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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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Root9B received contracts worth more than $5.5 million combined during the last quarter of 2017 to provide cybersecurity services to multiple government and commercial customers. The company said Wednesday it received a contract extension to help the Defense Department manage active adversary pursuit missions and training events with the Orion HUNT platform. Root9B will also provide advisory, incident […] More
A coalition of 22 financial, technology and retail trade groups has called on Congress to pass legislation governing consumer data protection and breach notification. On Thursday, the organizations wrote a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee calling for the enactment of national data breach legislation that would protect consumers’ sensitive data. The groups […] More
Amazon, Google and Microsoft have launched efforts to secure their respective cloud services and products amid the discovery of security vulnerabilities in various computer chips, CNBC reported Wednesday. A report from the Register revealed that vulnerabilities affecting various processors could allow hackers to steal information from devices that run those chips, such as computers and data center servers. […] More
A new report by cybersecurity firm Agari has found that federal agencies’ adoption of an email authentication standard – Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance – rose 38 percent from Nov. 18 to Dec. 18, 2017. Agari’s report attributed the increase in DMARC adoption to agencies’ compliance with a new binding operational directive the Department […] More
Oracle is reducing its sales to make more money from its fastest growing sector: cloud. While the exact size of the cuts are uncertain, one report says Oracle is preparing to cut up to two-thirds of its current sales force as soon as this summer, and layoffs are expected to start after the end of this […] More
In the current state of military affairs on and off the cyber battlefield, the heat is on for developing electronic warfare strategies; the demand for specialized cyber teams is high, and the pace of electronic warfare development is slow to build. On the strategic front of fighting code with code, the United States Army expects […] More
Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. public sector services at Cisco, has said agencies should adopt a “proactive†approach to cybersecurity in order to facilitate threat detection and response as well as mitigate the impacts of cyber attacks. Gongaware wrote in a FedTech article published Tuesday that agencies should conduct risk assessments to identify the types of information […] More
Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary will team up with the Metropolitan State University to create a facility that will support cybersecurity professionals’ training and simulation activities at the university’s St. Paul, Minnesota-based campus. The company said Thursday it will offer hardware, software and technical services to help manage the Cyberbit Range-powered training and simulation environment while […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a $3.6 million grant to a team led by the University of Michigan to develop a computer technology that would avoid cyber hacks. U-M said Tuesday the Morpheus project will utilize a new hardware design that works to rapidly transmit and destroy information as well as prevent unauthorized access to […] More
Leidos and SecurityMatters have partnered to add passive monitoring features into a technology platform designed to help operators monitor and secure industrial control systems. SecurityMatters said Thursday it will integrate its SilentDefense continuous threat detection and response platform with Leidos’ Industrial Defender Automation Systems Manager offering. Leidos will resell the integrated product to current and future Industrial Defender ASM customers. […] More
Red Hat has obtained another Common Criteria Certification for its Enterprise Linux 7.1 operating system. BSI, Germany’s federal information security office, issued the certification under the General-Purpose Operating System Protection Profile 3.9 that sets security requirements for OS fielded in public utilities, telecommunications, health care and other critical infrastructure, Red Hat said Wednesday. Paul Smith, […] More
Leidos and Claroty have teamed up to offer an industrial control systems network protection technology equipped with passive monitoring features. Leidos said Wednesday it will integrate the company’s Industrial Defender Automation Systems Manager offering with Claroty’s passive monitoring platform to help customers monitor, detect and respond to infrastructure network security threats. Current and future customers of Industrial […] More
