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  • Fortinet Forecasts 2017 Cybersecurity Trends in Cloud, Internet of Things - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fortinet Forecasts 2017 Cybersecurity Trends in Cloud, Internet of Things

    Fortinet predicts cyber threat actors to exploit approximately 20 billion internet of things-based endpoint devices in order to perform attacks on cloud environments as well as obtain money from victims through ransomware in 2017. The threat research team under the company’s FortiGuard Labs expects consumers, vendors and industry groups to call for the implementation of security […] More

  • Veritas Updates Cloud-Based Data Archiving Platform for Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veritas Updates Cloud-Based Data Archiving Platform for Govt Clients

    Veritas Technologies has launched a new version of its software-as-a-service data archiving platform for government customers to manage email records electronically. Enterprise Vault 12.1 is designed to help federal agencies comply with the Managing Government Records Directive as well as support the National Archives and Records Administration‘s Capstone approach for email management, Veritas said Wednesday. “Our federal customers […] More

  • CSRA Secures $52M DHS Technical & Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Secures $52M DHS Technical & Program Support Contract

    CSRA has won a four-year, $52 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications to perform a range of technical and program support services. The company said Monday it will aid in DHS’ efforts to optimize the security, resiliency and reliability of U.S. cyber and communications infrastructure under the recompeted contract. Sally Sullivan, executive […] More

  • Authentic8 Updates Virtual Browser to Accommodate Govt-Issued Common Access Cards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Authentic8 Updates Virtual Browser to Accommodate Govt-Issued Common Access Cards

    Authentic8 has updated its virtual browser to validate users with government-issued common access cards in efforts to help address federal customers’ demand for added CAC functionality. The company said Thursday its Silo virtual browser will be configured with the Defense Department‘s public certificates. “Support for CAC authentication ranked high on our customers’ list of requested enhancements,” said Authentic8 co-founder and […] More

  • Qualys' Cloud Platform Receives FedRAMP Authority-to-Operate From HHS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualys’ Cloud Platform Receives FedRAMP Authority-to-Operate From HHS

    Qualys‘ cloud platform has received an authority-to-operate from the Department of Health and Human Services under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program as the company seeks to expand its footprint in federal civilian agencies. The company said Thursday the Qualys Cloud Platform provides more than 9,200 organizations an integrated suite to support asset discovery, compliance monitoring, network security, […] More

  • Cubic Subsidiary, Microsoft Partner for Global Smart City Tech Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Subsidiary, Microsoft Partner for Global Smart City Tech Initiative

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business supports a Microsoft-led global campaign to help government agencies, businesses and citizens build “vibrant” communities with technology. The CityNext program aims to combine technologies and other systems in efforts to connect the public sector, industry and people through services intended to facilitate development of sustainable environment for communities, Cubic said Thursday. “Cubic and Microsoft have […] More

  • Mark Scallion on SAP Public Services' Analytics Work With Civilian Agencies, How Agencies Can 'Re-Imagine' IT - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Scallion on SAP Public Services’ Analytics Work With Civilian Agencies, How Agencies Can ‘Re-Imagine’ IT

    Mark Scallion leads the federal civilian business as a vice president for SAP Public Services, a subsidiary of the global technology services conglomerate that focuses on work with government agencies in areas such as electronic government and shared services. A two-decade industry veteran, Scallion led SAP Public Services’ Defense Department organization for three years prior to his current role and […] More

  • GSA Selects Distributed Solutions for Contract Writing-as-a-Service BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Selects Distributed Solutions for Contract Writing-as-a-Service BPA

    Distributed Solutions Inc. has secured a potential $10.5 million blanket purchase agreement from the integrated technology services branch of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service to develop a contract writing system-as-a-service platform for GSA and its customer agencies. DSI said Wednesday the agreement calls for the company to provide a software-as-a-service, cloud-based enterprise-grade system for government […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer Palo Alto Networks IT Security Platform in Federal Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Offer Palo Alto Networks IT Security Platform in Federal Market

    Carahsoft will act as a federal government market distributor of Palo Alto Networks‘ information technology security platform that works to prevent threats and implement protective measures throughout an attack lifecycle. Palo Alto Networks built its Next-Generation Security Platform is designed to utilize network, cloud and endpoint security to offer full visibility and control functions for IT departments, Carahsoft […] More

  • Bitnami to Include Code Dx App Vulnerability Correlation & Mgmt Tool on Microsoft's Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bitnami to Include Code Dx App Vulnerability Correlation & Mgmt Tool on Microsoft’s Azure Govt Cloud

    Bitnami has selected Code Dx‘s application vulnerability correlation and management tool as one of the first applications to be added on Microsoft‘s Azure Government Cloud marketplace. Code Dx said Wednesday government organizations can deploy the application vulnerability correlation and management system via Bitnami for evaluations, product installations and future updates. “Government organizations are looking for applications that […] More

  • CGI Awarded GAO Financial Mgmt System Cloud Migration Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Awarded GAO Financial Mgmt System Cloud Migration Contract

    CGI has received a potential five-year, $7.2 million contract to help the Government Accountability Office transition GAO’s financial management, budgeting and procurement systems to a cloud infrastructure. The company said Wednesday it will use the Momentum enterprise platform within the Legislative Branch Financial Management System shared services environment to support GAO’s cloud migration effort. Momentum is part of the government’s […] More

  • Octo Consulting to Support GSA Award Mgmt Platform Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting to Support GSA Award Mgmt Platform Modernization Effort

    The General Services Administration has awarded Octo Consulting a potential five-year, multimillion dollar task order to help GSA modernize a technology platform for agency personnel to manage federal financial assistance services, contracts and intergovernmental transactions. Octo Consulting said Wednesday it will provide development, testing, information security, training, and user support services for the Integrated Award Environment  program. The […] More