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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
ExecutiveBiz provides the latest coverage about cybersecurity in government. Read about the latest cybersecurity regulations, developments, services from top providers and thought leaders.
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a potential three-year, $6.2 million contract to help the U.S. Marine Corps manage the cybersecurity of the service branch’s facility-related control systems. The company said Thursday it will provide functional and technical programmatic support needed to secure energy, data, buildings, fire control and traffic cameras at USMC installations. CTC has partnered with Risk […] More
Aubrey Merchant-Dest, federal chief technical officer at software company Symantec, wrote in an opinion piece published Thursday on Fifth Domain that approaching cybersecurity from a client-server perspective is no longer tenable due to the increasing civilian and military use of cloud services and mobile technologies. In the client-server model, cybersecurity is determined by a single defense perimeter […] More
A report by the departments of Homeland Security and Commerce calls for both private and public sectors to build up the cybersecurity workforce through “hands-on, experiential and work-based learning approaches†such as internships and apprenticeships. DHS and the Commerce Department prepared the report in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to strengthen […] More
PwC has established a facility in Israel that will support the protection of critical infrastructures, industrial control systems and operations technologies of worldwide governments and multi-national companies in the industrial sector. The Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is intended to provide a comprehensive cybersecurity framework that will cover approaches for the digital protection of national critical infrastructures, […] More
John Kendall, border and national security program director at Unisys‘ global public sector business, has stressed the need for security safeguards when employing artificial intelligence and machine learning for border protection. In an article published Friday on Nextgov, Kendall espoused the benefits of microsegmentation, multifactor authentication, resilience and human analysis for the protection of intelligence […] More
Raytheon Chairman and CEO Thomas Kennedy has said he believes maintaining data integrity should be part of an organization’s strategy to secure information technology assets from cyber threats. He wrote in an article published Tuesday on LinkedIn that data integrity protections can help companies defend against insider threats and comply with financial reporting standards under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. […] More
Atos‘s North American arm has signed a multiyear, $120 million agreement to provide cybersecurity services to the Virginia Information Technology Agency. The company said Thursday it will provide a technology platform intended to help VITA detect threats, manage vulnerabilities, secure information and endpoints and manage security events. VITA will receive the services through Atos’ Prescriptive Security model […] More
Dell Technologies’ Virtustream business has added a software-as-a-service option to a platform that works to provide compliance monitoring and risk management support to government agencies and commercial users. The addition of the SaaS option to Virtustream Viewtrust seeks to provide clients with insights into their compliance and risk posture in both cloud and physical environments, Virtustream said Tuesday. Virtustream […] More
Iron Mountain has unveiled a data management platform that works to protect and recover critical information in the event of a cyber attack. The company said Wednesday its Iron Cloud Critical Protection and Recovery offering works to help organizations mitigate damage related to business disruption caused by cyber incidents through isolation of critical digital information […] More
Northrop Grumman has opened a cyber center on the Port San Antonio campus in Texas as part of efforts to help government customers safeguard critical systems and address cybersecurity challenges. The company said Wednesday its 7,700-square-foot center at 903 Billy Mitchell Blvd. features a cyber integration laboratory, production facilities, warehouse space and a user experience platform designed to increase […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office has issued a request of information on cybersecurity tools and methods for the Defense Department’s national security space systems and low-Earth orbit satellite networks. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says DARPA seeks new platforms to secure space information systems built to collect, store, process and transmit national security […] More
“There is no one silver bullet that’s going to solve this problem,†said Adm. Michael Rogers, director of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, in his opening remarks at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2018 Cybersecurity Summit held Tuesday. “There is no technology that’s going to fix all this for us, so it’s about a lot […] More
