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Shield Capital has announced the final closing of its inaugural fund focused on early-stage venture capital investments. Upon its closing, Shield Capital Fund I, L.P. was oversubscribed at 55 percent above target and had obtained $186 million in capital commitments from institutional and private investors, Shield Capital said.
Forcepoint's Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure cybersecurity business will focus on insider risk and behavior analytics and increase investment in cyber defense technologies against insider threats after being acquired by asset management firm TPG, Forcepoint G2CI CEO Sean Berg told GovInfoSecurity in a recent interview. Berg commented that the divestiture is beneficial for the firm and Forcepoint's commercial business, but the two will continue to collaborate on certain endeavors.
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Illumio's zero trust segmentation platform to the public sector through its reseller partners and government procurement vehicles. Under the partnership, Carahsoft will serve as the master government aggregator for the Illumio ZTS micro-segmentation platform designed to enable government agencies to contain data breaches and protect mission-critical infrastructure against ransomware attacks.
The technology foundation of not-for-profit organization Mitre has spun out Mitre ATT&CK Defender onto venture-based startup MAD20 Technologies under a tech transfer agreement. MAD20 has been independently operating Mitre ATT&CK Defender — the training and credentialing program for the ATT&CK cybersecurity knowledge base — since Sept. 30, Mitre said.
Carahsoft Sales Director where for the past 14 years he has collaborated with a broad range of public sector organizations and the technology providers that serve them.
Whitworth recently took part in a Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz to explore cybersecurity policy, zero trust architecture, supply chain integrity and the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification framework.
Aeyon and its partners will provide the U.S. Marine Corps with cybersecurity and information technology risk and analysis support in an effort to boost its digital capabilities, enhance internal controls and strengthen cybersecurity posture. The company will work with Black & Rossi, Spry Methods and Zen Strategics as well as the USMC's Deputy Commandant for Information under a contract from the Information, Command, Control, Communications and Computers division.
The Department of the Treasury is seeking industry feedback on the draft performance work statement of a blanket purchase agreement for enterprise-wide professional and cybersecurity services. The potential eight-year BPA covers the provision of highly adaptive cybersecurity services to support the Treasury's security operations center functions in areas such as information security incident management, vulnerability management and adversary and advanced operations.
Wireless threat monitoring company LOCH Technologies has acquired software company Avirtek. With the transaction complete, LOCH said Monday it would work to enable a data detection and response capability by integrating Avirtek's autonomic cybersecurity technology into its AirShield platform.
Carahsoft Technology and Cyturus Technologies have partnered with The Cyber AB to deliver compliance management tools to registered practitioner organizations that help defense contractors prepare for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. Under the partnership, RPOs can gain free, limited access to the CMMC Readiness Tool, a Cyturus solution that lets users assess the cyber maturity […] More
ManTech has entered into a partnership to support entrepreneurs involved in the Cyber and Emerging Technologies Program of the Advanced Technology Development Center, the state of Georgia’s startup incubator. The company announced Thursday that it is collaborating with ATDC’s manager, the Georgia Institute of Technology, to launch companies with disruptive innovations that can be used […] More
Cloud security firm Zscaler teamed up with Intel to develop a novel approach that combines confidential computing and zero trust architecture to protect multiple cloud environments from cyber threats. The technique makes use of Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange and App Connector platforms and the Intel Trust Authority suite, Ken Urquhart, Zscaler’s global vice president of […] More
Arrowpoint and IntelliGenesis have won spots on a multiple-award U.S. Air Force contract for cybersecurity services. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a ceiling value of $60 million and calls on the awardees to provide defense industrial base partners with a comprehensive solution to shore up their cyber defenses. More
