Carl De Groote, senior director for Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems, has said DoD should combine highly skilled cyber professionals with automated technology in efforts to protect its networks and data from cyber attacks and facilitate response to such threats. De Groote wrote in a guest piece for Signal Magazine he believes that automated machines can help combatant commands evaluate […] More

Rola Dagher, former vice president and general manager of Dell EMC‘s infrastructure solutions group in Canada, has been named president of Cisco Systems‘ Canadian arm. She succeeds Bernadette Wightman and brings more than 25 years of technology and sales leadership experience to her new position, Cisco said Monday. Dagher most recently managed Cisco’s portfolio of server, networking, storage and […] More

Carl De Groote, senior director for the Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems, has said the company collaborates with DoD to facilitate the migration of Joint Regional Security Stacks to the cloud, Defense Systems reported Thursday. JRSS is a set of tools designed to detect breaches, provide firewall functions and perform virtual routing and forwarding, enterprise […] More

Mission Ready Services has completed development of a body armor for the U.S. Marine Corps under a contract with the Marine Corps Systems Command. The company said Tuesday that Francisco Martinez, chief technical officer of Mission Ready Services’ Protect The Force subsidiary, led the two-year Marines Next Generation Body Armor project that was funded through the Office of Naval Research’s Rapid Innovation Fund. […] More

Cisco and Thales have forged a strategic partnership to develop a platform that will work to protect data networks and information technology systems from potential cyber attacks. Both companies seek to collaborate with startups and establish their project in France in order to build a cyber tool designed to help critical infrastructure operators detect and counter threats, […] More

Will Ash, Cisco senior director for U.S. public sector security sales, has said integration, consolidation and automation are key to meet the Department of Homeland Security‘s requirements for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Ash wrote in a blog post published Monday that agencies will need technology partners to help meet the program’s continuous monitoring requirements and drive changes such as optimized response […] More

John Chambers, executive chairman and former CEO of Cisco, has joined the board of directors of OpenGov and invested in the latter company’s cloud-based financial intelligence and planning services. OpenGov said Thursday the company seeks to draw on Chambers’ experience in work with local and county governments, special and school districts as well as state and federal public […] More

Cisco will serve as a sponsor for the 2016 International Association of Court Administration regional conference to be held in The Hague, Netherlands, from May 18 to 20. AJ Ramsey, a Cisco marketing manager, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday the event will offer participants an opportunity to learn more about various European legal systems and court […] More

Peter Romness, cybersecurity programs lead for Cisco Systems’ U.S. public sector group, believes a more comprehensive authentication mechanism is needed to fend off sophisticated threats, C4ISR & Networks reported Monday. Romness said authentication must cover more than just a person’s identity, John Edwards and Eve Keiser report. “We need to know who the user is, where […] More

Jonathan Chadwick – formerly executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief operating officer at VMware — has joined the board of directors of Cognizant Technology. Chadwick will also serve on Cognizant’s audit committee and as a board member until the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting later this year, Cognizant said Tuesday. “Jonathan brings a wide range of expertise as […] More

Avnet Government Solutions has added Cisco‘s portfolio of computing, storage and networking technologies for data centers to its General Services Administration schedule contract. Avnet said Wednesday the company and its partner resellers can now offer agencies Cisco platforms designed to manage information technology applications, virtual machines and cloud-based systems. Cisco and Avnet have partnered on multiple data center offerings over the […] More

Cisco and the University of California San Francisco have teamed up to develop a platform designed to achieve interoperability among health information technology systems. UCSF said Wednesday it will set up a center at the university’s Mission Bay campus to collaborate with Cisco and other health technology experts to develop and test the interoperability tool […] More