GrammaTech has named industry veterans Mike Armistead, senior vice president at FireEye, and Jim Routh, former chief security officer at Aetna, to join the board of directors of the Bethesda, Maryland-based application testing technology provider.
Read More »Inova Health System Creates Investment Arm, Accelerator Program in Care Optimization Push
Falls Church, Virginia-based nonprofit healthcare provider Inova Health System has launched an investment unit and an accelerator program in a push to optimize care quality at the organization and in the region. Inova Strategic Investments will invest in healthcare venture funds and in companies that align with Inova’s strategic priorities such as advanced analytics, clinical …
Read More »Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance
Lockheed Martin will work with LogRhythm on cybersecurity systems integration pilot programs after the latter signed up for the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. LogRhythm also agreed to offer its security intelligence platform and share cybersecurity-focused best practices with Lockheed as a member of the alliance, Lockheed said Monday. The LogRhythm-built …
Read More »Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments
Lockheed Martin has introduced Solutionary to the former company’s cybersecurity alliance in an effort to help bolster initiatives to combat cyber attacks. Solutionary, an NTT group security company, provides managed security, professional security and global threat intelligence services for information technology infrastructures, cloud environments and mobile data, Lockheed said Thursday. Angie …
Read More »Authentic8 Expands into Federal Market, Hires Glen Sharlun as Federal Operations Chief
Glen Sharlun, formerly a federal sales executive at ArcSight and Hewlett-Packard, has joined Authentic8, provider of the cloud-based browser Silo, as head of federal operations. Sharlun’s appointment is part of the company’s efforts to expand into the federal market, Authentic8 said Thursday. “Government employees, perhaps more than employees of commercial …
Read More »Mercedes Westcott on Cloudera’s Hadoop Focus, How to Advance Big Data in Gov’t
Mercedes Westcott leads the public sector business at software development company Cloudera in her vice president role there. Her GovCon career includes stops at Delphix as that company’s public sector VP and VP of security software at HP Enterprise Services, which she joined upon that company’s buy of ArcSight. In this conversation with …
Read More »Executive Profile: Mercedes Westcott, Cloudera Public Sector VP
Mercedes Westcott serves as vice president of public sector at Cloudera and also is a member of the federal advisory board at Threatstream. Prior to Cloudera, Westcott was vice president of public sector at Delphix. Westcott is also a former vice president at HP Enterprise Security Software, which she joined through HP’s acquisition of ArcSight, …
Read More »CSC Opens Security Operations Center in Australia; Gordon Archibald Comments
CSC has opened a new security operations center in Sydney’s Macquarie Park to deliver IT security defense offerings supported by the company’s investment in HP‘s ArcSight security information and event management tool, CSO reported Tuesday. David Braue writes the opening of CSC’s fifth global SOC site, located near its Australian office, also included …
Read More »HP Autonomy Unveils IDOL 10.5 for New Analytics Needs
HP Autonomy has released a new version of its HP IDOL information processing tool that is designed to integrate with other components of the HAVEn big data platform to address the increasing number of analytics applications in businesses. The company said Thursday HP IDOL 10.5 will operate with a combination …
Read More »HP to Support Ohio Medicaid System Upgrade; Susan Arthur Comments
Hewlett-Packard‘s Enterprise Services division has received a potential eight-year, $180 million contract to upgrade Ohio’s Medicaid Information Technology System in order to comply with government policy changes and other state requirements. Ohio’s Department of Medicaid requires HP to resume managing MITS as the company plans to address scalability and stability …
Read More »HP Security Platform to Protect Healthcare Facility Clinical Data
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s security platform has been selected by Lake Health, a system of hospitals and health care facilities, to boost information security structure and reduce system downtime. Lake Health has implemented the HP ArcSight security information and event management platform that works to provide a centralized view on the organization's …
Read More »HP Rolls Technologies Into Single Data Analysis Platform
Hewlett-Packard has debuted a new big data management tool with the aim of combining recently acquired analytics products and services into a single platform, ZDNet reported Tuesday. Larry Dignan writes that HP unveiled HAVEn at its Discover conference in Las Vegas, an offering designed to bundle HP’s Autonomy, Vertica, Operations Management, …
Read More »HP Announces New Cloud, Mobile Enterprise Security Technology; Prescott Winter Comments
Hewlett-Packard announced that it has expanded its enterprise security solutions portfolio to better address threats and potential liabilities from the rise of new technologies and social media. HP said that executives are demanding better security measures and cited a survey that found more than 50 percent of senior business and technology …
Read More »Narus, ArcSight Co-Host Cybersecurity Webinar on Best Practices, Mitigating APTs
Boeing subsidiary Narus, Inc. will co-host a webinar this week with ArcSight, an HP company, that will discuss best practices and how to better respond to cyber threats. The “Detecting and Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats in the Fast-Moving Cyber World” webinar will feature a panel of three cybersecurity professionals: Neil …
Read More »Kelly Collins of Fortify Software: Possible Creation of Cyber Weapon 'Significant Concern'
President of Fortify Software Public Sector, an HP company, Kelly Collins has a mantra for software security: Find, fix and (from the title of her firm) fortify. For too long, software security assurance has slipped under the radar. But now, Collins said the government is beginning to move to patch …
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