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Booz Allen Hamilton has received a cyber incident response certification from the National Security Agency for the firm’s work to provide cyber response aid to national security systems customers. The firm went through 21 reviews to demonstrate the incident response processes of its CyberReady Incident Response technologies for the NSA’s National Security Cyber Assistance Program CIRA accreditation, Booz […] More
Finmeccanica’s Selex ES business unit has opened a cyber defense center in central Italy in a move to expand its cybersecurity offerings for government and commercial clients, Defense News reported Sunday. Tom Kington writes Selex ES managers are expecting the cyber monitoring center to help increase Finmeccanica’s annual cyber revenue by 12-13 percent. Selex ES […] More
(INTEL)—The use and application of Big Data systems to overcome those obstacles deemed previously insurmountable was a breaking-through for the business world, now moving forward with companies like Intel and their grafting of Big Data to a panoply of specific problems to work at solving global challenges effective to all humankind. Intel currently has two […] More
A laboratory run by Lockheed Martin‘s Sandia subsidiary is seeking partners for research and development into ephemeral biometrics for cyber identity management and insider threat monitoring functions. Sandia National Laboratories is looking to boost cyber identity authentication and develop new tools to address insider threats through cooperative research and development agreements or work for others agreements, the lab said […] More
General Electric has purchased Canadian company Wurldtech for an undisclosed amount in an effort to help better protect operation technology networks, ETF Daily News reported today. Tom Sandford writes that the move has GE, a technology development company usually known for its appliances and jet engines, moving into the realm of cyberattack protection. “The world […] More
(INFORMATIONWEEK)–“The leading Hadoop platform is now the most secure.” Commercial Hadoop vendor Cloudera announced Tuesday that they had successfully purchased big data security firm Gazzang, stepping up their game to offer their customers encryption as well as security solutions to issues of storing, processing and analyzing of data. VP of products Charles Zedlewski says that […] More
Google released a new encryption tool that the company built to help users secure their internet privacy, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Nicole Perlroth writes that the tool, dubbed End-to-End, works to help email users encrypt messages they send out until they reach their intended recipient and are decrypted. Both users must use End-to-End […] More
Lockheed Martin has been certified by the National Security Agency to offer incident management services designed to help government agencies respond to attacks at the network layer. The company received the accreditation from NSA’s information assurance directorate through the agency-run Cyber Incident Response Assistance program, Lockheed said Tuesday. “Our intelligence driven defense approach to securing […] More
Microsoft has opened a cybersecurity accelerator hub in Israel in a move to mentor startup businesses in the country, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Mohana Ravindranath writes Microsoft Ventures has partnered with Jerusalem Venture Partners to establish the new cybersecurity program at Microsoft’s center in Herzeliya, Israel. Microsoft will provide mentorship and software access to between […] More
A new McKinsey & Co. study has highlighted the potential economic risks posed by a growing number of cyberattacks amid companies with cybersecurity capabilities that are still in the emergent stage. Poll authors Tucker Bailey, Andrea Del Miglio and Wolf Richter, who conducted the study in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, found that a majority […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a five-year, $14 million contract to continue its operation and sustainment support for cyber operation simulations at the National Cyber Range, Nextgov reported Friday. Aliya Sternstein writes Lockheed first joined the program in 2009 and signed an $80 million contract in 2012 to operate the range. The U.S. Army is allocating $5.6 million […] More
NATO has added a FireEye-built threat prevention tool to the alliance’s Information Assurance Product Catalogue and certified the platform for use by member nations and partner organizations. The NIAPC vets information assurance products and packages for NATO Systems Operations Centers through three levels of assessment that determine which information classification those products can secure, FireEye […] More
