Cybersecurity

Parsons will help the National Security Agency conduct a virtual competition to test the cybersecurity capabilities of students from service academies and military colleges. The technology company said Wednesday it will develop and manage five modules focused on cryptography, malware, software development, cyber policy and cyber combat for the NSA Cyber Exercise from March 31 […] More

A National Institute of Standards and Technology-run center has partnered with Forescout Technologies to craft new guidance for manufacturing companies to strengthen cybersecurity of operational and information technology assets. The company said it seeks to help manufacturers address integrity risks and protect data in industrial control systems as part of the National Cybersecurity Center of […] More

Fortanix has announced the adoption of its Data Security Manager platform by federal agencies to safeguard sensitive data and mitigate future cyberattacks. Fortanix’s DSM platform uses confidential computing to help government agencies protect data and IP within Trusted Execution Environments and provide them the ability to move and process encrypted data in cloud environments, the […] More

The Cloud Security Alliance has teamed up with CrowdStrike, Zscaler and Okta to launch a new center that seeks to advance best practices, research and education about zero trust. The Zero Trust Advancement Center will provide courses in zero trust strategy and architecture, release research whitepapers, conduct a CloudBytes webinar series and offer the Certificate […] More

Carahsoft Technology will exclusively distribute the cybersecurity software developed by a Broadcom subsidiary to federal, state and local governments and academic institutions in the U.S. Under a new agreement, the Reston, Virginia-headquartered information technology company said Monday it will support Broadcom Software resellers in marketing Symantec security offerings as its Public Sector Cybersecurity Aggregator. Carahsoft […] More

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity have agreed to collaborate on a project to offer free cybersecurity services to U.S. power and water utilities, hospitals and other critical infrastructure entities to help strengthen their defenses against cyberthreats. The companies will work with public sector partners on the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, which will provide a roadmap […] More

Mitre has released a new framework that could be used by the cybersecurity community in planning engagement, deception and denial activities together to protect their systems. The Mitre Engage framework uses information from previous malicious cyber attacks to help chief information security officers, cyber defenders and vendors implement adversary engagement strategies based on historical behavior […] More

Acronis SCS has introduced a suite of cloud-based information technology tools for managed service providers to help public sector customers protect and back up data. The company said Tuesday it designed Cyber Protect Cloud to support government security requirements with data and malware protection, endpoint management and automatic backup features of the new product. More […] More

Darktrace has launched a U.S. federal division to help defense, intelligence, federal civilian agencies and critical infrastructure fortify their defenses against cyberattacks using self-learning artificial intelligence tools. Sally Kenyon Grant, who has over 30 years of government experience, will lead Darktrace Federal as vice president with oversight of programs that support U.S. government agencies’ cybersecurity […] More

Palo Alto Networks has found that threat actors have been using a custom backdoor called SockDetour to target U.S. defense contractors. The company said Thursday SockDetour functions as a backup backdoor in the event that the first backdoor is removed and is hard to detect because it “operates filelessly and socketlessly on compromised Windows servers.” […] More