A new Riverbed Technology survey has found that 81 percent of federal information technology leaders said the move to telework arrangements expedited their agencies’ deployment and use of network visibility platforms.
Read More »Fortinet’s Jim Richberg: AI, Automation, Machine Learning Could Aid Agencies’ Cybersecurity Efforts
Jim Richberg, field chief information security officer at Fortinet, wrote in a guest piece published Wednesday on GCN that government CISOs with limited budget resources and staff should leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation to accelerate detection and response to cyber attacks.
Read More »VMware’s Tom Kellermann on Iran’s Cyber Capabilities
Tom Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware, told Bloomberg in a video interview posted Saturday he believes Iran will respond to a U.S. airstrike through cyber warfare.
Read More »Industry Leaders Cite Need for Better Network Visibility in Federal IT Infrastructure
Industry executives interviewed at Black Hat USA cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas said government agencies need to have more visibility into their networks in order to protect their infrastructure from cyber threats, Fifth Domain reported Friday.
Read More »Davis Johnson: Riverbed Hosts Discussions on Govt Cloud Adoption, Digital Transformation
Riverbed Technology has facilitated discussions on government cloud adoption at the company’s first annual “Disrupt” event for public sector leaders in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The event featured a keynote speech from Hansang Bae, Riverbed chief technology officer, where he discussed how federal agencies can deploy software-defined wide area network to simplify cloud …
Read More »Splunk Study: Lack of Visibility, Siloed Systems Impact Public Sector Execs’ Confidence in IT Operations
A new Splunk study has found that at least 60 percent of information technology executives in the public sector said they are less confident in executing tasks in various areas of IT operations than they did in the past year. Those areas include management of complexity and scale of IT …
Read More »RSA, Gigamon to Jointly Offer Network Security Tools for Traffic Visibility
RSA and Gigamon have partnered to offer the GigaSECURE security delivery platform and RSA Security Analytics product to customers that seek visibility into software-defined data centers and other virtual network environments. Gigamon said Monday visibility into network traffic helps generate actionable intelligence to support network protection measures. “Customers need pervasive visibility into virtual …
Read More »MIT to Work on USAF Transparent Computing Program Against APTs
The U.S. Air Force has selected the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a new way to catch advanced persistent threats inside a network under a $7.1 million Air Force Research Laboratory contract, Defense Systems reported Tuesday. Kevin McCaney writes that the service tasked MIT to apply transparent computing technology to help IT personnel tag …
Read More »New RSA Security Analytics Adds Functions & Pricing, Packaging Options
EMC‘s security division RSA has unveiled additional cloud security, network visibility and data privacy functions for its RSA Security Analytics offering, which will be available under throughput-based pricing and flexible packaging options. EMC said Tuesday the product works to provide security incident and event management capabilities beyond logs to detect threat signals using a combination …
Read More »RSA’s Amit Yoran: Tech Security Vendors Must Go Beyond ‘Legacy Mindsets’
Amit Yoran, president of the RSA security division at EMC, has urged the technology security sector to go beyond “legacy mindsets” to address what he views as emerging challenges in the current threat environment. Yoran, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2015, told attendees of this week’s RSA Conference that technology is not the …
Read More »Rob Potter Assumes Federal Sales VP Role at Lancope; Mike Potts Comments
Rob Potter has taken on a new role at Lancope as vice president of federal sales. Potter, leveraging 22 years of experience in information technology, security and sales in the federal market, has helped the network security solutions provider grow its federal business portfolio by up to 170 percent, Lancope …
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