Microsoft has made desktop virtualization service generally available to customers of the Azure Government cloud platform in an effort to help agencies manage remote workload. The Azure Gov Team wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the Windows Virtual Desktop supports a zero-trust approach for securing remote workforce, devices, data and applications.
Read More »Teena Lavu Joins Electrosoft as Civilian Programs VP
Teena Lavu, formerly a senior director at NTT Data Services, has been named vice president of civilian programs at Reston, Virginia-based information technology services provider Electrosoft.
Read More »DISA Approves Citrix App Delivery Product for DoD Info Network
Citrix has received approval from the Defense Information Systems Agency to offer an application delivery controller technology for Department of Defense use in collaboration and communication functions.
Read More »NewSpace Aims to Raise $200M for Space Software Investment
NewSpace Networks plans to generate approximately $200M and intends to use the funds to develop or invest in software-based aerospace technology platforms.
Read More »Former AWS, Microsoft Exec David Kim Named CybelAngel Sales VP for Americas
David Kim, former principal account executive of Amazon Web Services’ Department of Homeland Security programs, has joined data security software developer CybelAngel as vice president of sales for the Americas, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday.
Read More »Stan Black: Citrix Launches Forensic Investigation Into Internal Network Breach
Stan Black, chief security and information officer at Citrix, has said the company was informed by the FBI on Wednesday that international cyber hackers may have accessed and downloaded documents through a tactic that uses weak passwords called password spraying. Black wrote in a blog post published Friday that Citrix has launched a forensic investigation, sought the help of a cybersecurity firm and initiated actions to protect its internal network in response to the incident.
Computerworld: New Zealand Picks Oracle for Govt-Wide Software & Services Contract
Oracle has received a five-year contract to provide software products and support services to New Zealand’s government organizations, Computerworld reported Tuesday. Stuart Corner writes all of the country’s departments and agencies will have access to Oracle software licenses, cloud services and appliances under the agreement. The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs facilitated the …
Read More »AFCEA DC Elects Executive Board Members for 2016-2017; Dean Economou Comments
The Washington-based chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association has elected new members to its executive board for 2016 to 2017 and named Dean Economou, sales director for the Defense Department program at CenturyLink, as president. Nathan Jones, vice president of federal sales at Red Hat, will serve …
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 »Peter Sacripanti, Graham Smith Join Citrix Board; Bob Calderoni Comments
Peter Sacripanti, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, and former Salesforce Chief Financial Officer Graham Smith have joined the board of directors at Citrix. Citrix said Tuesday Sacripanti, chair of the executive committee of McDermott Will & Emery, will serve on the audit and finance committees of Citrix and Smith on the compensation committee. …
Read More »Federal News Radio: Navy Taps 4 Firms to Provide IT Platforms Through Innovation Cell Program
The U.S. Navy has selected Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, VMware, Citrix and Tellabs to provide information technology systems and services for integration with the Navy Marine Corps Intranet as part of the Innovation Cell program, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes the Navy launched the Innovation Cell initiative in March in an …
Read More »Research and Markets: DDoS Mitigation Market to Hit $977M by 2019
A new Research and Markets report predicts the distributed denial-of-service mitigation market revenue will reach $977.2 million by 2019 from $449.5 million in 2014. Research and Markets said Monday the demand for DDoS mitigation services sustains its growth trend as organizations continue to fall prey to this kind of attack. The …
Read More »Citrix’s Faisal Iqbal Outlines Cyber Defense Steps for Agencies
Faisal Iqbal, public sector chief technology officer for Citrix, has outlined a number of steps for government agencies to combat cyber attacks. Iqbal wrote in an opinion piece for Federal News Radio published Tuesday that there is a need for agencies to adopt personal identity verification cards and multifactor authentication through …
Read More »Citrix Poll: Majority of Employees Use Work Devices Without Security Software
A Citrix-commissioned survey says 88 percent of the American workforce use company-issued computers and mobile devices that are not equipped with corporate security software. Wakefield Research polled at least 1,000 people in July and found that more than 60 percent of them lack response plans to address possible data thefts, …
Read More »Executive Profile: Wayne Lewandowski, Area Vice President for Federal at Vormetric
Wayne Lewandowski serves as vice president of sales for U.S. federal clients at Vormetric since January 2013, with responsibility in overseeing the company’s effort to expand cybersecurity platform offerings. He previously served as regional manager of the Defense Department for the Plan B government systems, with partners such as Citrix, …
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