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Bothell, Washington-based software development company Veramine has landed a $149,979 contract from the U.S. Air Force under the Small Business Innovation Research program to conduct cyber deception research in support of the military branch’s network defense efforts, C4ISRNET reported Friday. Mark Pomerleau writes Veramine will design and develop tools for use in a representative cyber scenario as well as perform […] More
Fidelis Cybersecurity has introduced a database and two freeware tools that work to detect cyber threats and protect network infrastructure from data theft. The Barncat Threat Intelligence Database contains a collection of more than 100,000 records of malware-derived configuration settings in remote access tools and is designed to help cyber analysts identify and attribute cyber […] More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has moved forward to the operational readiness review phase of its cybersecurity platform for federal civilian agencies under a Department of Homeland Security-run continuous diagnostics and mitigation program. The company designed its automated CDM platform to help government users identify and categorize information technology security risk by priority, HPE said Tuesday. “HPE is proud to be a trusted partner with DHS […] More
Cylance has added government distributor FedResults to its list of strategic partners to deliver cybersecurity offerings to the federal information technology market. Through the partnership, federal customers will have access to preventive endpoint security technology offerings developed based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, Cylance said Tuesday. “Recent events have shown how critical it is […] More
A Tripwire survey says 54 percent of information security professionals believe the November U.S. presidential election would not have a negative impact on global cybersecurity. Tripwire said Tuesday it polled 400 information security executives that attended Infosecurity Europe 2016 from June 7 to June 9 at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. “Given the difficulties in passing effective cybersecurity legislation and […] More
Galois has received a $6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a technology platform that will work to identify cyber threats within enterprise network and system environments. The company said Monday it will collaborate with the University of Edinburgh, Xerox’s PARC company and Oregon State University to build the Diagnostic Approach for Persistent Threat Detection […] More
The U.S. Army‘s Cyber Center of Excellence plans to launch an annual cyberspace operations, signal and electronic warfare prototyping experiment in July 2017 to assess emerging technologies that could help address a warfighting challenge. A notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the upcoming Cyber Quest seeks to gather technology concepts and examine the potential impact of the concepts on the Army’s doctrine, […] More
A Raytheon subsidiary, the International Computer Science Institute and Yale University have received separate contracts from the Department of Homeland Security to develop technologies that will work to protect privacy and personally identifying information. The three contracts have a total value of $3.66 million and seek to secure online  information in the public and private sectors as part of the data […] More
A cross-service tactical program of the Defense Department has deployed SteelCloud‘s automated remediation platform to drive compliance with the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s Security Technical Implementation Guide standards. SteelCloud said Thursday ConfigOS is designed to scan Windows and Linux systems for STIG controls in less than a minute and remediate a system in less than two minutes without manual labor. “It […] More
ThreatTrack has launched an updated version of its ThreatAnalyzer malware analysis sandbox product with additional features built to help organizations detect and respond to Zero-day threats, targeted attacks and known and unknown malware. The company said Thursday ThreatAnalyzer 6.1 has a new behavioral detection engine for files and URLs, cloud-based threat intelligence services, anti-forensic controls and a YARA-based rule engine […] More
Boeing has licensed the differential power analysis countermeasures offering of Rambus Inc. in an effort to protect technologies on Boeing’s aircraft and defense-related products from security threats. Rambus’ cryptography research division and Boeing have inked the license agreement to install the DPA countermeasures onto Boeing’s products to combat reverse engineering and exploitation attacks, Rambus said […] More
The worldwide cooperative Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication has employed the help of BAE Systems and Fox-IT and established a team of information technology and cyber experts to support security investigations within SWIFT’s global user community. SWIFT said Monday its new Customer Security Intelligence team will work alongside BAE and Fox-IT to foster customer information exchanges in support of SWIFT’s Customer […] More
