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Booz Allen“™s Dan Tucker, Elastic“™s George Young: Data-First Strategy Key to Federal IT Modernization

Dan Tucker, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton“™s digital solutions business, and George Young, VP of U.S. public sector at Elastic, have said federal agencies that aim to modernize their information technology infrastructure should begin with their data layer. “The most effective IT modernization strategies are driven by a data management strategy,“ Tucker and Young […] More

by Jane Edwards October 25, 2018, 3:39 am
in C4ISR News, News

Bill Sullivan: Raytheon Eyes 2019 Completion for GPS OCX Software Dev“™t

Bill Sullivan, a vice president and OCX program manager at Raytheon, has said the company expects software development work on a ground-based operational control system for the U.S. Air Force“™s GPS III satellites to conclude in 2019, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Sullivan said the Raytheon-built OCX system, which is slated for completion in June 2021, adopts “layered security“ […] More

by Jane Edwards September 12, 2018, 8:57 am
in Featured, General, Industry News, News

Paul Smith Talks Open Source Tech at Red Hat Government Symposium

Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat“™s public sector, told attendees of the company“™s annual Government Symposium that he believes open-source technology “is the best source for choice and security.“ Smith cited the Kubernetes project to discuss the role of open source in efforts to address information technology challenges within the government, […] More

by Jane Edwards January 5, 2018, 11:00 am
in Government Cloud, News

Cisco“™s Larry Payne: FedRAMP “˜Tailored“™ Reduces Security Control Requirements for Low-Impact Cloud Services

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s new “tailored“ baseline process is designed to accelerate security assessments and certification of cloud service providers with software-as-a-service platforms, Cisco‘s Larry Payne wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday. Payne, vice president of public sector sales at Cisco, said the FedRAMP Tailored program seeks to reduce from 125 to 36 the number of security controls […] More

by Jane Edwards October 16, 2017, 9:20 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

Exostar Updates Enterprise Collaboration Tool for Govt Security Standard Compliance

Exostar has updated its multi-tenant enterprise collaboration platform to comply with the National Institute of Standards and Technology“™s security controls and Defense Department‘s cybersecurity directives. The company said Tuesday its collaboration technology offering is a software-as-a-service platform designed to help defense companies, subcontractors and suppliers share files that contain covered defense information with other organizations in accordance […] More

by Jane Edwards March 1, 2017, 6:40 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

BAE Unveils Online Tool for Cybersecurity Risk Assessment; Julian Cracknell Comments

BAE Systems has introduced an online tool designed to help business organizations assess their cybersecurity measures. BAE“™s online platform works to help organizations evaluate the status of their cybersecurity programs for their information and communications technology systems through responses to 10 questions that are based on cyber guidance issued by CESG, the U.K. government“™s national information security […] More

by Jane Edwards October 4, 2016, 4:49 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

Tripwire Survey: 73% of Federal IT Professionals Believe Networks Would Generate Unauthorized Access Alerts

A new Tripwire survey says 73 percent of information technology professionals in the federal government believe their IT systems would send e-mail notifications or alerts of non-privileged access to files within hours. Tripwire said Thursday it commissioned market research firm Dimensional Research to poll 763 IT executives from different sectors, including 103 federal government respondents, in order […] More

by Jane Edwards June 30, 2016, 11:01 am
in News, Products & Service

Exostar Updates Risk Management Service to Address DoD Cybersecurity Compliance Mandate

Exostar has updated its risk management service offered to defense contractors in an effort to meet a cybersecurity compliance mandate from the Defense Department. The service now includes a questionnaire that works to guide defense contractors through more than 100 information security controls in the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Special Publication 800-171, Exostar said Wednesday. Non-deviation from NIST […] More

by Scott Nicholas April 21, 2016, 8:30 am
in Cybersecurity News, Featured, General, News

Cisco Seeks to Support DoD Cyber Strategy Through NIST Risk Mgmt Framework Compliance

Cisco has moved to align its cybersecurity platforms with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Risk Management Framework“™s process for the selection of security controls. Steve Caimi, industry solutions specialist at Cisco, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that such effort seeks to support of the Defense Department“™s cybersecurity strategy. “Selecting the security controls […] More

by Jane Edwards April 15, 2016, 9:33 am
in Government Cloud, News

Microsoft, AWS, CSRA Near FedRAMP High Baseline Certifications for Cloud Platforms

Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and CSRA are in the process of securing high baseline certifications for their cloud platforms under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Federal Times reported March 21. Aaron Boyd writes the cloud service providers are scheduled to receive their authorizations in April following their involvement in a pilot program that seeks […] More

by Jane Edwards April 7, 2016, 6:11 am

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