TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 19, 2021 — Sean Berg, most recently a senior vice president at Forcepoint, was promoted as president of global governments and critical infrastructure when investment firm Francisco Partners completed its acquisition of the cybersecurity venture from Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) last week, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 12.

Sean Berg, senior vice president and general manager for global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, has said that organizations should prioritize the monitoring of user perimeters through a zero-trust approach. “With people as the new perimeter, zero trust is a non-negotiable first step for securing newly distributed agency workforces and ensuring users are who they say they are,” Berg wrote in a guest piece for FedScoop.

Sean Berg, executive vice president and general manager of global governments at Forcepoint, has said that the Cyberspace Solarium Commission should consider recommending the use of behavioral analysis in cybersecurity defense operations.

Sean Berg, a senior vice president and general manager at Forcepoint, has said that amid the growing use of cloud and automation in the government, agencies should focus on analyzing how employees interact with data to better secure information.

Forcepoint will provide cybersecurity and cross domain technology platforms to the FBI under a potential five-year, $23.5M blanket purchase agreement.

The Transportation Security Agency's TSA PreCheck screening technology offers the federal government new ways to address growing cyber threats, Sean Berg, senior vice president and general manager at Forcepoint, said in an opinion piece GCN published Thursday.

Genband‘s Application Server and Polycom‘s VVX voice and video portfolio have both achieved a Joint Interoperability Test Command certification from the Defense Information Systems Agency to offer unified communications for U.S. military networks. The application server works to help agencies and departments create secure private clouds and deliver video and voice communications through Polycom-built media …

Sean Berg, vice president for Polycom’s public sector business, has said a “workplace of the future” concept continues to evolve for public sector agencies as mobile device use grows and millennials enter the workforce. Berg told Public Sector View in an interview posted Thursday that one trend he observes is growth in usage …

The Joint Interoperability Test Command has tested a unified communications system that comprises Polycom‘s suite of business media phones and a Genband application server. The companies now await a final certification from JITC to integrate their Local Session Controller technology into the Defense Department‘s communications network, Genband said Monday. “Public sector organizations are …

NATO has approved and deployed Polycom‘s RealPresence Centro tool to support communications and collaboration through its restricted network. The company said Thursday the alliance is the first to deploy the technology, which will become commercially available late this month. “For the agency, this means saving time, resources, working securely from almost anywhere and an …

NATO has selected Polycom to help implement a unified communications and collaboration system at the alliance’s new headquarters currently under construction in Brussels. Polycom said Tuesday it will provide its RealPresence platform for NATO’s active network infrastructure in an effort to help its personnel to conduct video conferences as well as …

Bloomberg Government has named T-Rex Solutions the federal civilian market’s top cloud service provider in a recent report on federal information technology.

Lockheed Martin and its partner Canadian UAVs have jointly demonstrated the capacity of a Lockheed-built quadrotor unmanned aerial system to examine pipeline and well assets as part of a beyond-visual-line-of-sight test flight. The team examined pipelines and wellheads at the Foremost Testing Range in Alberta, Canada, using an Indago 2 drone, Lockheed said Wednesday. The Indago 2 unit used in the …

The Northern Virginia Technology Council has announced the roster of its board of directors for the trade association’s 2015-16 fiscal year. NVTC also announced Tuesday the election of 27 new and returning board members, and 16 three-year-term members to the board. Officers of the board of directors include: Chair: Todd Stottlemyer, …

In a test to evaluate how easy it would be for hackers to social-engineer employees and gain access to computer systems, the Department of Homeland Security found the human factor to be the weakest link in cybersecurity, Bloomberg reports. DHS staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB drives in the …