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  • Carahsoft Includes Optensity's Incident Response App on GSA Schedule Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Includes Optensity’s Incident Response App on GSA Schedule Contract

    Carahsoft Technology will offer an Optensity application to the government sector via the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 contract vehicle in an effort to help agencies orchestrate incident response and recovery measures for infrastructure and cyber operations. Optensity developed its >rapid response for Splunk app for users to compose custom alert actions meant to facilitate system-wide incident response strategies without the need for […] More

  • Leidos to Sponsor Air Force Association's Cyber Education Program; Chuck Heflebower Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Sponsor Air Force Association’s Cyber Education Program; Chuck Heflebower Comments

    Leidos will continue to sponsor the Air Force Association’s cyber education program for the eighth consecutive year. AFA said Monday Leidos has supported CyberPatriot as a Cyber Silver sponsor since the program’s inception in 2009 to help develop students’ cyber skills and interest in science, technology, engineering and math careers. “We at Leidos are very proud of our founding […] More

  • Haiyan Song: Organizations will Integrate Machine Learning Tech to Automate Data Breach Response - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Haiyan Song: Organizations will Integrate Machine Learning Tech to Automate Data Breach Response

    Haiyan Song, Splunk vice president of security markets, said more organizations will adopt adaptive response, behavioral analytics and machine learning strategies to automate response, retrieval and sharing in multivendor environments. Song wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday machine learning-based systems will increase in 2017 as government and industry organizations look to respond threats such as […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Qmulos' Automated Security Compliance Apps to GSA Schedule, SEWP Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Qmulos’ Automated Security Compliance Apps to GSA Schedule, SEWP Contracts

    Carahsoft has agreed to serve as the master government aggregator of Qmulos‘ security compliance applications and offer the tools to government clients via two different contract vehicles run by the General Services Administration and NASA. Qmulos said Tuesday its Q-Audit and Q-Compliance apps are designed to give users real-time visibility into management, operational and technical controls for information technology risk management, security and compliance monitoring programs. Carahsoft will help Qmulos market the Splunk-powered […] More

  • Carahsoft Receives Splunk Global Partner Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Receives Splunk Global Partner Awards

    Carahsoft has received two awards in the 2016 installment of Splunk‘s Global Partner Awards. The company was chosen for the Global Award for Marketing Excellence and the Regional Award for Public Sector Distribution Partner of the Year for its performance under Splunk’s Partner+ program, Carahsoft said March 15. “Carahsoft has grown from a federal government-focused reseller into a distributor supporting […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance

    Lockheed Martin will work with LogRhythm on cybersecurity systems integration pilot programs after the latter signed up for the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. LogRhythm also agreed to offer its security intelligence platform and share cybersecurity-focused best practices with Lockheed as a member of the alliance, Lockheed said Monday. The LogRhythm-built security intelligence tool works to […] More

  • Booz Allen, Splunk Forge Cyber Alliance; Angie Messer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Splunk Forge Cyber Alliance; Angie Messer Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Splunk have entered into a cybersecurity agreement as both companies seek to help public sector and commercial customers detect and mitigate threats to their computer networks. The companies will combine their threat intelligence and cyber operations in order to expand security offerings and bolster predictive cyber analytics tools, Booz Allen said Wednesday. […] More

  • Michael Shrader on Carahsoft's Federal Market Partnerships, Role of Product Resellers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Shrader on Carahsoft’s Federal Market Partnerships, Role of Product Resellers

    Michael Shrader leads the intelligence and innovative solutions business unit at Carahsoft as a vice president for the Reston, Va.-based technology product reseller. He previously spoke to ExecutiveBiz in February 2013 for a wide-ranging discussion on his company’s partnership with Splunk to offer data analytics software in the public sector and Carahsoft’s work to help its partners market […] More

  • Knowledge Consulting Group Wins $29M Task Order Contract for DHS CDM Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Knowledge Consulting Group Wins $29M Task Order Contract for DHS CDM Program

    Knowledge Consulting Group has secured a $29 million contract for the second task order under phase 1 of the Department of Homeland Security program to implement continuous diagnostics and mitigation tools, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Jason Miller writes that KCG will oversee the rollout of McAfee‘s Vulnerability Manager and ePolicy Orchestrator, ForeScout‘s CounterACT and Splunk‘s big data analytics offering to […] More

  • Tech Firms Form Open Data Platform Alliance; Siki Giunta Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Firms Form Open Data Platform Alliance; Siki Giunta Comments

    Big data companies have forged an open data platform initiative that aims to further the development of big data technologies based on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The alliance comprises GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, Altiscale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata and VMware, Pivotal said Tuesday. The companies will collaborate to develop and implement […] More

  • Sanjay Mehta: Splunk Designs Dashboard Access App for iPhone, iPad - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sanjay Mehta: Splunk Designs Dashboard Access App for iPhone, iPad

    Splunk has unveiled a mobile application for users to access the operational intelligence company’s dashboards and reports. The Splunk mobile app is available for iPhone and iPad users to view reports and receive Splunk enterprise alerts in real time, Splunk said Wednesday. “Splunk deployments have become increasingly critical for our users, who now can benefit from […] More