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  • IBM-Ponemon Study: 32% of IT & Security Personnel Report High Organizational Cyber Resilience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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

  • XTec Secures $60M Task Order to Continue State Dept ID Mgmt System Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    XTec Secures $60M Task Order to Continue State Dept ID Mgmt System Support

    XTec has received a potential three-year, $60 million task order to continue to provide project management and technical support services for the State Department‘s enterprise identity management system. XTec said Thursday the order contains one base year and four six-month options and falls under a blanket purchase agreement that was based on the company’s Federal Supply Schedule contract with the General […] More

  • DLT, Centrify Form Public Sector Identity Mgmt Partnership; Jeremy Young, Greg Cranley Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT, Centrify Form Public Sector Identity Mgmt Partnership; Jeremy Young, Greg Cranley Comment

    DLT Solutions and Centrify have forged a partnership to introduce a multi-factor authentication platform that aims to help government agencies protect their information infrastructure and applications from data breaches and other cyber threats. Jeremy Young, vice president of cybersecurity division at DLT, said in a statement released Wednesday the company will combine its more than […] More

  • NIST Seeks Industry, Govt Input on Cyber Trends, Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Seeks Industry, Govt Input on Cyber Trends, Challenges

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has asked government agencies and industry to provide information on the current and future cybersecurity challenges and trends as well as novel approaches to address such challenges. NIST said in a Federal Register notice posted Wednesday the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will use the responses from the request for […] More

  • Sarah Schacht Named Operations Manager of Identity Ecosystem Steering Group - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sarah Schacht Named Operations Manager of Identity Ecosystem Steering Group

    Sarah Schacht, a principal consultant at Smarter Civic, has been appointed as operations manager at the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. The private sector-led organization said Thursday Schacht will help grow IDESG’s Identity Ecosystem Framework registry and foster collaborations with companies, government agencies and civil organizations in the areas of privacy, security and identity management. “We are excited to […] More

  • WISeKey Aims to Help Secure Connected Devices Through Microsoft's City Transformation Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WISeKey Aims to Help Secure Connected Devices Through Microsoft’s City Transformation Initiative

    WISeKey has joined a Microsoft-led global initiative that aims to help connect government agencies, businesses and citizens with urban services through the use of technology. WISeKey said Monday it will provide an integrated object identity management and cybersecurity tool for cities to securely connect to the Azure cloud computing technology and other Microsoft-made platforms under the CityNext initiative. “Government employees and city infrastructure from traffic lights and […] More

  • Kelly Bissell Joins Accenture Subsidiary as Global Managing Director; Omar Abbosh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kelly Bissell Joins Accenture Subsidiary as Global Managing Director; Omar Abbosh Comments

    Kelly Bissell, former Deloitte cyber risk services lead for Europe, Middle East and Africa, has joined Accenture as global managing director of the latter firm’s Accenture Security subsidiary. Accenture said Monday Bissell, who was hired in June, holds 25 years of security industry experience in breach incident response, identity management, privacy and data protection, secure software development and cyber risk […] More

  • MorphoTrust's DoD ID Verification Contract Renewed; Bob Eckel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MorphoTrust’s DoD ID Verification Contract Renewed; Bob Eckel Comments

    MorphoTrust has received a $3.5 million contract renewal to extend its biometrics-based identity verification services for the Defense Department as part of a third-year option. The company said Tuesday it will continue to provide the MorphoTrust ABIS or automated biometric identification system to DoD in support of the national security mission. “Federal agencies need to be able to reliably verify the […] More

  • Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov't Cloud Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov’t Cloud Users

    Microsoft has made its Azure ExpressRoute cloud integration service available to users of the software company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Yousef Khalidi, Azure networking engineer at Microsoft, wrote in a Microsoft blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute service is designed to establish private connectivity between on-premises data centers and Azure cloud computing platform without the […] More

  • CRN: Dell to Debut ID Mgmt Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CRN: Dell to Debut ID Mgmt Offering

    Dell will launch a new identity management and access control offering in an effort to help customers secure their cloud environments, CRN reported Monday. Matt Brown writes the Dell One Identity Manager 7.0 security platform is designed to provide an integrated identity and access management strategy to clients. Dell intends for the new offering to […] More

  • ImageWare Systems Licenses Biometrics Platform to Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ImageWare Systems Licenses Biometrics Platform to Lockheed

    ImageWare Systems‘ biometrics platform will be incorporated into Lockheed Martin’s Identity as a Service offering in the cloud as part of a three-year licensing agreement between both companies. Lockheed will offer its IDHaystack IDaaS offering with ImageWare’s Biometric Engine platform ifor identity management to government and commercial clients through SolaS cloud, ImageWare said Tuesday. The SolaS cloud platform is designed […] More

  • Amit Yoran: RSA to Shift Tech Investments, Eyes Telecom Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amit Yoran: RSA to Shift Tech Investments, Eyes Telecom Partnerships

    Amit Yoran, president of RSA, has discussed company’s move to transform the business across its entire enterprise and plans to partner with telecommunication firms in India with Firstpost in an interview published Friday. Yoran told Firstpost’s Ivor Soans that RSA has increased its investments in identity management and authentication services, threat monitoring, security operations center and the governance, risk and compliance […] More