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  • PFP Cybersecurity to Demo Data Center Router Rack Security Tool; Thurston Brooks Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PFP Cybersecurity to Demo Data Center Router Rack Security Tool; Thurston Brooks Comments

    PFP Cybersecurity has launched a monitoring and security tool for data center router racks intended to help counter malware attacks against enterprises. The new offering features a portable unit for regular cyber scans and a rack-mount monitoring unit that prevents operational disruptions during security checks, PFP Cybersecurity said Monday. PFP will use the tool to […] More

  • Thales, Cisco Enter IT Security Tech Devt Partnership; Jean-Michel Lagarde Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales, Cisco Enter IT Security Tech Devt Partnership; Jean-Michel Lagarde Comments

    Cisco and Thales have forged a strategic partnership to develop a platform that will work to protect data networks and information technology systems from potential cyber attacks. Both companies seek to collaborate with startups and establish their project in France in order to build a cyber tool designed to help critical infrastructure operators detect and counter threats, […] More

  • Cisco, Saudi Arabia Sign Digitization Partnership Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Saudi Arabia Sign Digitization Partnership Agreement

    Cisco has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia in an effort to facilitate adoption of digital platforms in the country. The company will help Saudi Arabia develop its information, communication and technology infrastructure as well share its experience and skills in the implementation of digital government and connected education and healthcare programs through the memorandum […] More

  • Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sets UCaaS Market CAGR at 11.2% in 2016-2022

    A new Research and Markets report forecasts the unified communication as a service market to reach a compound annual growth rate of 11.2 percent beginning in 2016 through 2022. The report indicates that telecommunications, information technology and retail applications currently dominate the market and that banking, financial services and insurance and logistics will drive the […] More

  • Alliance for Transportation Innovation Launches; Paul Brubaker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alliance for Transportation Innovation Launches; Paul Brubaker Comments

    Washington business leaders have launched the Alliance for Transportation Innovation organization comprised of companies, advocates and experts in transportation technology who seek to improve the country’s transportation systems through innovative technologies. ATI21 will work with transportation innovation industry leaders, including the Consumer Technology Association, the consortium said Thursday. Paul Brubaker, ATI21 chairman and a former administrator of the Transportation […] More

  • Cisco Puts New Investment Toward Cyber Scholarship Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Puts New Investment Toward Cyber Scholarship Program

    Cisco has invested $10 million toward its two-year Global Cybersecurity Scholarship program the company started to address what it estimates as a projected global shortage of 2 million cybersecurity professionals by 2019. The company said Tuesday it will also integrate a new Cyber Ops Certification to its current certification portfolio and update its CCIE security certification to address new skills and education that […] More

  • FCN Receives DHA Contract to Maintain Cisco Hardware at US Military Treatment Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FCN Receives DHA Contract to Maintain Cisco Hardware at US Military Treatment Facilities

    The Defense Health Agency has awarded FCN a $10.4 million contract to provide maintenance services for Cisco-built infrastructure currently installed at DHA and U.S. military treatment facilities around the world. The Defense Department said Monday the contract has a nine-month base transition-in period and four 12-month options and will include account management, subject matter training, non-standard report preparation and cybersecurity support. DoD noted that existing Cisco hardware […] More

  • Cisco's Will Ash: Integration, Consolidation & Automation Key to DHS' Continuous Monitoring Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Will Ash: Integration, Consolidation & Automation Key to DHS’ Continuous Monitoring Standards

    Will Ash, Cisco senior director for U.S. public sector security sales, has said integration, consolidation and automation are key to meet the Department of Homeland Security‘s requirements for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Ash wrote in a blog post published Monday that agencies will need technology partners to help meet the program’s continuous monitoring requirements and drive changes such as optimized response […] More

  • Cisco Executive Chair John Chambers Joins OpenGov Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Executive Chair John Chambers Joins OpenGov Board of Directors

    John Chambers, executive chairman and former CEO of Cisco, has joined the board of directors of OpenGov and invested in the latter company’s cloud-based financial intelligence and planning services. OpenGov said Thursday the company seeks to draw on Chambers’ experience in work with local and county governments, special and school districts as well as state and federal public […] More

  • Cisco to Sponsor IACA Conference in Netherlands - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco to Sponsor IACA Conference in Netherlands

    Cisco will serve as a sponsor for the 2016 International Association of Court Administration regional conference to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, from May 18 to 20. AJ Ramsey, a Cisco marketing manager, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday the event will offer participants an opportunity to learn more about various European legal systems and court […] More

  • Cisco Seeks to Support DoD Cyber Strategy Through NIST Risk Mgmt Framework Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Seeks to Support DoD Cyber Strategy Through NIST Risk Mgmt Framework Compliance

    Cisco has moved to align its cybersecurity platforms with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Risk Management Framework’s process for the selection of security controls. Steve Caimi, industry solutions specialist at Cisco, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that such effort seeks to support of the Defense Department’s cybersecurity strategy. “Selecting the security controls […] More