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Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: DFARS, CMMC 2.0 Have Complementary Roles in Protecting Data, National Security

Alex Whitworth, director of sales at Carahsoft Technology, said that although the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program have differences when it comes to their compliance assessment, both standards complement each other in safeguarding data and national security and advancing the interests of defense contractors. He wrote in a […] More

by Jane Edwards November 11, 2022, 4:05 am
in Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Contract Awards, News

Charles River Analytics Secures Navy Funding to Develop Cybersecurity Forensics Software

Charles River Analytics has received a two-phase contract from the Office of Naval Research for the development of a tool that can aid forensic analysis of cyberthreat actors’ tactics, techniques and procedures. The software company said Tuesday the $2.5 million award under ONR’s Small Business Technology Transfer program centers on the Cyber Adversary Discovery Engine, […] More

by Jamie Bennet November 10, 2022, 11:39 am
in Cybersecurity, News

Mitre Engenuity Unveils Results of ATT&CK Evaluations of 16 Cybersecurity Vendors

Mitre Engenuity has released the results of its assessment of 16 security service providers and their capabilities to analyze the behavior of a cyberthreat actor as part of the ATT&CK Evaluations program. The Evals program’s purple team assessed the companies using the Mitre ATT&CK knowledge base of cyber adversary behavior to emulate the techniques and […] More

by Jane Edwards November 10, 2022, 11:37 am
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NetImpact Gets Microsoft Preferred Solution Badge for Cybersecurity Offering; PV Puvvada Quoted

NetImpact Strategies has received the Preferred Solution badge from Microsoft for its commercial-off-the-shelf software designed to help organizations automate the implementation of information security policies and manage their security posture. NetImpact said Tuesday its DX360 Security Accreditation, Remediation, Management of Operations and Risk in Microsoft AppSource is a cybersecurity platform that could help organizations manage […] More

by Jane Edwards November 9, 2022, 4:24 am
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Microsoft Report: Nation-State Hacks of Critical Infrastructure Doubled Over 12 Months

Threat actors linked to Iran, North Korea, China and Russia have launched more digital attacks in the past 12 months compared to previous years to demonstrate power and intimidation not only in their jurisdiction but to international adversaries as well, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report. Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and […] More

by Jamie Bennet November 8, 2022, 11:56 am
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Raytheon to Field Test UAS Traffic Management Capabilities for FAA

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business unit was tapped to field test uncrewed aircraft systems traffic management capabilities for the Federal Aviation Administration. Raytheon Intelligence & Space said Monday it will perform data correlation using remote identification, update the cybersecurity capabilities of UTM technology and evaluate future concepts that support real-world small UAS operations. Denis […] More

by Naomi Cooper November 8, 2022, 11:54 am
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SpyCloud’s Joel Bagnal on CISA’s Cybersecurity Performance Goals for Critical Infrastructure Sector

Joel Bagnal, director of federal business at cybercrime analytics provider SpyCloud, said he expects future cybersecurity performance goals from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to pave way to better visibility into cyberthreats facing the critical infrastructure sector, InformationWeek reported Friday. Bagnal’s statement comes a week after CISA released a new set of cybersecurity performance […] More

by Naomi Cooper November 7, 2022, 10:15 am
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Sophos’ Rob Lalumondier on Government Cybersecurity Policies, Employee Productivity

Rob Lalumondier, vice president of federal at Sophos, shared his thoughts on President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order and how the policy advances the adoption of technologies including multifactor authentication and zero trust infrastructure at agencies. “In addition, we’re also seeing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that has been widely discussed and the much needed billion […] More

by Jane Edwards November 7, 2022, 5:01 am
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Chertoff Group Gets DHS Recertification for Security Risk Management Methodology

The Department of Homeland Security has recertified a Chertoff Group process that works to help organizations assess risk and design a security program based on their own operating environment. The Security Risk Management Consulting Methodology initially received DHS’ SAFETY Act designation in 2017 and has been continuously refined based on industry best practices, the advisory […] More

by Jamie Bennet November 4, 2022, 11:59 am
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LookingGlass, Federal Defense Customer Expand Threat Intelligence Contract; Bryan Ware Quoted

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions will continue to handle cyberthreat intelligence analysis for the U.S. federal government under an extended and expanded contract with a defense customer. Under the renewed contract, the company said Wednesday it will broaden optimization of threat intelligence in support of government cyber analysts working to bolster the client agency’s cybersecurity operations. Government […] More

by Regina Garcia November 3, 2022, 11:47 am
in Cybersecurity, Contract Awards, News

CGI Federal Awarded NRC Cybersecurity Support Contract; Stefan Becker Quoted

CGI Federal has booked a $17.4 million contract to help the Nuclear Regulatory Commission update cybersecurity tools and processes. The award under NRC’s Global Infrastructure and Development Acquisition blanket purchase agreement tasks CGI Federal with helping advance the agency’s ability to safeguard information technology assets from present and future cyberthreats, the company said Thursday. “Through […] More

by Ireland Degges November 3, 2022, 11:43 am
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Navy Taps Technica to Modernize Cybersecurity Risk Management Framework

Technica has secured an other transaction agreement with the U.S. Navy to modernize the service branch’s risk management framework through a prototype application meant to enable integration and synchronization with day-to-day operations, configuration control and maintenance. Work is under the Information Warfare Research Project Consortium OTA, the information technology service management company said Monday. Technica […] More

by Jamie Bennet November 1, 2022, 11:57 am