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Growing awareness from U.K. enterprises on digital criminality could increase demand for methods to repel cyber attacks, according to Martin Sutherland, managing director for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. Ninety percent of U.K. firms responding to a BAE survey believe that attacks will increase over the next two years, the company said Monday. “We’re starting to […] More
Verizon and RSA have reached an agreement for Verizon Enterprise Solutions to help EMC Corp. subsidiary run its managed security partner program. Verizon’s clients will have access to new cyber defense technologies such as big data security analytics, critical incident response and risk management under the partnership, Verizon said Monday. Eddie Schwartz, vice president of global […] More
IBM Corp. and CrowdStrike Inc. have jointly developed a managed security service aimed at helping customers to combat cyber threats. The cyber threat intelligence service is intended to combine intelligence, technologies, analysts and services from both companies so that organizations can assess their security posture, CrowdStrike said Monday. Kris Lovejoy, general manager of IBM security […] More
Dave Frymier, chief information security officer at Unisys, believes a national infrastructure cybersecurity framework can be implemented by offering incentives or establishing mandatory standards, eWEEK reported Tuesday. “This framework addresses more of an economic problem more than a technical one,” Frymier told the magazine. Robert Lemos writes the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued […] More
Deloitte has introduced a new idea for cyber risk management that aims to help organizations perform business transactions in a secure environment. The Secure.Vigilant.Resilient. concept recommends that enterprises focus on identifying cyber threats and building up response methods in order to mitigate attacks, Deloitte said Thursday. Ed Powers, national managing principal for Deloitte’s Cyber Risk […] More
Computer Sciences Corp. plans to establish a technology center at a Bossier, La.-based cyber research facility, where the company intends to make available 800 jobs in four years. CSC selected the 3,000-acre National Cyber Research Park being developed by the Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City for its planned 116,000-square-foot technology hub under a public-private […] More
IBMÂ has launched a security diagnostics technology offering for enterprises to protect data and networks from external and internal threats. The company intends for security teams within organizations to deploy the Security QRadar Incident Forensics software to reconstruct the activities of cyber criminals for investigation, IBM said Tuesday. Brendan Hannigan, general manager of IBM Security Systems, […] More
IBM will collaborate with George Mason University to research cybersecurity developments in the electric power industry to develop plans for policy and grid management part of IBM’s Shared University Research Award program. GMU said Wednesday professors specializing in management, engineering, homeland security and public policy will look into cyber matters related to smart grids and report […] More
Telos has moved to expand its security risk assessment offering for businesses by launching a new continuous monitoring technology. Xacta Continuum is developed to compare security product results across an enterprise and lay out information for security and risk management functions, Telos said Tuesday. Hugh Barrett, Telos vice president of technical services, said the technology is […] More
SafeNet Inc. has introduced a new data breach directory website for security departments to categorize an attack’s severity level and compare the resulting analyses with other breach incidents. The SafeNet Breach Level Index portal is developed to serve as a database of various breach disclosures and classifications based on numerical scoring of an organization’s breach […] More
FireEye has launched a new cybersecurity product that is built to help users detect threats to computer networks and respond to security incidents in a short period of time. The Endpoint Threat Prevention suite is designed for use with FireEye’s security platform and features IT tools that FireEye acquired through its $1 billion acquisition of Mandiant, […] More
Microsoft will collaborate with financial technology provider FIS, Europol and the Organization of American States to carry out cooperative efforts against potential cyber attacks. The allies seek to assist law enforcement and private industry in dismantling online hacker groups and investigating botnets and malware threats, Microsoft said Wednesday. Microsoft executives signed the three partnership agreements […] More
