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Mission Secure has completed a Series A financing round as the company aims to expand the reach of its cybersecurity software offering in the defense, transportation and energy markets. The MSi Platform is designed to help customers monitor and secure industrial-grade control systems within protected facilities, the company said Wednesday. Energy Innovation Capital and Chevron Technology Ventures […] More
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mary Legere, a managing director at Accenture Federal Services, has received the Saint Isidore Army Cyber award from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association in recognition of her initiative, leadership, insight and cyber intelligence skills. Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, commander general of the Army Cyber Command, awarded AFCEA’s “Gold […] More
Samuel Visner, director at the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center operated by Mitre, has been selected for an annual list of prominent executives in Washington’s technology industry. Washingtonian recognized Visner on the publication’s 2018 Tech Titan list for managing the center that develops cybersecurity approaches for the private sector, Mitre said Tuesday. “It’s honor […] More
A Northrop Grumman-led team of cybersecurity specialists has won a rapid prototyping event that focused on identifying potentially malicious binaries in a simulated U.S. Cyber Command battlefield. Northrop said Thursday its team developed a malware detection and attribution prototype to send malware signatures back to an offensive team that modified the binaries distributed during The […] More
Employees continue to click on malicious links amid government agencies’ efforts to launch training programs and assessments as part of their cyber defense strategies, Government Technology magazine reported. A study by the Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association shows that 34 percent of cyber breaches are associated with negligence or human error. The report said […] More
Jim Keffer, director of cyber at Lockheed Martin, told Federal News Radio in an interview posted Tuesday how the Defense Department’s cyber strategy is synched up with and embedded into the White House’s National Cyber Strategy. “The national strategy talks more about domestic issues and the DoD strategy is more about the military part, but the […] More
Raytheon has teamed up with two companies to help organizations protect financial, health care and electoral systems and other critical infrastructure from cyber threats through the adoption of artificial intelligence, analytics and isolated browsers. “With global critical infrastructure systems under constant attack, organizations need flexible access to the most advanced technology possible to ensure resiliency,” […] More
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Perspecta’s innovation arm a four-year, $4.7M contract to produce a cybersecurity tool for the agency’s Cyber-Hunting at Scale program. Perspecta Labs is tasked to develop the data-driven WILEE platform designed to detect and characterize cyber attacks in real time to fortify multiple enterprise networks, Perspecta said […] More
Evolver and eVigilant have agreed to merge to form a new company that will deliver managed cyber and physical security services and remote monitoring support to federal government and commercial clients. The combined entity will operate in Reston, Va., as Converged Security Solutions and will be led by Bob Friedenberg as CEO, CSS said Tuesday. “As […] More
Fugue has received a Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award in the infrastructure-as-a-service category. The company said Wednesday it was given the award as recognition for its products that readily determine the existence of anomalous content in a cloud infrastructure, like a policy violation, an unauthorized transaction or a misconfiguration, and address the problem as it happens. “As […] More
Mitre has collaborated with the Food and Drug Administration to create a guide for health care delivery organizations to prepare for and respond to security breaches involving medical technology platforms. The Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook is designed to help HDOs, such as hospitals, produce a framework that would cover device inventory and information […] More
The Justice Department has awarded Peraton a potential $32M contract to provide information technology support services to the FBI’s IT applications and data division. Peraton said Monday it will help FBI ITADD implement IT systems for bureau personnel to retrieve, share, analyze and use data to obtain situational awareness and address threats. The contract has a one-year […] More
