The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has issued a request for information on potential industry sources to support the museum’s information systems security programs. A sources sought notice posted Sept. 20 on FedBizOpps stated the looks to contract with an IT security company to develop, manage and implement security controls across the facility as well as create a toolset or an […] More

Mountain View, California-based consumer electronics company Moov has registered to become an official government contractor and will offer the company’s patented wearable fitness device in the public sector. The company said Friday its Moov device is built to coach users in running, cycling, swimming and cardio boxing exercises plus a 7-minute body weight circuit workout. “Having worked with the [Army Reserves], professional […] 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

A survey from Intel’s security business says 42 percent of security professionals have adopted shared cyber threat intelligence in an effort to protect their companies’ networks from potential cyber attacks. Intel Security polled 500 security professionals across different industries in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific in 2015 about their knowledge of CTI and its advantages to […] More

Siemens has unveiled three Cyber Security Operations Centers located in Milford, Ohio, in the U.S. and in Lisbon, Portugal, and Munich, Germany, for industrial facilities protection. The CSOCs will house industry security specialists tasked to monitor facilities around the globe for cyber threats, send out warnings to companies regarding incidents and coordinate possible countermeasures, Siemens said […] More

Intel Security and DLT Solutions have formed an alliance that seeks to bolster the two companies’ cybersecurity support to federal partners. Intel said Tuesday the terms of the partnership includes the development of a cyber lab in the DLT Innovation Center which will be designed as a physical and virtual showcase of cybersecurity services. Ken Kartsen, Intel vice president […] 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

Research and Markets has launched a market report entitled Global Cloud Security Market 2016-2020 which lists five key vendors in cloud security and predicts a compound annual growth rate of 20.91 percent during the covered period. The company announced Friday the contents of the new report and named Cisco, IBM, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro as the five top cloud security vendors. […] More

A new Technavio report predicts the global network security market will grow 7.84 percent year over year through 2019 on increases in use of mobile devices. The report compares products and features for market vendors and discusses what drives and inhibits the market, Technavio said Thursday. Technavio also described the market as fragmented due to the presence […] More

A new report from Intel predicts that cyber threat actors will likely cause attacks on firmware and hardware, wearable devices that store personal data, cloud services as well as automobile systems in 2016. The McAfee Labs Threat Predictions Report also forecasts the growth of ransomware driven by the adoption of ransomware-as-a-service offerings by cybercriminals and the launch of an […] More

Intel Security has renewed its strategy to focus on integrated and open security system in an effort to help customers combat cyber attacks. The new corporate strategy is intended to bolster endpoint and cloud security systems by unifying the threat defense lifecycle, Intel said Tuesday. “The rising volume and complexity of attacks present a vicious cycle […] More

Intel has decided to stop offering its portfolio of McAfee software-as-a-service email security and archiving platforms by Jan. 11, 2016, TechWeekEurope UK reported Friday. Tom Jowitt writes the company’s security unit will continue to provide support services for Email Archiving, Encryption and Protection & Continuity products through Jan. 11, 2019. Intel also set Jan. 11, […] More