By Charles Hall If you’re interested in cyber security and operations at the federal level, check out the AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium. This event combines the JIE Mission Partners Symposium and the International Cyber Symposium to increase dialogue among key participants, br...
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. 5 highlights from new CIO Council federal mobility report – FedScoop has a great piece on the recent Federal CIO Council’s Mobility report. Their key takeaways were BYOD, cost, security, gaps and “going forward....
By RyanKamauff The NSA needs to find cheaper ways to activate intelligence, and sharing seems to be one of them General Dynamics has introduced the TACLANE MultiBook laptop – which is certified by the NSA to secure network communications on Secret and below levels. This laptop can operate sim...
State Department CIO Susan Swart says that since WikiLeaks the agency has been working on improving security for its classified networks and systems with measures such as auditing and monitoring tools, tagging information with metadata to enable role-based access, and an effort to implement public ...
The U.S. Army has awarded nearly $250 million to a group of contractors to consolidate data centers and provision on-demand IT services and storage via a private cloud....
The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded an $86 million task order to General Dynamics IT to furnish information assurance and cybersecurity services to the DIA’s installations in the United States and abroad,company officials said Oct. 14. Under the contract, General Dynamics IT will ensur...
via FT.com Defence contractors are renewing efforts to expand their non-military businesses as they search for strategies to cope with declining defence budgets worldwide. Last month, General Dynamics, the fourth-biggest US defence contractor by government revenues, agreed to buy Vangent — ...
via Defense Industry Daily As the US defense budget is seeing targeted cuts, one area that seems to be getting more money is cybersecurity. The US military has announced plans to spend billions on technology to secure its networks. In response to this shift in priorities, traditional defense contrac...