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Mitre Evaluates Cyber Tools From 21 Vendors for ‘APT29’ Threat Defense Initiative
Mitre has issued the results of its assessments of cybersecurity platforms from 21 companies to help industry and government agencies improve their capabilities to detect and combat cyber threats. Mitre evaluated the cyber offerings using its ATT&CKÂ knowledge base to emulate the techniques used by APT29, a cyber threat group believed to be related to the Russian government, the nonprofit corporation said Tuesday.
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.
ICE Seeks Sources for New Legal Data Mgmt Software
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor seeks market information on electronic discovery software.
Tech Companies Back Federal Government’s COVID-19 Response Initiatives
Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google and other technology companies are reaching out to the federal government to help with coronavirus pandemic response efforts, FedScoop reported Monday. “This is unprecedented and so the response from the tech sector has been unprecedented,â€Â Nick Sinai, a senior adviser at venture capital firm Insight Partners, told the publication.
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Public-Private Consortium Aims to Hasten COVID-19 Response With Supercomputing Tech; Michael Kratsios, Teresa Carlson Quoted
Several U.S. government, commercial and academic organizations have vowed to provide high-performance computing resources to support COVID-19 research and development efforts worldwide through a newly formed public-private consortium.
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SAIC, Goodyear Initiate Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Security Program; Jim Scanlon Quoted
Science Applications International Corp. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. have partnered to launch a pilot program that aims to secure customer data across a supply chain with the use of blockchain technology.