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  • Fugue Wins Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award; Phillip Merrick Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fugue Wins Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award; Phillip Merrick Quoted

    Fugue has received a Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award in the infrastructure-as-a-service category. The company said Wednesday it was given the award as recognition for its products that readily determine the existence of anomalous content in a cloud infrastructure, like a policy violation, an unauthorized transaction or a misconfiguration, and address the problem as it happens. “As […] More

  • American Systems to Build Air Force's Emergency Notification Platform; Peter Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    American Systems to Build Air Force’s Emergency Notification Platform; Peter Smith Comments

    American Systems has won a potential five-year, $68.6 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force develop and implement a emergency mass notification system. The company said Tuesday it will build a cloud-based enterprise EMNS infrastructure for the service branch’s personnel to receive alerts in the event of a critical situation. “We are honored to have […] More

  • BlackBerry to Donate Crisis Communication Tech for American Red Cross Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry to Donate Crisis Communication Tech for American Red Cross Missions

    Blackberry has extended a partnership with the American Red Cross to continue support for the nonprofit organization’s disaster response missions with a company-made emergency communication platform. Red Cross plans to deploy the AtHoc system to almost 500 branches nationwide as part of efforts to facilitate communications between the organization and its staff members, government agencies and volunteers in […] More

  • BlackBerry Unveils Multi-Platform Encryption Tool for Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry Unveils Multi-Platform Encryption Tool for Govt Clients

    BlackBerry has added a new multi-platform encryption tool to the mobile technology firm’s portfolio of cybersecurity offerings designed for the public sector. SecuSUITE for Government is certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership as a voice platform that can support smartphones and tablets with Android, BlackBerry 10 and iOS operating systems, BlackBerry said Thursday. The company added that SecuSUITE […] More

  • BlackBerry's Crisis Comm Platform Gets FedRAMP Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry’s Crisis Comm Platform Gets FedRAMP Certification

    BlackBerry has obtained certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide its cloud-based crisis communication service to federal agencies. The company said Tuesday its AtHoc software-as-a-service offering received FedRAMP authorization through the sponsorship of the Federal Aviation Administration. The U.S. Army also granted AtHoc a certificate of networthiness and authority to operate  in August 2016 to support the […] More

  • John Chen: BlackBerry-Giuliani Partners Alliance to Offer Cybersecurity Products, Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Chen: BlackBerry-Giuliani Partners Alliance to Offer Cybersecurity Products, Services

    BlackBerry has partnered with Giuliani Partners to offer technology platforms and services that will work to help government and enterprise clients protect data and infrastructure against security breaches. BlackBerry said Thursday its Secure mobile security platform will be the underlying software for Giuliani Partners’ cybersecurity consulting services as part of the partnership. Giuliani Partners seeks to help customers evaluate infrastructure assets, identify potential cybersecurity […] More

  • BlackBerry, Zimperium Combine Mobile Threat Protection Offerings; Dave Kleidermacher, Shridhar Mittal Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry, Zimperium Combine Mobile Threat Protection Offerings; Dave Kleidermacher, Shridhar Mittal Comment

    BlackBerry and Zimperium have partnered to integrate the companies’ mobile security platforms in an effort to help government and other enterprise customers protect Android and iOS devices against threats. Zimperium combined its zIPS mobile threat management technology with BlackBerry’s BES12 mobile device management software and Good Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform as part of the partnership, the companies said Wednesday. Shridhar Mittal, CEO of Zimperium, said […] More

  • MobileGuard to Offer Messaging Security Tools Via immixGroup's Schedule 70, SEWP Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MobileGuard to Offer Messaging Security Tools Via immixGroup’s Schedule 70, SEWP Contracts

    MobileGuard‘s mobile communications compliance products have been added to immixGroup‘s offerings to the federal sector under the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solution for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract vehicle. MobileGuard said Tuesday its platforms will work to help customer agencies  capture, monitor, archive and analyze text and SMS communications across all mobile operating systems such as iOS and Android. The […] More

  • BlackBerry Crisis Comms Software Receives Army Authority to Operate, Certificate of Networthiness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry Crisis Comms Software Receives Army Authority to Operate, Certificate of Networthiness

    The U.S. Army has awarded BlackBerry‘s AtHoc networked crisis communications software a certificate of networthiness and authority to operate through April 2019 to support uninterrupted use of the software by the service branch. BlackBerry said Wednesday the software works to relay information to soldiers and other personnel and coordinate rapid responses during emergencies such as accidents, severe weather, natural […] More

  • IBA Unveils Cloud-Based Mobile App Delivery Platform for Federal Gov't - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBA Unveils Cloud-Based Mobile App Delivery Platform for Federal Gov’t

    Irving Burton Associates has unveiled a cloud-based service that is built on open source technology and designed to accelerate the delivery of native, hybrid and web-based mobile applications. The Federal Mobile Services Platform works to supply rapid prototypes to Android, iOS, Windows and BlackBerry devices and comply with federal customer security requirements and policies, IBA said Thursday. Cleveland Cooke, IBA’s […] More

  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Seeks Feedback on Technical Requirements of Cloud Migration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Seeks Feedback on Technical Requirements of Cloud Migration

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has requested information on potential industry sources of cloud-based technology platforms as CFPB plans to migrate its data workloads to the cloud in fiscal year 2017. In a FedBizOpps sources sought notice posted Tuesday, CFPB asked interested vendors to provide feedback on the cost, timeline and technical requirements of its planned cloud adoption. The […] More