Invincea and Cloudburst Security have formed a partnership to provide managed security, integration and professional services offering to customers. Cloudburst will combine its security monitoring and engineering services with the endpoint security technology from Invincea to deliver managed security to small, mid-size and large businesses, Cloudburst said Monday. “We are pleased to partner with Cloudburst […] More

New research says Russian and Chinese hackers involved in the recent data breaches on the White House and health insurer Anthem used the same types of malware to intrude into the two organizations’ computer networks, Nextgov reported Thursday. Aliya Sternstein writes the hackers involved in the two network intrusions used legitimate-looking phishing emails to deliver […] More

Invincea has elected three executives with cyber and national security experience to its advisory board. The company said Monday it named Rand Beers, former acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Dr. Ed Amoroso, senior vice president and chief security officer at AT&T; and Rhett Hernandez, a retired lieutenant general and West Point Cyber chair at the […] More

Norm Laudermilch, former chief information security officer of Verizon‘s Terremark division, has joined Invincea as its first chief operating officer and will report directly to Anup Ghosh, the company’s founder and CEO. “Norm’s proven track record in scaling both security start-ups and mature companies makes him an ideal partner in executing our market disruption strategy for fundamentally changing […] More

Dana Mariano, a professional with over two decades of experience in the cybersecurity sector, has been named as chief financial officer of threat intelligence company LookingGlass Cyber Solutions.

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Fidelis Cybersecurity has added training programs, sales team support and funding opportunities for its global partners. The company said Monday it updated the firm's partner program to offer resellers and distributors the opportunity to help customers adopt cybersecurity technology platforms.

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Galois seeks submissions to two benchmark challenges that work to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s efforts to prevent software reverse engineering. Submissions should describe existing theories or new approaches to identify security vulnerabilities in program obfuscation technology, Galois said Monday. One challenge focuses on order-revealing encryption while the other targets point-function obfuscation, with both security […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has conducted a demonstration to test a network of more than 100 mobile tools designed to detect radioactive materials as part of the SIGMA program. DARPA said Tuesday the pocket-sized detectors developed through the SIGMA program worked to detect the intensity and location of radiation sources during the one-month […] More