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Engility has received a potential five-year, $15 million contract to provide cybersecurity architecture and engineering services for the U.S. Navy‘s next-generation frigates. The project marks the first time the Navy will incorporate cybersecurity and network technologies into the core design of naval ships, Engility said Tuesday. Lynn Dugle, Engility CEO, said the Navy partnered with the company to drive […] More
DRT Strategies has received a potential three-year, $4 million contract to help the Agriculture Department‘s Office of Information Security to manage a cybersecurity program. The company said Monday it aims to help USDA comply with Executive Order 13800: Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure and Executive Order Memorandum M-17-25: Reporting Guidance for Executive Order 13800 through […] More
Intel has invested more than $60 million in 15 technology startups through its global investment arm to support the development of cybersecurity, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and autonomous platforms. Intel Capital made investments in companies that develop novel technology platforms across analytics, data capture, data management and information security areas, the company said Thursday. […] More
Cloudera has teamed up with Arcadia Data, Centrify and StreamSets to create a new service that looks to accelerate the deployment of a next-generation cybersecurity hub. Cloudera said Monday that its Cloudera Manager platform will help chief information security officers access the company’s cybersecurity services and associated independent software vendor capacities including analytics, ingestion and […] More
Kaspersky Lab has partnered with PWC, Dassault Systems and Schlumberger to facilitate a cybersecurity talent search program targeted at students and young professionals regardless of security background. The alliance seeks to help address a skills shortage in the information security industry through the Cybersecurity for the Next Generation program, Kaspersky said Friday. Participants will engage in various tasks such […] More
A new report by Agari has found that 90 percent of the 400 government domains the cybersecurity firm monitors were targeted by fraudulent emails from April to October. Agari said Thursday it analyzed at least 1,300 federal agency domains to determine whether they have Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance policies in place and found that […] More
Keoki Jackson, chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, has outlined technology areas where Lockheed plans to invest over the next two to three decades during an Oct. 11 roundtable, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Jackson said the technologies are classified into three categories, including the strategic technology thread areas that cover “anything Lockheed Martin will do… whether from undersea […] More
Leonardo has wrapped up the delivery of a cyber monitoring and response service to multiple NATO locations under an expanded contract. The company said Wednesday it worked with the NATO Communications and Information Agency to deploy the NATO Cyber Incident Response Capability – Full Operational Capability service to approximately 70,000 NATO users. In August 2015, Leonardo received an expansion contract to […] More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with cybersecurity startup CyberX to demonstrate the company’s industrial cybersecurity platform. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will demonstrate the CyberX ICS tool in simulated manufacturing environments with human-machine interfaces, programmable logic controllers and operational technology protocols, the company said Thursday. The effort seeks to create an NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide on how […] More
Cynthia Shelton, director of special program sales for government markets at CenturyLink, is scheduled to speak today, Oct. 19, at the three-day NATO Information Assurance Symposium that kicked off Tuesday in Mons, Belgium. Shelton will serve as a panelist at the annual symposium’s Women in Cybersecurity Forum and discuss her experience in overseeing CenturyLink’s relationship […] More
Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, talked about the Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services contractor’s merger with Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global services business at the Titans breakfast event held Friday in Tysons Corner, Virginia. He discussed at the Northern Virginia Technology Council-hosted event how the transaction has helped Leidos to diversify its portfolio, build […] More
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s new “tailored†baseline process is designed to accelerate security assessments and certification of cloud service providers with software-as-a-service platforms, Cisco‘s Larry Payne wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday. Payne, vice president of public sector sales at Cisco, said the FedRAMP Tailored program seeks to reduce from 125 to 36 the number of security controls […] More
