Cybersecurity

Ariento has secured authorization from the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body to perform cyber readiness assessments of companies looking to pursue contract opportunities with the Department of Defense. The cybersecurity compliance company said Friday it passed the Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center’s level 2 evaluation to become a third-party assessor organization under the […] More

Marianne Bailey, a partner and cybersecurity practice lead at Guidehouse, said organizations should understand the importance of service level agreements when it comes to developing cyber incident response plans that involve third parties, InformationWeek reported Thursday. “When you’re looking for a third-party incident response, and support agreement, you have to know what you, as a […] More

Carahsoft Technology will bring Cofense’s phishing detection and response platforms to federal, state and local government customers through its contract vehicles and reseller partners. Cofense’s PDR platform uses automated technology and crowdsourced intelligence to help organizations mitigate cyberthreats in minutes and protect themselves from phishing, ransomware, malware threats and other cyber vulnerabilities that bypass secure […] More

Mandiant and Interos have partnered in an effort to help enterprise and government customers avoid cyberattacks on supply chain operations through the use of risk intelligence. The two companies seek to introduce an offering that will allow organizations to use data-driven insights from Mandiant’s threat intelligence research and Interos’ software-as-a-service platform for supply chain risk […] More

Microsoft and Tenable have expanded their collaboration to help U.S. federal agencies accelerate the detection, investigation and remediation of cybersecurity threats in accordance with the cybersecurity executive order signed in May 2021. The extended partnership will facilitate the integration of Tenable.io with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender Cloud platforms to “support vulnerability assessments for hybrid […] More

Seventy-two percent of the 100 U.S. defense companies included in a Black Kite analysis have at least one credential that has been compromised within a 90-day period, the cyber risk monitoring company said in its new report. The “Centralizing Supply Chain Cybersecurity: U.S. Federal Government Risk in 2022” report indicates the number of contractors that […] More