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ForeScout has been selected to help secure the country’s energy sector infrastructure. Ryan Brichant, ForeScout vice president and chief technology officer for critical infrastructure and operational technology security, said Wednesday that his company and seven other firms have been chosen to perform work under the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence’s Energy Sector Asset Management Project. […] More
Tom Burt, vice president for security and trust at Microsoft, has said the company identified and helped obstruct hacking attempts early this year on three candidates who are running for congressional seats in the 2018 midterm elections, Politico reported Thursday. “Earlier this year, we did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as […] More
Mitre has launched an initiative to help eight companies test and improve their cybersecurity platforms, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. The research nonprofit organization will work with Carbon Black, CounterTack, CrowdStrike, Cylance, Endgame, Microsoft, RSA and SentinelOne to assess their endpoint security tools and other cyber offerings. Mitre will use its Adversarial Tactics, Techniques […] More
Gus Hunt, cybersecurity strategy lead at Accenture’s federal services business, has said adopting data-centric security approach could help agencies protect data, maintain control of networks and achieve cyber resilience. Hunt wrote in a Nextgov piece posted Monday that agencies should develop a framework for data tagging and marking in order to facilitate the decision-making process when it […] More
Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, on Tuesday conducted a cybersecurity discussion with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and Kathleen Murphy, a Virginia state delegate. The University of Virginia’s six-member student team that won in a Raytheon-sponsored national cyber contest also took part in the discussion at the company’s Northern Virginia campus, […] More
Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services business, told Shephard Media in an interview published Monday that the company’s presentation at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow will cover vulnerability assessment. “Every weapon system brings a new computer that represents a cyber vulnerability,” Probert said. He explained that Raytheon’s […] More
Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with Guardtime Federal to incorporate cyber and data integrity capabilities into the former’s aircraft systems and processes in an effort to address data manipulation threats. Lockheed said Monday the integration work with Guardtime Federal aims to deliver a digital linked data distribution system and speed up the deployment of […] More
The U.S. Army has awarded Root9B a potential two-year contract to provide onsite cybersecurity training at Fort Gordon in Georgia. R9B said Monday it will help the service branch teach students to conduct defensive and offensive cyber operations via three 170A Warrant Officer Advanced Course classes. Each instruction period can last for up to seven weeks. The WOAC […] More
The Department of Homeland Security has selected Cyber 20/20 to develop a platform for financial services organizations to secure networks from malicious threats. DHS said Monday its science and technology directorate awarded $200,000 for the Newark, Del.-based technology startup to demonstrate a proof-of-concept prototype of the company’s proposed Trained Using Runtime Analysis from Cuckoo Outputs system. TURACO is designed […] More
The U.S. Air Force is soliciting proposals to build an integrated operations platform for the U.S. Cyber Command through the General Services Administration‘s Alliant contract vehicle, Fifth Domain reported Friday. Defense Department officials have said that Cybercom’s future Unified Platform will work to support cyber defense, planning command-and-control and situational awareness efforts. USAF issued a solicitation […] More
Hortonworks and PSSC Labs have teamed up to develop a high-performance computing system for use in conjunction with Hortonworks Cybersecurity Platform. PSSC’s CyberRax Cybersecurity Appliance is a turnkey platform that works to deliver cyber data with alert summaries, real-time processing and high-speed ingestion capabilities to users and supports 240 processor cores and 150 terabytes of data, the […] More
The state of Georgia is scheduled to open on July 10Â the first of two buildings within a $100 million cyber facility at Augusta University’s Riverfront Campus. Georgia Cyber Center is built to facilitate collaboration among industry, academia, the U.S. Army, law enforcement and federal and state governments on cybersecurity research and workforce development efforts, the […] More
