Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and trust at Microsoft, said the company has found nation-state hacking operations that have targeted seven companies developing vaccines and other potential treatments for the novel coronavirus.
Read More »Zscaler Report Finds 260% Rise in Attacks via Encrypted Channels; Deepen Desai Quoted
A new report from Zscaler has found a 260 percent increase in encryption-based threats during the first nine months of 2020. Zscaler’s threat research team analyzed 6.6B encrypted threats delivered through Secure Sockets Layer channels between January and September and found that health care was the most targeted industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by finance and insurance, manufacturing, government and services sectors.
Read More »LexisNexis Risk Solutions Names New Executives to Health Care Business; Josh Schoeller Quoted
LexisNexis Risk Solutions has appointed new executives to its Health Care Business leadership team. Dave Corbett will serve as head of Sales and Client Engagement and Jeff Diamond has been promoted to senior vice president of Commercial Operations. “[Corbett] brings tremendous experience in nurturing client relationships and leading high-performing sales teams that will help us deliver more value for our clients,” said Josh Schoeller, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' health care business.
Read More »Accenture Unveils COVID-19 Vaccination Program Mgmt Tool; Ryan Oakes Quoted
Accenture has launched a platform to help government agencies and health care institutions plan and manage COVID-19 vaccination programs and related communication and distribution efforts.
Read More »Cognosante to Support Pennsylvania Health Insurance Enrollment Process
Cognosante has secured a contract to help the Pennsylvania Health Insurance Exchange Authority manage the enrollment process for the state's new marketplace. The company said Tuesday it will assist families and individuals that want to purchase insurance plans through the state-run Pennie exchange.
Read More »Wendi Whitmore: IBM Report Finds Link Between Security Automation, Breach Cost Reduction
Wendi Whitmore, vice president of a team working on threat intelligence and incident response at IBM, said the company’s Cost of a Data Breach report shows a connection between the adoption of security automation and orchestration practices and reduced data breach costs, Nextgov reported Thursday.
Read More »Reggie Brothers: NuWave Eyes Expansion in Federal Civilian, Energy, Health Care Markets
Reggie Brothers, CEO of NuWave Solutions, said the company primarily focuses on intelligence and defense markets with plans to expand its artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and data management work in federal civilian and commercial sectors.
Read More »Intel-Backed Tech Firms Support COVID-19 Efforts
Fifteen technology companies that have secured Intel Capital investments are helping government agencies, health care facilities and private businesses respond to the coronavirus pandemic with innovation.
Read More »Microsoft Offers AccountGuard Threat Notification Service to Health Care Providers
Microsoft has made its threat notification service available for free to hospitals, clinics, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, clinicians and other health care providers offering front-line services during the COVID-19 pandemic. AccountGuard is designed to monitor threat actors targeting personal email accounts and enterprise mailboxes and send alerts to users to help them counter cyber attacks, Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday.
Read More »EY, Qualtrics, SAP Partner to Support Gov’t COVID-19 Activities
Ernst and Young, has partnered with Qualtrics and SAP to help government entities address the COVID-19 outbreak.
Read More »ECS Assists Navy’s COVID-19 Response Work; George Wilson Quoted
ECS has agreed to help the U.S. Navy deliver COVID-19 relief services from the USNS Mercy hospital ship across the U.S. West Coast.
Read More »Mitre Helps Form New COVID-19 Response Coalition
Mitre has joined other private organizations to create an industrial health care-focused union against the COVID-19 coronavirus disease.
Read More »Maximus’ Tom Romeo: Automation, Contract Consolidation Among 2020 Federal Tech Trends
Tom Romeo, general manager of Maximus’ federal services segment and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, wrote in a GCN article published Thursday there are three technology trends to watch in the federal government space this year and one is the adoption of new technologies to transform the way citizens apply and receive health care benefits.
Read More »Leidos Partners With Analytics Firm for Augmented Health Care Services
Leidos has agreed to use Clarify Health Solutions’ predictive analytics in support of customers’ health care activities.
Read More »DSS, All In Solutions Seek to Back Veterans’ Health Care Via Joint Venture
Document Storage Systems and All In Solutions have established a joint venture to help meet the health care needs of veterans and further advance federal health innovation.
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