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  • Scott Fuselier: General Dynamics Fidelis-CrowdStrike Team to Offer Clients Threat Intell - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Fuselier: General Dynamics Fidelis-CrowdStrike Team to Offer Clients Threat Intell

    General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions will collaborate with CrowdStrike to offer Fidelis XPS customers access to threat intelligence that support measures to remediate, prevent, detect and attribute cyber attacks. CrowdStrike Intelligence Exchange will automatically send customers information on threat actors, such as behavioral patterns and common targets, for application onto historical and current network traffic, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “We […] More

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  • Verizon's Paul Pratley: Financial Services Should Base Cyber Defenses on Attack Patterns - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Paul Pratley: Financial Services Should Base Cyber Defenses on Attack Patterns

    Paul Pratley, a global investigations manager with Verizon‘s RISK team, urges financial services organizations to implement cyber defenses against threats such as web application attacks, denial of service and skimming. Pratley said Wednesday the above three emerged as the top threats to the finance and insurance industry in Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, covering 75 percent of all security […] More

  • Verizon’s Carlos Arcila: Cyber Strategy Needed for Energy Grids - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Carlos Arcila: Cyber Strategy Needed for Energy Grids

    Carlos Arcila, external communications manager for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has recommended several ways to safeguarding the country’s energy infrastructure from cyber attacks. He noted on the Verizon blog Tuesday that organizations that operate and monitor U.S. energy and utility systems need cybersecurity framework especially now that the grid has become modernized and connected. “As new technologies […] More

  • Microsoft, Akamai to Back Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Akamai to Back Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator

    Microsoft and Akamai Technologies will work with venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners to construct an accelerator in Israel that will focus on helping startup cybersecurity firms in the country. Participants will receive professional sessions and active mentoring from JVP, who will invest in $1 million in one of the cybersecurity startups at the program’s end, Microsoft said Tuesday. “Tech […] More

  • L-3 to Host Cloud-Based Cyber Training, Certification Program; Les Rose Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 to Host Cloud-Based Cyber Training, Certification Program; Les Rose Comments

    L-3 Communications will host an international cybersecurity training and certification program on a company-operated, private cloud computing environment environment that will include introductory cyber defense practices, strategies and plans. The company’s national security solutions business will work with the Cyber Security Forum Initiative to carry out the program, L-3 said Tuesday. Paul de Souza, president […] More

  • Craig Albert: Bechtel to Fund Cyber Defense Training Initiative at 2 Nat'l Labs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Craig Albert: Bechtel to Fund Cyber Defense Training Initiative at 2 Nat’l Labs

    Bechtel has launched a recruitment and training program to help early-career information technology professionals learn to secure cyber infrastructures. The company said Monday that it will collaborate with the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories to support multi-year employment for young cyber experts. “When you combine the resources and expertise of our three organizations […] More

  • General Dynamics Fidelis Joins Microsoft's Active Protections Program; Peter George Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Fidelis Joins Microsoft’s Active Protections Program; Peter George Comments

    General Dynamics‘ Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions business has entered into Microsoft‘s Active Protections Program to get information on emerging cyber threats ahead of Microsoft’s monthly security bulletins to provide up-to-date protection to Fidelis XPS customers. Fidelis said Monday that joining the Microsoft program is intended to bolster mitigation of cyber attacks and system vulnerabilities during the entire threat life cycle. […] More

  • Verizon Launches Web Application Firewall on Cloud; Andy Bokor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Launches Web Application Firewall on Cloud; Andy Bokor Comments

    Verizon‘s Digital Media Services arm is launching a beta version of its Web application firewall that is designed to protect Web applications and websites from cyber threats using rule sets deployed to the cloud. The company said Wednesday that it is deploying Verizon WAF to the cloud instead of on-premise in order to help users navigate command-and-control tools for access, […] More

  • McKinsey Report: Sustained C-Level Support Key to Cyber Policy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McKinsey Report: Sustained C-Level Support Key to Cyber Policy

    C-level executives should take a more proactive role not only in drafting but also in implementing and following through with their enterprise’s cybersecurity policy, McKinsey & Company said in an Insights article published this month. The authors of the report said, however, that while most senior leaders are aware of the implications of a cyber attack, overcoming […] More

  • Samuel Visner: CSC Adds New Cloud-Based Cyber Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Samuel Visner: CSC Adds New Cloud-Based Cyber Services

    Computer Sciences Corp. will offer three new services to enterprise and public sector customers as part of the company’s work to expand its cloud cybersecurity portfolio, CSC said Tuesday. CSC’s Cloud Cybersecurity Services program works to offer tools from vendors in an effort to help customers migrate into cloud environments and the company will help manage […] More

  • Symantec Initiates Program to Address Cybersecurity Workforce Gap - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec Initiates Program to Address Cybersecurity Workforce Gap

    Symantec has launched its Cyber Career Connection (SC3) program that aims to address the workforce gap in cybersecurity careers worldwide and to find new opportunities for adolescents and young adults not necessarily college-bound, the company said Tuesday. SC3 was announced as a Commitment to Action at the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative America event held Tuesday by Hillary […] More

  • Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons-BHEF Team Aims to Help DC Region Build Cyber Workforce - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons-BHEF Team Aims to Help DC Region Build Cyber Workforce

    Parsons is collaborating with the Business-Higher Education Forum to create a Greater Washington Cyber Network of cybersecurity professionals from academia, industry and government from Maryland, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. The company said Friday the network will be an expansion of the BHEF Undergraduate Cybersecurity Network of the University System of Maryland. The expanded network aimsto bring more opportunities for business disciplines and policies supporting […] More