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  • Cisco’s Peter Romness Pushes for More Comprehensive Authentication to Support Common Access Cards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Peter Romness Pushes for More Comprehensive Authentication to Support Common Access Cards

    Peter Romness, cybersecurity programs lead for Cisco Systems’ U.S. public sector group, believes a more comprehensive authentication mechanism is needed to fend off sophisticated threats, C4ISR & Networks reported Monday. Romness said authentication must cover more than just a person’s identity, John Edwards and Eve Keiser report. “We need to know who the user is, where […] More

  • Optus, Cisco to Co-Invest in Cyber & Internet of Things Tech Development for Australia's Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Optus, Cisco to Co-Invest in Cyber & Internet of Things Tech Development for Australia’s Public Sector

    Optus and Cisco have signed a letter of intent to allocate funds for a $12 million co-investment toward the development of cybersecurity, cloud and Internet of Things technologies for government agencies and businesses in Australia. Optus said Thursday the three-year investment was established in early March at the Cisco Global Partner Summit in San Diego, where Cisco announced the telecommunications company as […] More

  • Cisco's Data Center Mgmt Platforms Available on Avnet's GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Data Center Mgmt Platforms Available on Avnet’s GSA Schedule

    Avnet Government Solutions has added Cisco‘s portfolio of computing, storage and networking technologies for data centers to its General Services Administration schedule contract. Avnet said Wednesday the company and its partner resellers can now offer agencies Cisco platforms designed to manage information technology applications, virtual machines and cloud-based systems. Cisco and Avnet have partnered on multiple data center offerings over the […] More

  • ViON Awarded Nonprofit, State & Local Govt IT Support Contract; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON Awarded Nonprofit, State & Local Govt IT Support Contract; Tom Frana Comments

    ViON Corp. has received a three-year contract from the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance to provide information technology platforms and support services to nonprofit and public sector agencies across the U.S. The contract took effect in October 2015 and covers more than 15,700 cloud and big data offerings, warranties and professional services from ViON and its partners, ViON said […] More

  • Northrop Unveils National Cyber Competition Finalists; Sandra Evers-Manly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Unveils National Cyber Competition Finalists; Sandra Evers-Manly Comments

    Northrop Grumman has announced the high school and middle school teams that will compete at the final round of the 2016 CyberPatriot VIII national competition scheduled on April 12. The finalists comprise 25 high school teams and three middle school teams, which will go head-to-head in the one-day event to protect networks and mobile devices from a professional aggressor team, Northrop said […] More

  • World Wide Technology Wins Cisco Partner Award; Jim Kavanaugh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    World Wide Technology Wins Cisco Partner Award; Jim Kavanaugh Comments

    World Wide Technology has received a Cisco Partner Summit Global Award in recognition of the former company’s business practices and role it plays in the technology services industry. The company received the 2016 Solution Innovation Partner of the Year award at Cisco’s annual partner conference in California, WWT said Friday. “We are honored to receive these awards and continue to deepen […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance

    Lockheed Martin will work with LogRhythm on cybersecurity systems integration pilot programs after the latter signed up for the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. LogRhythm also agreed to offer its security intelligence platform and share cybersecurity-focused best practices with Lockheed as a member of the alliance, Lockheed said Monday. The LogRhythm-built security intelligence tool works to […] More

  • Bruce Klein, Paul Opalack Join Tech 2000 Board of Directors; Tien Wong Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bruce Klein, Paul Opalack Join Tech 2000 Board of Directors; Tien Wong Comments

    Bruce Klein and Paul Opalack have joined Tech 2000 Inc. as members of the company’s board of directors. Klein, formerly senior vice president of Cisco’s worldwide partner organization, and Opalack, managing director of Noblestar Capital, will aid in the company’s effort to further the development of its software-as-a-service businesses appnetic and Lumious, Tech 2000 said […] More

  • Ari Schwartz: New Industry Coalition to Push for Cybersecurity Policies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ari Schwartz: New Industry Coalition to Push for Cybersecurity Policies

    Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, Arbor Networks and Rapid7 have formed a coalition to educate and influence policymakers on cybersecurity issues. The Coalition for Cybersecurity Policy and Law said Thursday it aims to represent industry in policymaking venues and help the government identify strategies to spur development of information technology security tools and methods. “The members of this coalition are dedicated to building […] More

  • Donald Carty, Anthony Bates Join VMware Board; Pat Gelsinger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Donald Carty, Anthony Bates Join VMware Board; Pat Gelsinger Comments

    Donald Carty, a director at EMC, and GoPro President Anthony Bates have joined the board of directors of VMware. “With their business insight and experience across diverse industries as well as technology companies, their perspective and counsel will prove invaluable for the VMware board and executive team,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said Tuesday. Carty has been with […] More

  • Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments

    Lockheed Martin has introduced Solutionary to the former company’s cybersecurity alliance in an effort to help bolster initiatives to combat cyber attacks. Solutionary, an NTT group security company, provides managed security, professional security and global threat intelligence services for information technology infrastructures, cloud environments and mobile data, Lockheed said Thursday. Angie Heise, vice president of commercial […] More

  • Executive Profile: Gary DePreta, Cisco Public Sector Sales Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Gary DePreta, Cisco Public Sector Sales Director

    Gary DePreta serves as director in the public sector sales organization of Cisco, where he leads the company’s federal national security operation. DePreta was most recently responsible for Cisco’s civilian agency sales organization and federal healthcare and scientific agency teams. Upon joining Cisco, DePreta worked to help Cisco develop go-to-market programs that led to the […] More