Tag Archives: threat detection

SAIC has been awarded a potential $973 million task order by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to support the agency's cornerstone system for identifying travelers and cargo that present a potential security threat, the company reported Tuesday. The award has a one-year base period of performance, four one-year option periods and a six-month optional extension of services.

Frank Duff, principal cyber operations engineer at Mitre, told Federal News Network in an interview published Friday about the nonprofit corporation's evaluation of cybersecurity offerings from 21 vendors against cyber threat group APT29. Mitre assessed the cyber platforms using its ATT&CK knowledge base to emulate the techniques used by APT29, which is believed to be related to the Russian government and involved in the Democratic National Committee compromise.

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.

A BAE Systems research and development organization has secured funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a data analytics technology for government analysts to detect and deter the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Microsoft has released a white paper to guide government agencies and other public sector clients as they address common security concerns related to cloud migration.

Joe Ottaviano, a director at Lockheed Martin's rotary and mission systems business, said the Block 2 update to the U.S. Navy's shipboard electronic warfare system under the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program could help the service detect various threats such as missiles and hostile electronic signals, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday.

The Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has partnered with Splunk to automate the process for analysts to detect, examine and respond to cyber threats.

Bartley Richardson, a senior data scientist for artificial intelligence infrastructure at NVIDIA, has said using AI tools can help federal and state information technology teams protect sensitive government information from cyber threats.

Elbit Systems of America has announced it will showcase a suite of aircrew situational awareness products and services at the 2018 National Guard Association of the U.S. Conference and Exhibition. The company said Monday it will present four types of products at the event that will take place Aug. 24  to 27 …

Fortinet has introduced an artificial intelligence platform designed to automate analysis and detection of cyber threats. The cybersecurity company said Tuesday the FortiGuard AI threat intelligence tool was produced through a five-year effort of Fortinet’s research group, FortiGuard Labs, to develop automated threat analysis and detection. FortiGuard AI uses machine learning and continuous training …

Leidos and SecurityMatters have partnered to add passive monitoring features into a technology platform designed to help operators monitor and secure industrial control systems. SecurityMatters said Thursday it will integrate its SilentDefense continuous threat detection and response platform with Leidos’ Industrial Defender Automation Systems Manager offering. Leidos will resell the integrated product to current and …

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a continuous security monitoring and threat detection service in a move to help customers identify potential threats to their AWS accounts. Amazon GuardDuty is designed to apply machine learning and scan public and AWS-generated data streams to detect malicious or unauthorized activity in users’ AWS environments, AWS …

Engility has unveiled an artificial intelligence platform that company designed to help military and federal civilian agencies use data to make decisions. The company said Monday its Synthetic Analyst tool works to support decision-making across various operations such as threat detection and analysis; course of action planning; training support; and headquarters operations. Engility CEO Lynn Dugle, …

The U.S. Air Force has ordered additional Voti Detection-made scanners in a move to increase security of the military branch’s facilities. Voti said Wednesday it will supply the Air Force with XR3D-60 and XR3D-6D scanners designed to examine scanned images and identify potential threats. The platforms are equipped with three-dimensional X-ray technology that employs  detection algorithms …

“…we are focused on making what was once impossible–possible” EM: Tell me about your background and how you got to where you are today. Bill Sullivan: My background is somewhat unique in the federal space. I came from the state, local and education (SLED) market, running a series of North American …