Petko Stoyanov, chief technology officer for the global government business at Forcepoint, has said federal information technology leaders should consider adopting a future-focused cloud computing approach that would give them visibility into an IT environment, protect data and analyze user behavior.
Read More »Forcepoint’s Sean Berg: Agencies Should Consider User-Focused Approach to Zero Trust
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.
Read More »Forcepoint's Nicolas Fischbach: User Activity Monitoring Could Help Agencies Protect Data
Nicolas Fischbach, global chief technology officer at Forcepoint, wrote in a guest piece published Friday on Nextgov that government agencies should prioritize data visibility and data loss prevention as they head into 2021. He said agencies should determine how employees and other users interact with government data through user activity monitoring with the aid of behavioral analytics to better detect compromised accounts and malicious actors.
Read More »Forcepoint’s Petko Stoyanov: Agencies Should Enable Behavioral Analytics as Part of Zero Trust Journey
Petko Stoyanov, chief technology officer for global governments at Forcepoint, wrote in an opinion piece published Monday on C4ISRNET that federal agencies looking to implement a zero trust architecture should enable behavioral analytics by consolidating identity platforms.
Read More »Forcepoint’s Homayun Yaqub on Five Steps Organizations Can Take to Protect Against Ransomware
Homayun Yaqub, senior security strategist at Forcepoint, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that there are five measures organizations can consider to protect against ransomware attacks and one is creating a ransomware incident playbook
Read More »Forcepoint's Matt Moynahan on Data Protection, Cyber Experience Center
Forcepoint CEO Matt Moynahan told CRN in an interview published Monday that he thinks data protection is the “greatest underrepresented opportunity“ in the field of cybersecurity.
Read More »NTT Data to Sell GDS360 Information Protection, Data Security Tech to Public Sector Clients
NTT Data will offer GDS360-built information protection and data security platforms to the former’s public sector client base as part of a multi-year teaming agreement. GDS360 said Wednesday its end-to-end products combine elements such as zero-knowledge encryption key management, user identity management, behavioral analytics and access audits to help clients meet …
Read More »NIST to Demo CyberX Industrial Cybersecurity Platform
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with cybersecurity startup CyberX to demonstrate the company’s industrial cybersecurity platform. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will demonstrate the CyberX ICS tool in simulated manufacturing environments with human-machine interfaces, programmable logic controllers and operational technology protocols, the company said Thursday. The effort seeks to create an NIST …
Read More »Verint Systems to Help Latin American Country Establish Govt Security Operations Hub
Verint Systems is part of an industry consortium that won a multimillion dollar project to establish a government security operations center for a Latin American country to help government organizations address sophisticated cyber threats. The company said Thursday it will provide a threat detection and analysis platform to the future GSOC as a member of the ELTA Systems-led Israeli Cyber …
Read More »Haiyan Song: Organizations will Integrate Machine Learning Tech to Automate Data Breach Response
Haiyan Song, Splunk vice president of security markets, said more organizations will adopt adaptive response, behavioral analytics and machine learning strategies to automate response, retrieval and sharing in multivendor environments. Song wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday machine learning-based systems will increase in 2017 as government and industry organizations look …
Read More »OGSystems, TransVoyant Form Predictive Analytics Tech Partnership
TransVoyant and OGSystems have partnered to integrate a predictive analytics tool with OGSystems’ platform that works to help customers gain situational awareness as well as receive anomaly alerts and reports on operational risks. The partnership aims to add TransVoyant’s Precise Predictive Intelligence system to the BlueGlass platform OGSystems designed to generate real-time insights through remote sensing, big …
Read More »DLT, Sqrrl Form Threat Detection and Response Platform Partnership; Alan Marc Smith Comments
DLT Solutions and Sqrrl have formed a partnership to provide government agencies with a threat detection and response platform. The Sqrrl Enterprise platform works to target and disrupt cyber threats through the use of user and entity behavior analytics, DLT said Tuesday. “Recent cyber incidents teach us that advanced cyber adversaries will be able …
Read More »Cloudera's Webster Mudge Outlines Data Defense Steps
Webster Mudge, senior director for technology solutions at Cloudera, has recommended a series of steps for government agencies to mitigate the risk of cyber attacks and prevent data theft. Mudge wrote in an opinion piece for Federal News Radio published Monday that agencies must adopt a risk management framework to align people …
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