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Jennifer Napper, group vice president for defense and intelligence group at Unisys, has said the U.S. Army Cyber Command should adopt software-defined networks as the country counters ground conflicts in the Middle East and faces dwindling resources, PCMag reported Wednesday. Sophia Stuart writes Napper made the remarks at TechNet Augusta conference in Georgia when asked […] More
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication has detected cyber theft attempts against its member banks that resulted in some successful attacks, Reuters reported Wednesday. Jim Finkle writes a SWIFT letter to clients stated the hacking attempts have been discovered since June – after SWIFT gave customers its latest update on cyber attacks. “Customers’ environments have been compromised, and subsequent attempts (were) made to send […] More
There has been no shortage of research materials over the past year that point to a fear among government and private industry leaders that the U.S. does not have the needed numbers or proper skillsets in its cybersecurity workforce and could feel some consequences as a result. One survey from Raytheon and the National Cyber Security Alliance said almost […] More
Two Imperva SecureSphere firewalls will be available to federal agencies through the Department of Homeland Security‘s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Tools/Continuous Monitoring as a Service blanket purchase agreement. Imperva said Tuesday federal agencies can use its SecureSphere Database Firewall and SecureSphere Web Application Firewall in efforts to identify cybersecurity risks, prioritize risks based on potential effect and help cybersecurity […] More
DLT Solutions and FinalCode have teamed up to provide file collaboration and sharing security platforms to public sector clients. FinalCode said Tuesday it will integrate its file security-based digital rights management platform with DLT’s portfolio of information security tools. Jeremy Young, vice president of cybersecurity for DLT, said the combination of products as a result […] More
A Denmark-based BAE Systems subsidiary entered into an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to provide an internet surveillance product for deep packet inspection, The Intercept reported Friday. Jenna McLaughlin writes Danish publication Dagbladet Information obtained documents from the Danish Business Authority that shows BAE Systems Applied Intelligence A/S‘ contract with UAE dates as far back as December 2014. The contract provides information on a […] More
A team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a five-year, $110 million award from the National Science Foundation to continue work on a project that aims to provide scientists and engineers access to computing resources. NSF said Tuesday principal investigators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will collaborate with other researchers from […] More
Forcepoint and the Ponemon Institute have released a cybersecurity study that discovered 91 percent of the 742 surveyed commercial and federal information technology operations and security managers predict an equal amount or continued growth of insider threats will be faced by their respective organizations. Forcepoint said Tuesday the “Insecurity of Privileged Users” study compared data sets from 2011 […] More
Dragos has obtained $1.2 million in a seed funding round backed by cybersecurity startup accelerator DataTribe. Dragos will use the funds to establish a threat operations facility that will work to provide cyber threat detection services for industrial control systems and supervisory control and data acquisition platforms as well as develop technologies intended for ICS networks, the […] More
The Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation will hold a cybersecurity-focused workshop for small business awardees of the Small Business Innovation Research program. DHS said Monday the 2016 Government Cyber Security SBIR Workshop will allow active Phase II and III SBIR participants to feature their new research and offerings as well as partner […] More
Davis Johnson, vice president of Riverbed Technology‘s public sector business, has noted legacy information technology systems and mobile cybersecurity issues as among the technical challenges facing agencies in an interview published Tuesday on Nextgov. Johnson told Nextgov’s Camille Tuutti that he still sees highly decentralized legacy IT platforms across the government and commercial sectors. “The government right now is really focused […] More
Metova Federal has received a potential $2.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide a suite of cyber range platforms in support of the service branch’s Cyber Operations Training Simulator program. The company said Thursday it will support the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command and network operations center through its suite of Cyberoperations Enhanced Network and […] More
