Cybersecurity News

The Department of Defense has authorized a Permuta Technologies-made mission readiness software for uses that require Impact Level 5 of cloud security. Permuta said Thursday its DefenseReady software is developed to ensure real-time enterprise awareness while enabling sensitive data to undergo processing in cloud computing environments. Organizations may use DefenseReady to process data on weapon […] More

IronNet has partnered with Mandiant in an effort to help public and private sector customers boost cyber defense by offering IronDefense and IronDome products to augment the FireEye company’s cyber assessment and response expertise. The collective defense service offering jointly managed by the companies has a software and services combination meant to support security teams’ […] More

Representatives from industry and the U.S. Air Force’s Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapons Systems discussed new guidance for integrating security protections into the systems engineering process at a roundtable event. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, FireEye, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon participated in the discussion about the Department of the Air Force’s Systems Security Engineering Cyber Guidebook, the […] More

Theresa Payton, founder and CEO of cybersecurity company Fortalice Solutions, said that critical infrastructure buildout initiatives should include bringing in top cybersecurity talent to defend against a ransomware attack. “The only way to beat these ransomware syndicates at their own game is to have the best and brightest building the master key to unlock the […] More

A new SolarWinds report shows that 72 percent of public sector technology professionals said they believe their organizations are prepared to mitigate and manage enterprise information technology risks. SolarWinds said Wednesday it surveyed 91 technology practitioners and senior executives from public sector organizations in the U.S. and Canada between March and April for this year’s […] More

The House Oversight and Reform Committee’s government operations subpanel released the 12th iteration of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard and Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, said federal agencies should focus on improving cyber scores in the latest FITARA scorecard. “We should be laser […] More

Deloitte and Palo Alto Networks have partnered to offer integrated end-to-end zero trust and multi-cloud cybersecurity services. The two companies will help enterprise and government customers defend their digital assets through an agile and simple security infrastructure, a joint statement said Wednesday. As part of the agreement, Deloitte’s zero trust framework will be offered with […] More

Carahsoft Technology and Qualys have partnered to offer a cloud platform intended to support a Department of Homeland Security effort to reduce cybersecurity risks across non-cabinet-level federal agencies. The Qualys Cloud Platform is authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and features capabilities for vulnerability assessment, configuration settings management, asset management and application […] More

Eric Trexler, vice president of global governments and critical infrastructure team at Forcepoint, said federal agencies should provide cybersecurity training to employees, particularly information technology professionals responsible for dealing with cyber breaches, in accordance with the current administration’s executive order on cybersecurity. Trexler wrote in an article posted Monday on Federal Times that agencies should […] More

The Department of Energy has updated a guidance tool that allows power companies to assess their processes, methods and practices for securing operational and information technology assets. Version 2 of the Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model seeks to help energy system operators determine how they fare in managing risks to cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other […] More

The program management office of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has automated parts of the process through which agencies may reuse FedRAMP-approved cloud products, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. The program, which aims to standardize the security of cloud products used in the federal government, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are using […] More