Level 3 Communications has predicted the technology trends the federal government will likely face in 2014 amid growing requirements for data and communications information management. Government technology leaders will need to take into consideration the demands for security, collaboration, mobility and business continuity when making decisions, Level 3 said Thursday in a blog post. Edward Morche, senior […] More

Microsoft has released a white paper that proposes privacy and security best practices for corporate employees who use their own mobile devices in the workplace. The company says organizations should develop policies to stop botnets and spyware from entering their enterprise information technology networks. A global survey by Gartner Research found 88 percent of executives said […] More

Mitre Engenuity, a technology foundation under the not-for-profit organization Mitre, has published the results of emulated attacks by Russian cyber threat group Turla on 30 enterprise cybersecurity platforms. The latest edition of the ATT&CK Evaluations program sought to determine how Turla uses in-memory or kernel implants to evade detection and linger with a minimal footprint. More

Alex Whitworth, cybersecurity solutions vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, discussed the ransomware attacks on health care organizations and utilities that information technology administrators should understand as they assess the cybersecurity posture of their organizations and implement measures to protect their networks from such attacks. Whitworth wrote in a blog post published Monday that ransomware attacks […] More

Mitre Engenuity has released the results of its assessment of 16 security service providers and their capabilities to analyze the behavior of a cyberthreat actor as part of the ATT&CK Evaluations program. The Evals program’s purple team assessed the companies using the Mitre ATT&CK knowledge base of cyber adversary behavior to emulate the techniques and […] More

A new Information Services Group report has found that U.S. state and local government agencies and related public sector organizations recognize the need to modernize their information technology systems and advance cybersecurity to meet the increasing demand for online services and remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ISG said Thursday the report showed […] More

Amazon Web Services and Splunk have initiated a project with 15 other technology companies to develop a common framework for standardizing cybersecurity data formats. Splunk said Wednesday the consortium aims to simplify taxonomy meant to help security professionals accelerate the process of ingesting and analyzing data through the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework. The initiative builds […] More

Mitre has issued the results of its assessments of cybersecurity platforms from 21 companies to help industry and government agencies improve their capabilities to detect and combat cyber threats. Mitre evaluated the cyber offerings using its ATT&CK knowledge base to emulate the techniques used by APT29, a cyber threat group believed to be related to the Russian government, the nonprofit corporation said Tuesday.

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Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new program that seeks to help independent software vendors secure authority-to-operate certifications through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and other compliance programs. The ATO on AWS initiative aims to provide ISVs with tools, training, control implementation details and CloudFormation templates as well as guidance from the company’s […] More

Frank Mong, former senior vice president of product, industry and solutions at Palo Alto Networks, has been appointed chief marketing officer at Santa Clara, California-based open data technology provider Hortonworks. Mong will oversee Hortonworks’ global marketing strategy to build on the company’s growth efforts, according to a May 22 press release. Raj Verma, president and chief operating officer of Hortonworks, said […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that forecasts a 39.44% compound annual growth rate for the global healthcare Internet of Things security market from 2016 through 2022. The “Global Healthcare IOT Security Market: Focus on Solutions, Services, and Geography – Estimation & Forecast, 2016-2022” estimates the market reached $4.74 billion in 2015 and will […] More

Technavio has compiled a list of the leading vendors in the company’s global data loss prevention applications market report projected to make an impact in a forecast period of 2015 to 2019. The top five companies in the list are EMC, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and Websense that are expected to deliver systems that can provide notifications to users during data […] More