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Raytheon will combine its managed security services with CyberSponse-made automated incident response and security orchestration tools in an effort to help customers automatically detect and respond to cyber threats. Both companies aim to help current security operations centers gather data and perform incident response actions at a faster rate through the partnership, Raytheon said Tuesday. Mark […] More
Salt Lake City, Utah-based Evernym has received a $749,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Department of Homeland Security to create a decentralized mechanism to manage public and private keys used to deploy blockchain technology. Evernym aims to develop a cryptographic key management system to help bolster online authentication and verification functions through the Applicability […] More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, former IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano and other industry leaders from two nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations have launched an initiative that aims to advance cyber risk management in the private sector. The Center for Global Enterprise and the Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade formed the Cyber Readiness Institute to establish best practices and […] More
Fujitsu has linked its cyber threat intelligence utilization system with the Department of Homeland Security‘s CTI sharing system as part of DHS’ Automated Indicator Sharing program. The connection was established in June and will allow Fujitsu to analyze its own CTI as well as threat information from the AIS program, which involves government and private institutions in U.S. […] More
CSRA has awarded SkyePoint Decisions a five-year, $10 million subcontract to provide cybersecurity support services to the Environmental Protection Agency. SkyePoint said Tuesday it will help the EPA Office of Information Technology Operations to secure virtual and cloud network components as well as consolidate IT infrastructure and management functions under the OITO’s Infrastructure Support and Applications Hosting project. Bo Kimbrough, founder […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton and Splunk have teamed up to offer an analytics-based cybersecurity service designed to help organizations detect and protect networks from potential cyber attacks. The Booz Allen Cyber4Sight for Splunk service offering works to provide threat intelligence data to security analysts through the combination of analytics-based insights from Splunk Enterprise Security platform and […] More
Lockheed Martin has invested $3.9 million to establish a facility in Gloucester, England, that will develop technologies intended to help address cyber-related risks across the U.K. The Cyber Works center is built to support the British government’s National Cybersecurity Strategy and Defense Cyber Program as well as a cyber memorandum understanding signed between the U.K. and U.S., Lockheed said […] More
A Dell Technologies subsidiary has introduced an air gap version of its enterprise endpoint security platform designed to help organizations isolate endpoint devices from the internet and protect such devices from cyber threats. Dell’s Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise offering is an on-premises tool that works to protect data from insider threats, malware and zero-day attacks, the […] More
The Defense Department‘s Rapid Reaction Technology Office will hold an event in October in McLean, Virginia to give selected companies an opportunity to showcase technology platforms in the cyber domain. DoD said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday it may select companies for pilot projects or experimentation during the Solutions Meeting if their technology offerings meet the department’s […] More
A portable digital radiography system developed by Canon USA‘s Virtual Imaging subsidiary has obtained cybersecurity certification under the Defense Department‘s Risk Management Framework program. Canon said Tuesday the certification validates that RadPRO SOLTUS 100M system meets security standards under the RMF program, which seeks to boost information security and promote risk management initiatives across the […] More
Galois has received a $2.7 million contract to help the Office of Naval Research develop methods for the U.S. Navy to increase the resiliency of the service branch’s real-time and embedded military software systems. The company said Monday it seeks to utilize binary rewriting and software brittleness techniques to help the Navy reinforce control systems for cyber […] More
Clearwater Compliance has become a member of a public-private cybersecurity collaboration within the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. The Nashville, Tennessee-based cybersecurity and compliance management provider said Tuesday it will pledge its cyber risk management software, methodology and expertise as a member of NIST’s National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership. “It takes […] More
