Cybersecurity

Fortinet, Microsoft and Paypal have joined an international alliance of public and private organizations that aims to disrupt the ecosystem of Internet-based crimes through threat research collaboration and intelligence sharing. The Cybercrime Atlas Initiative will offer a global knowledge base platform designed to help analysts gain insight into malicious actors’ infrastructure and use data to […] More

Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, said he believes the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Data Strategy Implementation Plan requires intensive involvement and alignment among the chief information officer, chief information security officer and the chief data officer. In an interview on Fedscoop’s Daily Scoop Podcast, he stated the C-suite and their teams must have […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a security technical implementation guide for the installation of the Chef configuration management tool in Microsoft Windows servers. The document contains Chef configurations that comply with the Windows Server 2022 STIG, and serves as a resource to help users enhance security within their systems, DISA said Friday. The […] More

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has granted U2opia Technology exclusive licensing rights to a pair of tools designed to support cybersecurity threat visualization and analysis. U2opia intends to integrate the Situ and Heartbeat platforms developed within the ORNL Cyber Resilience and Intelligence Division into the company’s anomaly detection product, the laboratory said Friday. An ORNL research […] More

Mitre has introduced a visualization tool that could enable organizations to structure their cyber resiliency techniques, goals and objectives in accordance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s publication on building cyber-resilient platforms. The Cyber Resiliency Engineering Framework Navigator is a free tool available to the cyber community and follows four guiding pillars: anticipating […] More

Leidos has launched a new version of its Zero Trust Readiness Level software suite in an effort to help government agencies implement zero trust adoption in less than 60 days. The tool is designed to support federal offices in complying with President Joe Biden’s executive order on improving national cybersecurity, as well as the Office […] More

Intel has been selected to participate in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to develop cryptography tools for safeguarding integrated computing systems from cyberthreats. The company said Wednesday it will work with the University of California, San Diego to test and demonstrate the Cryptographic Capability Computing memory safety mechanism as part of the Hardening […] More

Carahsoft Technology will be able to offer Fidelis Cybersecurity’s software platforms to government agencies following the products’ addition to the National Association of State Procurement Officials’ ValuePoint list. The ValuePoint contract, which is held by Carahsoft, facilitates federal offices’ acquisition of Fidelis platforms, Fidelis said. Under the NASPO ValuePoint Master Agreement, government organizations are now […] More

Alex Whitworth, cybersecurity solutions vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, discussed the ransomware attacks on health care organizations and utilities that information technology administrators should understand as they assess the cybersecurity posture of their organizations and implement measures to protect their networks from such attacks. Whitworth wrote in a blog post published Monday that ransomware attacks […] More

James Yeager, vice president of public sector and health care at CrowdStrike, said there are three trends cyber defense teams in health care and public sectors should watch out for in 2023 and one of those is advancing the federal government’s zero trust strategy amid the increase in identity-based attacks. “The federal government’s zero-trust strategy […] More

A Motorola Solutions-established cyberthreat information sharing and analysis organization has taken part in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative. The company said Wednesday Public Safety Threat Alliance joining JCDC advances its commitment to the global public safety community. PSTA, which was launched by Motorola in 2022, includes almost 150 member organizations […] More

Industry executives Debbie Taylor Moore, Anthony Johnson, Gene Chao and Katherine Gronberg have joined the board of directors of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body. The new directors will take part in the Cyber AB’s quarterly meetings set to kick off in January in the National Capital Region, the nonprofit organization said Wednesday. Moore […] More