General Dynamics’ information technology business held its third annual Cyber Hackathon on July 11 and 12 sponsored by Amazon Web Services and Splunk. This year’s collaborative training exercise, led by GDIT’s Cyber, Cloud and Data & Analytics Communities of Interest, focused on the use of artificial intelligence and machine-learning in the cyber domain, GDIT said […] More

The Air Force Association has announced the 28 teams representing high schools, service academies and middle schools that will compete at the final round of the three-day CyberPatriot X national competition that is set to kick off April 16 in Baltimore, Maryland. AFA said Tuesday the finalists will compete to defend mobile devices and virtual […] More

CSRA has unveiled a new virtual center that seeks to deliver cybersecurity capabilities, innovation and consulting support to government clients. Keith Alexander, a retired U.S. Army general and former National Security Agency director, delivered a keynote speech Thursday during the launch of the company’s Cyber Center of Excellence in Tysons Corner, Virginia, CSRA said Friday. […] More

Carahsoft and its network of resellers will offer Syncsort‘s enterprise data management platform to federal, state and local government agencies as part of a distribution agreement between the two companies. Syncsort said Monday its Ironstream platform is designed to work with Splunk‘s  Enterprise software and help users manage data as well as comply with government regulations such […] More

Carahsoft Technology will offer an Optensity application to the government sector via the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 contract vehicle in an effort to help agencies orchestrate incident response and recovery measures for infrastructure and cyber operations. Optensity developed its >rapid response for Splunk app for users to compose custom alert actions meant to facilitate system-wide incident response strategies without the need for […] More

Leidos will continue to sponsor the Air Force Association’s cyber education program for the eighth consecutive year. AFA said Monday Leidos has supported CyberPatriot as a Cyber Silver sponsor since the program’s inception in 2009 to help develop students’ cyber skills and interest in science, technology, engineering and math careers. “We at Leidos are very proud of our founding […] More

Haiyan Song, Splunk vice president of security markets, said more organizations will adopt adaptive response, behavioral analytics and machine learning strategies to automate response, retrieval and sharing in multivendor environments. Song wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday machine learning-based systems will increase in 2017 as government and industry organizations look to respond threats such as […] More

Carahsoft has agreed to serve as the master government aggregator of Qmulos‘ security compliance applications and offer the tools to government clients via two different contract vehicles run by the General Services Administration and NASA. Qmulos said Tuesday its Q-Audit and Q-Compliance apps are designed to give users real-time visibility into management, operational and technical controls for information technology risk management, security and compliance monitoring programs. Carahsoft will help Qmulos market the Splunk-powered […] More

Lockheed Martin will work with LogRhythm on cybersecurity systems integration pilot programs after the latter signed up for the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. LogRhythm also agreed to offer its security intelligence platform and share cybersecurity-focused best practices with Lockheed as a member of the alliance, Lockheed said Monday. The LogRhythm-built security intelligence tool works to […] More

Peter Sacripanti, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, and former Salesforce Chief Financial Officer Graham Smith have joined the board of directors at Citrix. Citrix said Tuesday Sacripanti, chair of the executive committee of McDermott Will & Emery, will serve on the audit and finance committees of Citrix and Smith on the compensation committee. “Both are highly accomplished business […] More

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has introduced a new group that will aim to facilitate collaboration between the industry and government on cybersecurity practices and policies. The Chamber said Tuesday the Cybersecurity Leadership Council will promote additional discussions between commercial enterprises and policymakers. [W]e need to focus on mitigation of cyber risks through cross-sector information sharing efforts, […] More

Michael Shrader leads the intelligence and innovative solutions business unit at Carahsoft as a vice president for the Reston, Va.-based technology product reseller. He previously spoke to ExecutiveBiz in February 2013 for a wide-ranging discussion on his company’s partnership with Splunk to offer data analytics software in the public sector and Carahsoft’s work to help its partners market […] More