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    Cyber Startup Team8 Raises $23M in AT&T-Backed Financing Round

    Israel-based cybersecurity startup Team8 has generated $23 million in a second round of financing backed by investors that include AT&T, Accenture, Nokia, Mitsui and Temasek, Fortune reported Tuesday. Robert Hackett writes Team8 raised a total funding of $41 million after the company received $18 million in 2015 in addition to the series B financing. Nadav […] More

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    DHS S&T Awards OTS Contract to Pulzze Systems for Internet of Things Security

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has awarded the first Innovation Other Transaction Solicitation contract worth $200,000 to California-based small business Pulzze Systems to help secure the Internet of Things. The OTS award requires optimization of situational awareness and security of the Internet of Things, including the 16 critical infrastructure sectors tracked by DHS, the department said […] More

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    FAA Plans Cybersecurity Methodology Support Contract Award to Mischel Kwon & Associates

    The Federal Aviation Administration plans to award security consulting firm Mischel Kwon & Associates a single-source contract to continue to provide cybersecurity methodology support services for FAA’s security operations center. FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center said in a Feb. 9 notice posted on FedBizOpps the contract has a base period of six months and three […] More

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    Carahsoft, HPE Among FireEye’s 2015 Global Partner Awardees; David DeWalt Comments

    FireEye has named Carahsoft Technology and Hewlett Packard Enterprise as its 2015 Global Distributor of the Year and Global Alliance Partner of the Year awardees in recognition of their efforts to protect their clients’ network infrastructure from cyber threats. Carahsoft and HPE received their respective awards at FireEye’s Momentum annual partner and sales conference that kicked […] More

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    Northrop’s Ron Foudray: ‘Secure By Design’ Concept Key for Military Tech Resilience

    Ron Foudray, vice president of business development at Northrop Grumman‘s technology services sector, has said he believes that cyber resilience strategies are essential for both kinetic and non-kinetic warfare missions, C4ISR & Networks reported Friday. Amber Corrin writes Northrop has invested in technical efforts to help military customers address security challenges in cyber, missile, unmanned systems. “We have […] More

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    Mark Maybury Named Mitre VP, Chief Security Officer, National Cybersecurity FFRDC Director

    Mark Maybury, a vice president and chief technology officer at Mitre, has been named VP and chief security officer at the non-profit organization. Maybury will also serve as director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center that Mitre runs for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Mitre said Friday. He will oversee partnerships, outreach programs […] More

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    Northrop Grumman Announces 2016 CyberCenturion Competition Finalists

    Northrop Grumman has announced the 10 qualifying teams that will vie for the 2016 CyberCenturion Competition championship. The company said Friday the finalists will face off on April 26 at The National Museum of Computing after they made it through three rounds of cybersecurity challenges in the past four months. Northrop and Cyber Security Challenge U.K. sponsored CyberCenturion 2016, which […] More

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    Retired Navy Rear Adm. Norman Hayes Joins Assured Enterprises Board of Directors

    Norman Hayes, a retired U.S Navy rear admiral and current Dynamic Technology Systems executive vice president for cybersecurity and intelligence, has joined Assured Enterpises‘ board of directors. Hayes has more than 20 years of experience in intelligence analysis, operational intelligence and cybersecurity, Assured said Wednesday. “[We] value his insight into cutting edge techniques for managing insider threats […] More

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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sponsors AFA CyberPatriot Initiative; Earl Matthews Comments

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has joined the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot program as its new Cyber Silver corporate sponsor. CyberPatriot is AFA’s education initiative that aims to improve cyber skills among students and help them pursue careers in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, AFA said Thursday. “We are proud to be the newest CyberPatriot corporate […] More

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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

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    Terry Halvorsen Orders Microsoft Windows 10 Updates on 4M DoD Seats

    Terry Halvorsen, chief information officer of the Defense Department, has committed 4 million seats in the department’s efforts to upgrade its information systems and devices to the Microsoft-built Windows 10 operating system. Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president for Windows and devices group at Microsoft, writes in a blog entry posted Wednesday that the move aims to help DoD […] More

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    ViaSat, DOE Lab Partner for Distributed Grid Security Testing

    ViaSat has helped the U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory assess and implement a cybersecurity testbed for the lab’s distribution grid management system. The company said Tuesday NREL built the DRM testbed to mimic various electric power networks and use cases related to distributed energy sources. “Individual energy utilities can use the empirically validated cybersecurity specifications developed […] More