Cybersecurity

Brian O’Donnell, a vice president at Carahsoft Technology, talked about how the company helps government agency customers shift from endpoint detection and response toward a more holistic approach to cybersecurity. “With the executive orders that came out this year and the instruction towards zero trust, we’ve seen that some of those EDR implementations help to […] More

Trust Lab, a web security platform developer, and In-Q-Tel, the U.S. intelligence community’s venture capital arm, will work together to advance the detection of harmful online content to combat cyber risks such as misinformation and strengthen internet security overall.  Under the long-term partnership, the two entities will utilize Trust Lab’s machine learning-based rule engines and […] More

CrowdStrike is extending its partnership with Ernst & Young to provide cloud network security and observability services to their customers worldwide. The new agreement centers on using CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform to equip DevSecOps teams with Cloud Security and Observability to help prevent data breaches in on-demand computing, the company said Tuesday. EY currently utilizes CrowdStrike’s […] More

The Joint Authorization Board of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has moved to prioritize collaboration with IronNet to help the latter secure a provisional authority to operate for its threat detection and data exchange platform. IronNet’s Collective Defense technology was chosen to undergo the JAB’s evaluation process for P-ATO following the latest round […] More

The Federal Railroad Administration and Ensco held an event Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado. Ensco assumed management responsibility for TTC earlier this month under a potential 20-year, $571 million contract from the FRA. The company said Tuesday some representatives from the government and the commercial […] More

Forward Networks’ cloud modeling software has been added to the Approved Products List of the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program. The company said Monday its Forward Enterprise platform was cleared for managing federal assets, network security and data protection and was envisioned to help users implement cybersecurity policy, mitigate cloud network […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will collaborate with Virginia-based digital marketing company Katzcy to bring together cybersecurity athletes to represent the U.S. at an international competition. Both parties sealed a five-year pact to perform cooperative work through the U.S. Cyber Games, which the woman-owned small business and NIST’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education […] More

The acquisition directorate under Washington Headquarters Services has issued a sources sought notice for its plan to contract out information technology hardware and software for that Department of Defense field activity in Alexandria, Virginia. The notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov centers on IT operation, management and maintenance of facility-related control systems. WHS is inviting all […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space division has showcased its zero trust offering for the U.S. Army in a technology demonstration event held at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. John DeSimone, president of cybersecurity, intelligence and services at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, said in a statement published Thursday the Operational Zero Trust platform is a fully […] More

A Raytheon Technologies business has combined its zero trust offering with Red Hat’s OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform to help customers facilitate security deployments across information and operational technology environments. REDPro ZTX from Raytheon Intelligence and Space is a zero trust integration platform that supports vendor-agnostic applications and is designed to speed up enterprise-scale zero trust […] More

PsiQuantum will further develop the photonic approach to quantum computing under a $22.5 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Wednesday it will work with AFRL to design, develop and produce quantum photonic chips at GlobalFoundries’ semiconductor foundry in Malta, New York. Quantum photonic chips can process and control qubits based […] More