Cyber

Local CEO Matthew Desch took over Iridium, based in McLean, Va., 12 years ago and helped the company recover from a troubled past to become the powerhouse that it is today. Under Desch’s leadership, Iridium averaged nine percent growth during the past decade and is operating in a category all …

Mitre has added 137 new entries to an online database of software security weaknesses, Inside Defense reported Monday. Version 3.2 of the Common Weakness Enumeration also includes one “deprecated” item and 534 amended entries, which the nonprofit company attributed to changes in names, relationship, description and references. The community-developed list seeks to provide …

Sharon Pritchard, competition advocate at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, has confirmed the justification of a task order for Leidos under a multiple award contract for technical and cybersecurity services. The company would provide key management infrastructure services under the order as part of the Unrestricted Cyberspace Science, …

David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s North American public sector, has said there are several options the federal government can consider to build up its workforce’s cybersecurity and information technology skills and one of those is to explore open-source training. “The proliferation of open source software has changed the training landscape …

The Department of Health and Human Services has released a four-volume document that outlines 10 industry practices that health care organizations can implement to counter cyber threats. HHS said Friday it collaborated with industry stakeholders through a public-private partnership to come up with the publication “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats …

Some of the trends in the cybersecurity market to watch in 2019 include the availability of identity platforms in the cloud and use of mobile devices in authentication, Security Today reported Wednesday. Organizations aim to supplement application security platforms in the cloud with cloud-based identity and access management systems. The …

The U.S. Army has awarded SOS International a potential five-year, $17M contract for teleconference network, cybersecurity and knowledge management services to the military branch’s Network Enterprise Technology Command. The company said Friday it will support classified and unclassified networks being used at NETCOM’s Arizona headquarters and by subcommand groups worldwide. “This win only …

HackerOne has helped the Department of Defense launch the agency’s seventh bug bounty program, which aims to find security vulnerabilities in the public-facing websites and services of the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it provided its hacker-powered security platform for DoD’s latest Hack the Air Force event, which …

Circadence has integrated a cybersecurity learning and assessment platform with Microsoft‘s Azure cloud computing service. Project Ares is designed to help government, enterprise and academic customers train cyber professionals through cloud-based virtual ranges, Circadence said Thursday. The artificial intelligence-powered training system uses a range-as-a-service model designed to spin up simulated environments and support …

Symantec has found that a new cyber espionage group called Seedworm has started launch cyber attacks on dozens of government agencies, telecommunications, multinational organizations, oil and gas firms and other institutions worldwide since late September. Seedworm, also known as Zagos or Muddywater, collects intelligence data on targets across the Middle …

AbleVets has received a potential three-year, $64.5M task order to provide life cycle network protection services to the Defense Health Agency. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center awarded the order, which contains one base year and two one-year options, under the U.S. Navy‘s SeaPort-e contract vehicle, AbleVets said Tuesday. The company …

LexisNexis Risk Solutions has received a National Institute of Standards and Technology certification from SAFE-BioPharma for its platform designed to detect identity fraud. The NIST SP 800-63A certification at Identity Assurance Level 2 allows LexisNexis Risk Solutions to offer its Risk Defense Platform to federal agencies seeking to implement identity authentication tools …

The Aerospace Industries Association has released a standard aimed at maintaining cybersecurity resilience in the aerospace and defense industries. The risk-based standard complements the Department of Defense‘s existing cybersecurity guidelines and are made to help companies regularly update cyber defenses amid evolving threats, AIA said Thursday. “With aggressive state and non-state cyber actors …

A new report by Accenture shows that many federal agencies still struggle in their efforts to modernize their information technology systems despite the progress they have made as they have yet to adopt new approaches such as cloud computing, digital platforms and agile software development. The company said Monday the government …

Charles River Analytics has filed a patent application for a tool that works to predict cyber attacks and defend networks from security breaches. The Cyber Vaccine platform is designed to help users come up with defense measures against potential attacks before they reach data systems and computers, the company said …