Fortinet has established a Network Security Academy in a push to help address a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, San Jose Mercury News reported Tuesday. Pete Carey writes the academy seeks to collaborate with several universities worldwide to train students to thwart sophisticated threats. “We’re going help those students be armed with the necessary skill …
Read More »Siemens Unveils 3 Cybersecurity Ops Centers for Industrial Facility Protection
Siemens has unveiled three Cyber Security Operations Centers located in Milford, Ohio, in the U.S. and in Lisbon, Portugal, and Munich, Germany, for industrial facilities protection. The CSOCs will house industry security specialists tasked to monitor facilities around the globe for cyber threats, send out warnings to companies regarding incidents and …
Read More »Research and Markets Forecasts Key Cloud Security Vendors Through 2020
Research and Markets has launched a market report entitled Global Cloud Security Market 2016-2020 which lists five key vendors in cloud security and predicts a compound annual growth rate of 20.91 percent during the covered period. The company announced Friday the contents of the new report and named Cisco, IBM, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro as the …
Read More »Executive Profile: Steve Orrin, Intel Federal Division Chief Technologist
Steve Orrin is Intel chief technologist for the federal division where he oversees the division’s cybersecurity and cloud strategy, architecture and engagements. Orrin came to the Intel federal division in 2005 when it acquired Sarvega where he served as chief security officer. He has since assumed various leadership positions at Intel that put him …
Read More »Intel-AT&T Team to Test LTE Network-Linked UAV at Mobile Trade Congress
Intel and AT&T have partnered to evaluate how an unmanned aircraft vehicle can stream video and transmit flight information and telematics through the Long-Term Evolution wireless communications network. Intel will test the transmission functions of a Yuneec Typhoon H UAV fitted with Intel RealSense technology over AT&T’s core LTE network as part …
Read More »Ari Schwartz: New Industry Coalition to Push for Cybersecurity Policies
Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, Arbor Networks and Rapid7 have formed a coalition to educate and influence policymakers on cybersecurity issues. The Coalition for Cybersecurity Policy and Law said Thursday it aims to represent industry in policymaking venues and help the government identify strategies to spur development of information technology security tools and methods. “The members of this …
Read More »Cloudera to Hold Fifth Data Analytics Conference
Cloudera will hold its fifth annual conference on data analytics in Washington on March 15 to discuss how agencies execute their decisions and reduce costs through the use of data. The 2016 Cloudera Government Forum will convene public and private sector professionals and government officials such as Rep. William Hurd …
Read More »Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments
Lockheed Martin has introduced Solutionary to the former company’s cybersecurity alliance in an effort to help bolster initiatives to combat cyber attacks. Solutionary, an NTT group security company, provides managed security, professional security and global threat intelligence services for information technology infrastructures, cloud environments and mobile data, Lockheed said Thursday. Angie …
Read More »Intel’s Diversity Hiring Rate Hit 43% in 2015; Brian Krzanich, Neil Green Comment
A new Intel report says 43.1 percent of the technology firm’s new hires in 2015 were women and underrepresented minorities, exceeding the company’s annual diversity hiring goal of 40 percent. Intel said in the report released Wednesday the company increased the employment of women and underrepresented minorities in 2015 by …
Read More »Cray to Upgrade European Weather Research Center’s Computer, Storage Systems
Cray has been awarded a $36 million contract to upgrade the high-performance computers and storage system at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. The company will update the XC supercomputers to Cray XC40 systems and provide additional Sonexion 2000 Lustre storage and a 32-node system to the weather research center, …
Read More »Intel Among IJIS Institute 2016 Innovation Awardees; Roger Chandler Comments
Intel, Mutualink and the San Mateo County Sheriff have won the IJIS Institute’s 2016 Innovation Award for the Internet of Public Safety Things. The award honors technical contributions to further the interoperability of justice, public safety and homeland security projects, Mutualink said Thursday. “We are glad to be honored with …
Read More »John De Santis: HyTrust Forms Advisory Board in Govt Cloud Tech Market Push
HyTrust has formed an advisory group to support the company’s efforts to accelerate adoption of cloud security and virtualization technologies in the federal sector. The company’s federal advisory board comprises eight executives who have worked at civilian or defense agencies and companies that serve government clients, HyTrust said Thursday. “HyTrust is truly fortunate to …
Read More »AT&T, Partners Work on Internet of Things-Based ‘Smart City’ Framework
AT&T has partnered with seven other technology companies to produce a smart-city development framework intended to help local government organizations to harness Internet of Things platforms for management of their cities. Cisco, Deloitte, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have agreed to support AT&T’s strategy to help create more …
Read More »MarketsandMarkets: Internet of Things Security Market to Hit $29B in 2020
MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that projects the Internet of Things security market to reach $28.90 billion by 2020, a compound annual growth rate of 33.2 percent from 2015. Reportlinker said Monday the growing security concerns for critical infrastructures and security regulations have driven the IoT security market in …
Read More »Lenovo, Nutanix Forge Hyperconvergence Infrastructure Alliance for Clients; Yang Yuanqing Comments
Lenovo and Nutanix have partnered to jointly develop and offer new hyperconverged appliances to customers through Lenovo’s global channel partners. The Lenovo hyperconverged appliances will feature Nutanix’s software and incorporate Intel technologies to run enterprise applications, databases, virtualized desktops and big data analytics, Lenovo said Wednesday. Yang Yuanqing, chairman and …
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