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Business/Financial

Software Firm Touts DHS Award To Develop Active Cyber Defense Technology

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018

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Software Firm Touts DHS Award To Develop Active Cyber Defense Technology

NexiTech, a software firm based in Colorado, has received a small contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop active cyber defense technology for the financial services industry.The $194,000 contract will be applied toward NexiTech’s Moving Target Defense platform for protecting storage devices and networks.“This project could potentially be of great interest to CIOs at financial services firms, as well as the many IT professionals specializing in data storage at those firms, not to mention the dedicated professionals…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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