies

    Paul Austin, chief technology officer of EMC’s federal division, believes it is critical for agencies to view applications across their enterprise and cloud platforms for resiliency, Federal Times reported Sept. 15. He said agencies must shift their focus on the applications and their connections to business processes, Rutrell Yasin reports. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has deployed the cloud-based RSA Archer portal to […] More

  • Scott Kaine: Cyveillance Threat Intell Platform to Focus on Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Kaine: Cyveillance Threat Intell Platform to Focus on Analysis

    A QinetiQ subsidiary has launched a new cloud-based platform that aims to help security and risk professionals perform their own analyses of available threat intelligence using various investigative tools and data sources. Cyveillance‘s Cyber Threat Center platform also works to use intelligence reports, web search and social media monitoring to collect threat data that can be “distilled” to generate actionable security […] More

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  • Amit Yoran: RSA's New Integrated Platform Built for Compliance, Security Needs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amit Yoran: RSA’s New Integrated Platform Built for Compliance, Security Needs

    RSA, the security division of EMC, has launched the RSA Advanced Security Operations Center Solution to combinee several technologies that are designed to help enterprises detect emerging threats and mitigate network breaches. EMC said Tuesday that the suite integrates RSA Security Analytics, RSA ECAT, RSA Archer Security Operations Management and RSA Advanced Cyber Defense Practice training and services. The platform works […] More

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  • Force 3's Greg Kushto: Follow Network Security Basics for Wider Threat Coverage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Force 3’s Greg Kushto: Follow Network Security Basics for Wider Threat Coverage

    Federal agencies could be putting their networks at risk by focusing too many of their resources on specific types of cyber threats, Greg Kushto of Force 3 says. Kushto, director of Force 3’s security practice, wrote in a guest post for Nextgov published Tuesday that agencies should build an IT infrastructure that is secure from the majority of threats. To ensure this, he says that federal IT […] More

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  • RSA Provides Risk Visualization Tool for Govt-Wide CDM Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RSA Provides Risk Visualization Tool for Govt-Wide CDM Program

    RSA has supplied the Department of Homeland Security with an enterprise-grade platform meant to provide user visibility into potential threats to federal information technology systems, GCN reported Wednesday. William Jackson writes that DHS chose RSA’s Archer visualization tool to manage governance, risk and compliance activities under the government-wide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation initiative. Archer will […] More