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Sean DuGuay: Capgemini Eyes Federal Market Growth With Cybersecurity, PaaS Offerings

Sean DuGuay, principal of national security and defense at Capgemini’s U.S. government arm recently participated in an Executive Spotlight interview to overview cybersecurity and platform-as-a-service offerings that he believes can support the federal digital transformation push. “We look forward to working with the federal government in cyber and new platforms as-a-service. Our company has contracts […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 26, 2022, 11:45 am
in Cybersecurity News, Cybersecurity, News

Black Kite Study: 72% of Defense Contractors Experience Credential Leaks Over 90-Day Period

Seventy-two percent of the 100 U.S. defense companies included in a Black Kite analysis have at least one credential that has been compromised within a 90-day period, the cyber risk monitoring company said in its new report. The “Centralizing Supply Chain Cybersecurity: U.S. Federal Government Risk in 2022” report indicates the number of contractors that […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 25, 2022, 11:59 am
in Cybersecurity, Contract Awards, News

Amyx Books DOD Contracts for IT, Cybersecurity Support Services; William Schaefer Quoted

Amyx has received two contract awards from the Department of Defense for a range of information technology and cybersecurity services in support of its organizations. The Reston, Virginia-based cybersecurity and systems integrator said under the first award, it will provide a DOD customer with systems management, assessment and authorization support services as well as help […] More

by Christine Thropp May 19, 2022, 11:55 am
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Oracle Granted New DOD Provisional Authorizations for Cloud Service Offerings

Oracle has expanded its lineup of cloud services that has provisional authorization from the Department of Defense at impact level 5, making the products available for use by its defense and intelligence customers. A third-party assessment organization accredited by the government performed a readiness assessment of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure then Defense Information Systems Agency representatives […] More

by Christine Thropp May 18, 2022, 11:59 am
in Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity News, News

Google Proposes Zero Trust Cybersecurity Approach in Cloud for Government Agencies

Two Google Cloud executives described how the company’s cybersecurity framework can help agencies adopt zero trust principles to ensure the protection of cloud-based data assets and applications. Jeanette Manfra and Dan Prieto wrote in a joint blog post published Friday the BeyondCorp Enterprise platform offers an integrated approach for government organizations to defend against security […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 16, 2022, 11:55 am
in Cybersecurity, News

Q&A: Phil Fuster on Proofpoint’s Expansion Efforts & Cybersecurity Platform for Federal Agencies

Phil Fuster, vice president of federal sales at Proofpoint, recently participated in an Executive Spotlight interview to discuss the company’s growth initiatives in the government space, as well as its people-centric security risk management approach from a federal perspective. “Proofpoint has doubled the size of our federal team to expand our federal footprint into new […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 13, 2022, 11:56 am
in Cybersecurity News, Cybersecurity, News

GDIT Study: Federal Officials Expect to Meet Zero Trust Goals by End of FY24

A General Dynamics Information Technology study has found that 63 percent of officials from federal civilian and defense agencies said their organizations are on schedule to meet the zero trust security requirements by the end of fiscal year 2024 under the cybersecurity executive order signed in 2021. GDIT said it commissioned government research firm Market […] More

by Jane Edwards May 11, 2022, 11:56 am
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Microsoft Launches New Line of Managed Security Services

Microsoft has unveiled new and expanded security services under a category meant to help organizations achieve better security and productive outcomes. Microsoft Security Experts comes with three new managed services – Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, Microsoft Security Services for Enterprise and Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR or extended detection and response, Vasu Jakkal, corporate […] More

by Jane Edwards May 10, 2022, 11:54 am
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Majority of Federal Cyber Leaders Recognize Benefits of Cyber Executive Order; Zscaler’s Stephen Kovac Quoted

A new study has found that 91 percent of federal cybersecurity leaders say the cybersecurity executive order signed in 2021 has made U.S. critical infrastructure and data safer. MeriTalk said Thursday it surveyed more than 150 federal cyber decision-makers in March for the Impact Assessment: Cyber EO Year One report and found that 82 percent […] More

by Jane Edwards May 6, 2022, 12:01 pm
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Palo Alto Public Sector SVP Dana Barnes on Cybersecurity Investment, OMB’s Zero Trust Requirement

Dana Barnes, senior vice president for U.S. public sector at Palo Alto Networks and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, has shared that the company is continuing its investment in delivering integrated platform of capabilities to government agencies in an effort to help them gain a complete cybersecurity perspective. In an interview with CyberScoop, Barnes said […] More

by Christine Thropp May 4, 2022, 11:53 am
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HackerOne, DOD Wrap Up Vulnerability Disclosure Pilot Program for Defense Industry

Forty-one companies took part in a pilot program the Department of Defense and HackerOne facilitated over the past 12 months to help participants identify cybersecurity weaknesses on publicly accessible systems. Volunteers with 348 systems signed up for the Defense Industrial Base-Vulnerability Disclosure Program and 288 security researchers at HackerOne offered 401 actionable reports to asset […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 4, 2022, 11:50 am
in Cybersecurity News, Cybersecurity, Government Technology, News

VMware’s Virtualization Platform Achieves DISA Security Guide Compliance; Jennifer Chronis Quoted

The Defense Information Systems Agency has published a Security Technical Implementation Guide for a network virtualization and security product from VMware to the Department of Defense’s cyber exchange database. Through consultation of the installation rules, security guidelines and controls listed in the STIG, VMware NSX will be usable across the DOD and in other government departments, […] More

by Charles Lyons-Burt April 27, 2022, 12:00 pm