Telos to Provide Cybersecurity Consulting Services for DMDC
Comments OffTelos Corporation has been awarded a new contract to provide information technology (IT) security support to the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). The task order, worth more than $4 million if all options are exercised, was awarded under the Network Centric Solutions (NETCENTS) contract vehicle and will run for approximately two years.
Under the contract, Telos [...]
Mergers & Acquisitions: NICE Acquires CyberTech International
Comments OffNICE Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE), acquires CyberTech International, a provider of compliance recording solutions and value-added applications. The addition of CyberTech solutions to the NICE portfolio will broaden the company’s cyber security offering for financial institutions, strengthen its commitment to the SMB sector, and add to its public safety solutions. NICE will be acquiring [...]
SAIC Demonstrates Innovative Cybersecurity and Information Security Technologies at the 2011 RSA Conference
Comments OffSAIC will join the nation’s most influential cybersecurity and information security professionals at the 2011 RSA Conference February 14-18 at the Moscoe Center in San Francisco, Calif. RSA is a comprehensive forum featuring more than 350 leading information security companies, offering first-hand interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies.
SAIC professionals will demonstrate [...]
Information Technology Security Day, April 19, 2011, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Comments OffThe NIST Information Technology Security Day will be held April 19, 2011 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The NIST Information Technology Security Day is hosted annually as a means to heighten DOC and NIST user awareness of information technology security and related issues. Event pre-registration is not required. However, non-DOC badge holders require a NIST host, [...]
TeleCommunication Systems Won $49 Million Contract to Deliver Department of Defense Cyber Security Training
Comments OffTeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS), a provider of secure mobile communication technology, won a competitive five-year contract (a base plus five option periods) valued at approximately $49 million to provide the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) military and civilian personnel with on-site computer network operations (CNO) training to support the government’s cyber security workforce development. The government’s [...]
CARDIN INTRODUCES BILL TO PROTECT AMERICANS FROM CYBERCRIMINALS AND CYBERTERRORISTS
Comments OffAt the height of the cybershopping season and just as millions of Americans prepare to use their e-tickets to board airlines around the country for the holidays, U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee, has introduced major legislation that would require the government to work with [...]
New Public-Private Cybersecurity Partnership: NIST, DHS and Financial Sector
Comments OffMemorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed on Dec. 6, 2010 between NIST, the Department of Homeland Security and the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council. The parties agreed to work together to speed the application of research into practice for better cybersecurity for the critically important financial services sector. A new public-private partnership has [...]
Stuxnet Changes Rules of the Game
Comments OffStuxnet specifically targets computer systems that control electricity, water treatment, nuclear and chemical plants, pipelines, communications networks, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure, and it is unique in its complexity, flexibility, and resilience. Neither its creator nor its target is known. Stuxnet was called a “game changer” at a hearing of the Homeland Security and [...]
Gates: Cyber Attacks Present Huge Threat
Comments OffBy Elaine Wilson, American Forces Press Service
Leaders are taking steps to bring defense industrial and domestic partners under an umbrella of protection from cyber attacks, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said.
“There is a huge future threat and there is a considerable current threat [from cyber attacks],” Gates said here yesterday during a question-and-answer session at [...]
Cyber Europe 2010 Will Be Held in November
Comments OffThe European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has successfully completed “phase one” and a major milestone of the CYBER EUROPE 2010 -the first pan European exercise on 24th September. This first phase included the training and a dry-run. The second phase of CYBER EUROPE 2010, i.e., the actual exercise, is planned to take [...]
