Marc Mancher, a principal at Deloitte Consulting, and Alan Balutis, a senior director of North American public sector at Cisco Systems’ business solutions group, have said that agencies should integrate artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies with digital call centers to continuously deliver information and services to the public during the coronavirus pandemic or national emergencies.
Read More »Cisco’s Alan Balutis Suggests Approach to Accelerate Transition to EIS Telecom Contract
Alan Balutis, a Distinguished Fellow and senior director for North American public sector for Cisco Systems’ global strategy and consulting arm, wrote in a FedScoop article published Friday the lack of authority of agency chief information officers could be one of the reasons why agencies are slow to transition to the General Services Administration’s $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract.
Read More »Cisco’s Carl De Groote, Chuck Louisell: Military Should Leverage AI to Sustain Mission Assurance
Carl De Groote and Chuck Louisell of Cisco Systems have said the U.S. military should adopt artificial intelligence, machine learning and in-line data analytics to sustain mission assurance and readiness. De Groote and Louisell wrote in a C4ISRNET opinion piece published Tuesday that the military should supplement such technology platforms …
Read More »Cisco to Help North Carolina Train Veterans in Cybersecurity
Multinational tech firm Cisco Systems is partnering with North Carolina to launch the CyberVetsUSA program to connect the state government with the industry to train veterans for jobs in the cybersecurity field. The office of the governor said Wednesday the company will work with the state’s departments of military and veterans …
Read More »Mitre Names Robert Work to Visiting Fellows Program; Bill LaPlante Quoted
Robert Work, former deputy secretary at the Defense Department, has joined Mitre’s Visiting Fellows Program to offer advice on critical national issues. Bill LaPlante, senior vice president for Mitre’s national security sector, said in a statement published Monday Work brings decades of experience and knowledge to the nonprofit company’s national …
Read More »Executive Spotlight: Interview With Diane Gongaware, VP of U.S. Public Sector Services at Cisco Systems, Inc.
ExecutiveBiz talked with Diane Gongaware, vice president of U.S. Public Sector Services at Cisco Systems, about federal cybersecurity challenges, the government’s progress in adopting the cloud and what products Cisco will be launching soon. “Agencies need an architectural, not piecemeal, approach that will allow them to leverage each area of …
Read More »P&S Market Research: North America’s Government Cloud Revenue to Hit $15B by 2023
A new report by P&S Market Research says the government cloud market in North America is estimated to generate more than $15 billion in revenue by 2023. Increased demand and investments in cloud-based systems from government agencies will drive the projected revenue growth in the region, P&S Market Research said Monday. Key players …
Read More »Mitre Appoints 5 to Visiting Fellows Program
Mitre has appointed five individuals to the nonprofit company’s Visiting Fellows Program that aims to help address complex national problems. The nonprofit said Thursday its newly appointed visiting fellows possess a background in the organization’s strategic focus areas of national defense, cybersecurity and health. Richard Byrne, senior vice president of programs and …
Read More »Maximus Exec Thomas Woteki Appointed to Virginia Tech College of Science Roundtable Advisory Board
Thomas Woteki, senior vice president of technology at Maximus, has been chosen to provide guidance and support as a member of the roundtable advisory board for the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University’s College of Science, the company said Tuesday. The advisory board consists of senior-level professionals who support the Virginia …
Read More »Cisco’s Carl De Groote: Highly Skilled Workforce, Automation Key to DoD’s Cybersecurity
Carl De Groote, senior director for Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems, has said DoD should combine highly skilled cyber professionals with automated technology in efforts to protect its networks and data from cyber attacks and facilitate response to such threats. De Groote wrote in a guest piece for Signal Magazine he believes that automated machines …
Read More »Dell Vet Rola Dagher to Lead Cisco’s Canadian Operations
Rola Dagher, former vice president and general manager of Dell EMC‘s infrastructure solutions group in Canada, has been named president of Cisco Systems‘ Canadian arm. She succeeds Bernadette Wightman and brings more than 25 years of technology and sales leadership experience to her new position, Cisco said Monday. Dagher most recently managed Cisco’s …
Read More »Carl De Groote: Cisco Helps DoD Migrate Joint Regional Security Stacks to Cloud
Carl De Groote, senior director for the Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems, has said the company collaborates with DoD to facilitate the migration of Joint Regional Security Stacks to the cloud, Defense Systems reported Thursday. JRSS is a set of tools designed to detect breaches, provide firewall functions and perform …
Read More »Tech Firms Urge NIST to Include Vulnerability Disclosure Processes in Cybersecurity Framework
A coalition of security companies and advocacy groups has called on the National Institute of Standards and Technology to incorporate best practices on digital vulnerability disclosures into the agency’s updated Cybersecurity Framework, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Joseph Marks writes the consortium urged NIST to add a section on procedures to receive, review and respond to vulnerability reports. …
Read More »Microsoft, Qualcomm Invest in Israel-Based Cybersecurity Incubator Team8
Israel-based cybersecurity startup creator Team8 has secured investments from Microsoft‘s and Qualcomm‘s venture businesses, Reuters reported Monday. Tova Cohen writes that Team8 has raised more than $92 million so far and entered a strategic partnership with Citigroup to develop the former’s products. Team8 was founded by a group of military veterans who also seek to establish two new …
Read More »Research and Markets: Public Safety and Security Market to Grow $456.6B by 2021
Research and Markets has released a new report that predicts the public safety and security market will reach $456.56 billion by 2021 from $247.53 billion in 2016, or a compound annual growth rate of 13 percent. The report cites the rise in criminal activities, natural disaster and cross border terrorism, …
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