Brett McMillen, director of federal government at Amazon Web Services, told FedScoop in a video interview posted Wednesday that the company has seen meaningful progress in federal information technology modernization as agencies realize the benefits of cloud adoption.
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Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has said artificial intelligence could help block cyber attacks through classification of network threats, CSO reported Friday. “An AI has supervised learning capabilities using neural networks for entity and pattern recognition for intrusion detection systems and event forensics applications,“ Testoni told CSO's …
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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 …
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Boston Fusion has awarded root9B a subcontract to provide consulting services for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's information innovation office in support of the $60 million Transparent Computing initiative. Root9B will work with Boston Fusion to conduct research and develop scenarios for advanced persistent threats and other cyber threat …
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security could award a classified five-year contract for the development, operations and maintenance of federal cybersecurity tools by the end of August or early next month, Federal Times reported Thursday. Aaron Boyd writes DHS will seek contractors to help manage DHS’ National Cybersecurity Protection System …
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James Carder and Chris Petersen of LogRhythm and Alissa Torres of the SANS Institute joined Sameer Bhalotra, former senior cybersecurity director at the White House, as presenters at the recent SANS Digital Forensics Incident Response Summit. LogRhythm said July 2 their presentation titled “Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Triggering Cyber Breach …
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