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The Department of Veterans Affairs is requesting information on commercial software that could be used to search exploited agency data on a dark Web site. In a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday, the VA said it is interested in technology that will employ an encrypted data hash or a pattern matching tool to scan the dark Web for VA-sourced data […] More
The research subsidiary of Vencore has been awarded a potential four-year, $8.3 million by the U.S. Air Force to help the military service branch research and develop analog sensing technology for monitoring of digital threats. Vencore Labs and the Air Force Research Laboratory will collaborate to build a multi-model analog sensing system through the Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security initiative, the […] More
Praxis Engineering Technologies has won a $12.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a multi-model analog sensing platform for a cybersecurity technology development program run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Defense Department said Thursday Praxis will help the service branch identify features to compute from signals that a device emits during training and testing as […] More
Angela Messer, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said the company’s cyber practice is composed of what she called various “tribes†of professionals that work to address cyber threats through a “consultative approach to problem solving.†Messer told the Washington Business Journal in an interview posted Thursday that those tribes include engineers, consultants and […] More
General Dynamics plans to offer a cyber monitoring service to industrial control system operators through the company’s information technology business unit as part of a push to expand into the ICS market. Bernie Guerry, senior vice president of the intelligence solutions division in General Dynamics’ IT unit, said Tuesday the company aims to bring its military-grade cybersecurity services into the commercial sector in […] More
Exostar has integrated Seclore‘s Enterprise Digital Rights Management system into a collaboration platform that works to provide data protection for defense contractors to support compliance with the Defense Department‘s Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement provisions. Exostar said Wednesday the collaboration platform is designed to provide document-centric protection for users of Exostar’s ForumPass cloud-based, software-as-a-service offering. The company added the newly incorporated system works to […] More
NexDefense has agreed to offer its industrial network security monitoring and anomaly detection system to General Dynamics’ information technology business unit under a new collaboration pact between both organizations. The commercial cyber services organization within General Dynamics’ IT unit will utilize NexDefense’s Sophia product to expand cybersecurity monitoring services into the industrial control system market, NexDefense said Tuesday. “Critical […] More
Belden has updated the company’s industrial security appliance offering to include support for energy-specific communication protocols meant to help guard power generation and transmission facilities against cyber threats. The Tofino Xenon platform works to counter malicious and unauthorized access, increase supervisory control and data acquisition system and secure industrial control system devices, Belden said Tuesday. “Protecting the critical infrastructure that drives […] More
The Identity Theft Resource Center found during a study that there were 781 publicly reported data breaches across the U.S. public and private sectors during 2015. Forty-percent of those breaches tracked by ITRC occurred in the business sector, an 8.1 percent increase from 2014 figures, the center said Jan. 25. Healthcare organizations had the second highest percentage of data security incidents last […] More
Raytheon has opened a new facility in Richardson, Texas that will house data processing work for unmanned airborne and space-based operations, WBAP/KLIF News reported Monday. According to the station, Raytheon looks to hire at least 2,000 workers in the city to add to the current pool of 27,000 employees across Texas. Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s […] More
Cambridge International Systems has received a five-year contract from NASA to provide information technology management and other technical services in support of the Johnson Space Center’s Base Information Technology Security Program. The space agency made the award under the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 contract vehicle, […] More
Thales and the Dutch armed forces’ defense cyber command formed an alliance to establish a new cyber training and testing facility. The Cyber Range will provide a platform to simulate cyber attacks as well as protective and defense mechanisms on different weapon systems, IT environments or satellite links and test offensive cyber tactics, Thales said Tuesday. The company added it will […] More
