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  • Luke Tenery Named Ankura Cyber Practice Senior Managing Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Luke Tenery Named Ankura Cyber Practice Senior Managing Director

    Luke Tenery, former associate managing director of Kroll’s cybersecurity and investigations practice, has been appointed as senior managing director for the cybersecurity practice at Ankura Consulting Group‘s risk, resilience and geopolitical group. Ankura said Monday Tenery will be based in the company’s Chicago office and brings 15 years of cyber incident investigations and forensics, data privacy and […] More

  • Unisys to Help CBP Modernize US Border Security Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys to Help CBP Modernize US Border Security Systems

    Unisys has secured a potential five-year contract from the Customs and Border Protection to update systems that CBP uses to identify people and vehicles that enter and exit the U.S. The Integrated Traveler Initiatives contract was awarded as a task order under the Department of Homeland Security-run EAGLE II procurement vehicle and represents an iteration of CBP’s Land Border Integration project awarded to […] More

  • UMUC to Continue Support for Air Force Association's CyberPatriot - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UMUC to Continue Support for Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot

    The University of Maryland University College will continue to sponsor the Air Force Association’s national youth cyber education program for a fourth consecutive year. UMUC said Thursday it will support the CyberPatriot program in an effort to promote science, technology, engineering, mathematics and cybersecurity education to students. The 2015-2016 CyberPatriot National Defense Competition aims to develop the skills of youth participants via […] More

  • Booz Allen, Phantom Partner to Develop Security Automation, Orchestration Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Phantom Partner to Develop Security Automation, Orchestration Tools

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Phantom have forged a strategic alliance that seeks to combine the former’s cyber intelligence expertise with the latter’s security automation and orchestration technology in a push to help increase the resilience of enterprise systems against threats. The partnership aims offer a portfolio of automation and orchestration platforms to support incident response and threat defense operations […] More

  • White House, NCSA Launch Campaign to Encourage 'Strong Authentication' for Online Accounts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    White House, NCSA Launch Campaign to Encourage ‘Strong Authentication’ for Online Accounts

    The White House and the National Cyber Security Alliance have launched a campaign that aims to increase the adoption of strong authentication methods for online accounts. NCSA said Wednesday the Lock Down Your Login initiative calls on the public to move beyond usernames and passwords through stronger authentication that provides multiple forms of verification such as security keys, biometrics or unique […] More

  • CACI, AOC, Center for Security Policy to Hold National Security Symposium; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI, AOC, Center for Security Policy to Hold National Security Symposium; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International, the Association of Old Crows and the Center for Security Policy will sponsor an annual national security symposium on Sept. 22 at the Gannett Conference Center in McLean, Virginia. The ninth leg in the Asymmetric Threat symposia series will focus on the discussion around global threats to U.S. national security, CACI said Thursday. […] More

  • AT&T's Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Chris Smith: Managed Services From Industry Can Help Agencies Handle Cyber Issues

    Chris Smith, global public sector solutions vice president of technology for AT&T‘s global public sector business, has said federal agencies with limited information technology budgets should team up with industry partners to address cybersecurity issues, Channelnomics reported Wednesday. Scharon Harding writes the government allocated $80.4 billion on IT spending last year with cybersecurity concerns as a prime focus for many agencies. Smith […] More

  • SAIC, Huntsville City Schools Launch Cyber Academy; John Gully Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC, Huntsville City Schools Launch Cyber Academy; John Gully Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. and the Huntsville, Alabama public school district have jointly launched a cyber educational program under a three-year, $300,000 commitment in an effort to help foster future cyber workers. SAIC and the school system introduced the Cyber Academy initiative at the National Cyber Summit and company cyber professionals will supply cyber curriculum […] More

  • NATO Agency, AFCEA International to Address Euro-Atlantic Security at Estonia Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NATO Agency, AFCEA International to Address Euro-Atlantic Security at Estonia Conference

    Participants from NATO’s communications and information agency and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International will host a conference in Estonia to discuss new strategies to address Euro-Atlantic security and cyber threats. The international event called NITEC will include panel discussions with Estonia’s president Toomas Hendrick Ilves and Adm. Michael Rogers, U.S. Cyber Command director and National Security Agency […] More

  • Raytheon Picks 2 Female College Students to Receive Cybersecurity Scholarship Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Picks 2 Female College Students to Receive Cybersecurity Scholarship Funds

    Raytheon and the (ISC)2 nonprofit organization’s Center for Cyber Safety and Education have selected two female college students for educational grants of up to $10,000 each and paid cybersecurity internships at the company. Nicole Krantz, an incoming freshman at George Mason University this fall, and Catherine McLean, a third-year computer science student at Northeastern University, will receive the scholarship […] More

  • Kroll Drafts 4 New Directors for Cybersecurity & Investigations Group; Tim Ryan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kroll Drafts 4 New Directors for Cybersecurity & Investigations Group; Tim Ryan Comments

    New York-based corporate investigations and risk consulting firm Kroll has named Devon Ackerman, Mari DeGrazia, Ron Dormido and Ray Manna as directors for its cybersecurity and investigations unit. Kroll said Monday the four were appointed as a part of the company’s push to meet demand in cyber investigations and advanced digital forensics services among clients. Tim Ryan, Kroll cybersecurity and […] More

  • DCascades Technologies Appoints Jose Rivera as Corporate Strategy Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DCascades Technologies Appoints Jose Rivera as Corporate Strategy Director

    Cascades Technologies has named Jose Rivera as director of corporate strategy and he will oversee market assessments, business growth strategies and efforts to align the company portfolio with business objectives. CTi said Wednesday Rivera joins the company from Chugach Government Solutions, where he helped develop the company’s cyber portfolio as director of cyber strategy. “Mr. Rivera brings the background and experience to propel us to […] More