Amy Johanek, a nearly 15-year IBM veteran and a project management professional, has joined data analytics company Splunk as regional sales director for the public sector, FedHealthIT reported Thursday.

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John Zangardi, president of data science company Redhorse and former chief information officer at the Department of Homeland Security, has joined the technical and strategic advisory board of Portland-based access management technology maker Acceptto.

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Donald Fenhagen and Thomas Bruno, executives at IBM and Accenture’s federal business, respectively, have joined the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council’s board of directors to each serve on three-year terms.

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Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, spoke to ExecutiveBiz regarding the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s recently released Trusted Internet Connection 3.0 Interim Telework Guidance and how it will assist with the public sector’s remote work.

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Patrick Perry, director of emerging technology for federal, defense and intelligence community at Zscaler, wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on Fifth Domain that the Department of Defense should strike a balance between security and operations as it moves its workforce to a teleworking environment. He said DoD should shift its focus from network security to data security to support teleworking and manage large data volumes and increasing bandwidth requirements.

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Jennifer Stone, former senior manager of defense and veterans health strategy at Accenture's federal services business, has been named vice president of growth for veterans and defense health at GovernmentCIO.

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Cybil Parker, former director of sales at Copper River Information Technology, has joined Impres Technology Solutions to serve as vice president and general manager of the firm’s civilian segment, G2Xchange ETC reported Thursday.

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BlackBerry has introduced an enterprise endpoint security platform designed to help customers detect and counter cyber threats to mobile devices.

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Terence Di Benigno, formerly a vice president at Maximus, has been named senior vice president of business development at Unissant.

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The top 10 cybersecurity firms to watch in 2019 reflect the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics and other technologies to help speed up cyber threat detection and response to such threats, Forbes reported Sunday.

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Kevin Neifert, chief information officer at Raytheon, has said information technology organizations should find opportunities for technology to supplement the business strategy, CIODIVE reported Friday. “We need to be delivering and following through all the way to the bottom line,” he said Thursday at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla. He noted that the company […] More

John McCumber, former director of Gartner‘s security and risk management consulting practice, has been named director of cybersecurity advocacy at The International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)2. He will oversee (ISC)2’s partnership with government, academic and commercial organizations in efforts to promote public-private collaboration, cybersecurity curriculum and legislation designed to help address critical security […] More