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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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Northrop Grumman and NEC Corp. have worked to deploy a private, cloud-based cyber range system in the country as part of efforts to help customers create a testing and training environment. The J-CORTEX is designed to imitate situations to prepare cyber professionals to detect and effectively deal with cyber threats, Northrop Grumman said Wednesday. Jack Dorsett, […] More
A Raytheon-commissioned study carried out by the Ponemon Institute study found at least two-thirds of businesses wait until cyber attacks damage their systems or steal data to contact managed security services providers. The Don’t Wait: The Evolution of Proactive Threat Hunting survey includes responses from nearly 1,700 information security leaders across 19 countries on the outsourcing of network security activities, Raytheon […] More
Milpitas, California-based security company FireEye has added 12 technology companies to its partner ecosystem that aims to help customers address complex security challenges with a FireEye-built threat management platform. The Cyber Security Coalition works to integrate FireEye’s Global Threat Management platform with various security offerings in an effort to simplify how enterprise clients avoid, detect, examine or respond to attacks, the company said Friday. “Security teams are […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has awarded root9B a subcontract to deliver manpower, services and technologies to the U.S. Cyber Command and U.S. Defense Department. Root9B will help SAIC support Cybercom’s functions to plan, integrate, synchronize, coordinate and conduct defense and operations of DoD components, root9B said Friday. SAIC is one of six prime awardees on a potential five-year, $460 million contract for mission support services to […] More
Fidelis Cybersecurity has established a regional office in the U.K. as part of its efforts to grow the company’s European client base and offer channel partners with technology platforms designed to detect and prevent cyber attacks. The company said Friday it appointed Paul Roberts, a former regional director at Arbor Networks, as regional vice president to lead Fidelis’ new facility in Fleet, […] More
A Concurrent Technologies Corp. subsidiary has rolled out a cybersecurity software offering in an effort to help government and commercial organizations address threats from malware and malicious content. Enterprise Ventures Corp. released the Advanced Guard for Information Security file transfer system that works to remove malicious and rogue content from sensitive files without affecting the file […] More
Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has said that SAP NS2 is exploring new cybersecurity and intelligence collection methods in an interview with IT Business Edge published Wednesday. IT Business Edge quoted him as saying he believes commercial technology can help government agencies to protect systems against cyber threats and fuse traditional and open-source intelligence sources. […] More
Vencore has partnered with George Mason University’s school of business to create a deployable cyber risk assessment tool and methodology for federal agencies. Vencore said Wednesday the team will work on a data valuation architecture design and develop models based on the design to calculate the potential financial impact in case of a data breach. “It is currently difficult to measure […] More
The General Services Administration plans to conduct a workshop on the Cybersecurity National Action Plan at GSA’s headquarters in Washington on June 13. GSA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it will discuss at the event the continuous diagnostics and mitigation/continuous monitoring-as-a-service program, acquisition strategy in support of CNAP as well as the results of […] More
George Washington University and IBM have established four task forces to support GWU’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security unit’s efforts to deliver research and analysis on cyber, homeland security and counterterrorism policies. John Lainhart and Christopher Ballister from the IBM Center for the Business of Government wrote in a blog post published Friday that CCHS works to address cyber and homeland security […] More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has released encryption and tokenization offerings intended to help organizations and government agencies protect large amounts of data, Homeland Security Today reported Thursday. Krysta Dodd writes that HPE SecureData, Hyper Format-Preserving Encryption and Hyper Secure Stateless Tokenization are certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in compliance with the General […] More
Deloitte and Canada’s Polytechnique Montreal have formed an agreement to update Polytechnique’s cybersecurity training program in a move to address the changing cyber threat landscape. The team revised the course content of the certificate programs in cyber investigation, online fraud and information technology network computer security, Polytechnique said Wednesday. The new programs will be available at […] More
