Cyber
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InternationalThales And BT Sign New International Agreement To Offer Vormetric Transparent Encryption
Thales and BT [BT] made a new international agreement wherein BT will offer Thales’ Vormetric Transparent Encryption, a cyber defense tool, to its existing customers in 180 countries, France’s Thales said […]
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CyberOMB’s FISMA Report Shows Agencies Moving Toward Cyber Security Goals
Federal agencies are making progress toward achieving cyber security goals in three priority areas although overall, agencies are still short of meeting targeted metrics, the White House Office of Management […]
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CyberRAND Study Finds Zero-Day Software Vulnerabilities Have A Lifespan of Almost Seven Years
A newly released RAND Corp. study found that zero-day vulnerabilities have an average life expectancy (time between first private discovery and public disclosure) of 6.9 years, making it a reasonable […]
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Cyber
Navy Awards Contracts For Cyberspace Research And Technology Integration
The U.S. Navy awarded four indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts worth a combined almost $76 million to provide cyberspace science, research, engineering, and technology integration, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Contracted […]
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Congress
Industry Officials Praise Cyber Information Sharing Efforts With DHS But Seek More Context
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) role in creating processes for sharing cyber threat information between the federal government and industry, particularly through a year-old automated portal, has been valuable […]
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CyberDTRA RFI Seeks Input On IT Support Including Migration To The Cloud
The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) issued a request for information (RFI) for industry input on strategies to implement a goal of evolving the agency information technology (IT) services […]
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CyberDHS Awards $16 Million In Contracts To Help Detect Vulnerabilities In New Software
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded Kestrel Technology, LLC and GrammaTech, Inc. separate contracts worth about $8 million each to help improve static analysis tools […]
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ArmyArmy To Bankroll Research Into Battlefield ‘Internet Of Things’
In future wars, the Army expects to fight on complex multi-domain battlefields in which almost every piece of equipment is connected to all others through a battlefield network. Vehicles, weapons, […]
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Homeland SecurityCBP Doesn’t Expect To Use Systems Integrator For Biometric Exit Rollout
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last Friday said it doesn’t expect to use a large system integrator to design the backend capabilities for its planned rollout in 2018 of a […]
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Business/FinancialSymantec Forms Symantec Ventures To Accelerate Cyber Startups
Symantec Corp. [SYMC] formed Symantec Ventures to help cybersecurity startups accelerate the delivery of their innovation to the market, the company said Thursday. As part of this effort Symantec will […]