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  • Thales e-Security's Wayne Lewandowski: Federal Govt Should Invest in Enterprise Asset Protection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales e-Security’s Wayne Lewandowski: Federal Govt Should Invest in Enterprise Asset Protection

    Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal business at Thales e-Security, has said he believes the U.S. government should shift cybersecurity spending from endpoint or network security to enterprise-wide protection of possible targets such as data. Lewandowski told Federal News Radio in an interview that aired Monday the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report shows cyber budgets increased by 61 […] More

  • Sentar Gets SPAWAR Task Order for Security Engineering, Software Devt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sentar Gets SPAWAR Task Order for Security Engineering, Software Devt Support

    Sentar has secured a five-year, $9.9 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific for security engineering, software development and technical support services. SPAWARSYSCEN PAC awarded the order through the multiple-award Cyberspace Science, Research, Engineering and Technology Integration contract Sentar won a spot on in March, the company said Monday. Sentar will provide […] More

  • INSA Recommends Public-Private Info Sharing Program to Boost Financial Sector Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Recommends Public-Private Info Sharing Program to Boost Financial Sector Cybersecurity

    A new report from the Intelligence and National Security Alliance suggests that real-time exchange of cyber threat data between government and financial institutions can help strengthen the cybersecurity of the U.S. financial sector. INSA said Wednesday its Financial Threats Task Force prepared a position paper that calls for the launch of a classified information sharing initiative based on the […] More

  • Gigamon to Offer Visibility Platform on AWS Govt Cloud; Dennis Reilly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gigamon to Offer Visibility Platform on AWS Govt Cloud; Dennis Reilly Comments

    Gigamon has launched its visibility platform on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud environment to help public sector organizations manage and secure sensitive data and regulated workloads. Gigamon said Tuesday the availability of the Visibility offering builds on the company’s push to offer first-to-market services in the AWS Cloud as well as efforts to achieve a public sector […] More

  • Leidos Unveils Managed Threat Detection Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Unveils Managed Threat Detection Service

    Leidos has launched a managed cybersecurity service offering intended to help security teams detect threats before a breach occurs. The company said Tuesday its Managed Detection and Response service works to identify malicious threats, analyze intrusions and provide intelligence-based actionable guidance to support future prevention efforts. MDR seeks to discover threats at the delivery, exploit, install or command and control stage as well as […] More

  • Delta Risk to Provide Cybersecurity Services via GSA IT Schedule 70 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Delta Risk to Provide Cybersecurity Services via GSA IT Schedule 70

    Delta Risk has secured a potential 20-year contract from the General Services Administration to offer a range of cybersecurity services to federal government agencies via GSA’s Information Technology Schedule 70 procurement vehicle. The company said Tuesday it will provide services under six special item numbers, including the four “highly adaptive” cybersecurity services SINs. Delta Risk was awarded the […] More

  • Honeywell to Establish APAC Cyber Innovation Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell to Establish APAC Cyber Innovation Hub

    Honeywell‘s process solutions business plans to open a facility in Singapore by the end of 2017 to provide managed cybersecurity services intended to help Asia-Pacific customers manage security posture and avoid breaches. The company said Thursday its cybersecurity center of excellence for the APAC region will feature a research-and-development laboratory, a security operations center and a training facility. The lab will […] More

  • Mitre Report Offers Strategies to Build Cyber Info-Sharing Ecosystem - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Report Offers Strategies to Build Cyber Info-Sharing Ecosystem

    Mitre has published a new report that includes multiple strategies on how public and private organizations can establish a national ecosystem to share unclassified cyber information. Bruce Bakis and Edward Wang, respectively a manager and a thought leader at Mitre, wrote in a joint article published Wednesday the “Building a National Cyber Information-Sharing Ecosystem” report contains 11 recommendations […] More

  • DARPA Eyes Cyber Hunting Tools for Enterprise Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes Cyber Hunting Tools for Enterprise Networks

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks proposals for the development of cyber hunting tools that will help boost the defenses of enterprise networks and offer cyber threat characterization, detection and protection capacity. DARPA said in a release published Wednesday on the FedBizOpps website that the agency expects to award multiple procurement contracts for proposals that support four out of […] More

  • Cisco, IBM Forge Alliance to Integrate Cybersecurity Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, IBM Forge Alliance to Integrate Cybersecurity Offerings

    Cisco and IBM have partnered to integrate their cybersecurity offerings and foster collaboration on threat intelligence. IBM said Wednesday Cisco will create new applications for IBM’s QRadar security analytics platform and the first two apps will work to help security teams understand and mitigate advanced threats. The Cisco-made apps will be available on IBM’s Security App Exchange system. IBM will […] More

  • DHS Seeks Info on Data Analysis, Visualization Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Seeks Info on Data Analysis, Visualization Sources

    The Department of Homeland Security wants information on potential sources of data analytics and visualization offerings that could support DHS’ office of cyber and infrastructure analysis. OCIA needs a capability that can help evolve its analytic tools; develop data visualizations, mapping tools and related software applications; and build a research and development framework to launch new platforms, DHS said […] More

  • Verint Systems to Help Latin American Country Establish Govt Security Operations Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verint Systems to Help Latin American Country Establish Govt Security Operations Hub

    Verint Systems is part of an industry consortium that won a multimillion dollar project to establish a government security operations center for a Latin American country to help government organizations address sophisticated cyber threats. The company said Thursday it will provide a threat detection and analysis platform to the future GSOC as a member of the ELTA Systems-led Israeli Cyber Companies Consortium. Noam Rosenfeld, senior […] More