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Guidehouse’s Marianne Bailey: Organizations Need Strong SLAs as Part of Incident Response Plans

Marianne Bailey, a partner and cybersecurity practice lead at Guidehouse, said organizations should understand the importance of service level agreements when it comes to developing cyber incident response plans that involve third parties, InformationWeek reported Thursday. “When you’re looking for a third-party incident response, and support agreement, you have to know what you, as a […] More

by Jane Edwards June 24, 2022, 11:59 am
in Cybersecurity, News

Microsoft Launches New Line of Managed Security Services

Microsoft has unveiled new and expanded security services under a category meant to help organizations achieve better security and productive outcomes. Microsoft Security Experts comes with three new managed services – Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, Microsoft Security Services for Enterprise and Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR or extended detection and response, Vasu Jakkal, corporate […] More

by Jane Edwards May 10, 2022, 11:54 am
in Cybersecurity, News

Palo Alto Networks: Custom Backdoor ‘SockDetour’ Targets Defense Companies

Palo Alto Networks has found that threat actors have been using a custom backdoor called SockDetour to target U.S. defense contractors. The company said Thursday SockDetour functions as a backup backdoor in the event that the first backdoor is removed and is hard to detect because it “operates filelessly and socketlessly on compromised Windows servers.” […] More

by Jane Edwards March 1, 2022, 11:55 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

Forcepoint’s Eric Trexler: Agencies Should Run Exercises to Better Train Employees on Cybersecurity

Eric Trexler, vice president of global governments and critical infrastructure team at Forcepoint, said federal agencies should provide cybersecurity training to employees, particularly information technology professionals responsible for dealing with cyber breaches, in accordance with the current administration’s executive order on cybersecurity. Trexler wrote in an article posted Monday on Federal Times that agencies should […] More

by Jane Edwards July 27, 2021, 12:37 pm
in M&A Activity, Cybersecurity News, Government Cloud, Government Technology, Industry News, News

Tech Analyst Says Federal Cyber Spending, Executive Order Could Spur M&A Activity

Dan Ives, a technology and media analyst at investment firm Wedbush Securities, said an increase in federal spending on cybersecurity platforms amid recent cyberattacks and a new executive order to strengthen the U.S. government’s cyber defenses could lead to an increase in mergers and acquisitions in the cybersecurity space, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. […] More

by Jane Edwards June 14, 2021, 11:56 am
in Government Technology, News

Perspecta Supports Grid Recovery Tests at DARPA Cybersecurity Exercise; Mac Curtis Quoted

Perspecta has tested multiple technology platforms built to secure power grid systems as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-hosted cybersecurity exercise in Plum Island, N.Y.

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by Matthew Nelson January 31, 2019, 12:06 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

Small Business Red Balloon Security to Update Cybersecurity Tool for DHS

The Department of Homeland Security science and technology directorate has awarded Red Balloon Security a $746,756 Small Business Innovation Research contract to update its Symbiote Defense intrusion detection system for the agency. DHS said Thursday the New York-based company will inject four new features to the system as part of the Hybrid Prediction for Embedded Malware project under the two-year SBIR […] More

by Joanna Crews October 6, 2017, 1:53 pm
in Cybersecurity News, News

Fujitsu Joins DHS’ Public-Private Threat Intell Sharing Program

Fujitsu has linked its cyber threat intelligence utilization system with the Department of Homeland Security‘s CTI sharing system as part of DHS’ Automated Indicator Sharing program. The connection was established in June and will allow Fujitsu to analyze its own CTI as well as threat information from the AIS program, which involves government and private institutions in U.S. […] More

by Ramona Adams July 20, 2017, 10:15 am
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Blumberg Capital Survey: 72% of US Adults Rank Foreign Espionage as Top Govt Cybersecurity Concern

Seventy-two percent of 1,012 U.S. adults who responded to a Blumberg Capital-backed survey have rank foreign espionage as the biggest cybersecurity threat facing the U.S. government. The 2017 State of Cybersecurity survey was conducted in collaboration with Researchscape and examined adults’ perception of cybersecurity challenges agencies, businesses and consumers face, Blumberg Capital said Wednesday. Twenty-three percent of respondents said they […] More

by Ramona Adams February 10, 2017, 10:00 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

6 Tech Firms Team Up to Boost Internet-of-Things Security

AT&T, IBM, Nokia, Palo Alto Networks, Symantec and Trustonic have forged an alliance with the goal to help businesses and consumers address security risks tied to the internet of things. The IoT Cybersecurity Alliance aims to promote awareness on cybersecurity measures designed to increase safety of the IoT ecosystem, foster partnership and support technology development, AT&T said Wednesday. “Be it a connected […] More

by Ramona Adams February 9, 2017, 8:14 am
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IBM-Ponemon Study: 32% of IT & Security Personnel Report High Organizational Cyber Resilience

A new study backed by the Ponemon Institute and IBM‘s Resilient subsidiary says 32 percent of information technology and security personnel claim there is a high level of cyber resilience in their organizations. IBM said Wednesday Ponemon interviewed 2,400 security and IT respondents across the world for the Resilient-sponsored 2016 Cyber Resilient Organization study. “This year’s Cyber Resilience […] More

by Ramona Adams November 17, 2016, 8:38 am
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Cylance, FedResults Forge Federal IT Market Partnership; Stuart McClure Comments

Cylance has added government distributor FedResults to its list of strategic partners to deliver cybersecurity offerings to the federal information technology market. Through the partnership, federal customers will have access to preventive endpoint security technology offerings developed based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, Cylance said Tuesday. “Recent events have shown how critical it is […] More

by Jay Clemens July 20, 2016, 1:19 pm

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