The U.S. and Japan are expected to finalize a memorandum of understanding focused on boosting the cyber defense of both countries. Japanese Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura is scheduled to meet with U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday to discuss the potential defense cooperation, Nikkei Asia reported. The MOU would center on developing […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Charles River Analytics a Small Business Innovation Research contract for aircraft systems cybersecurity. Under the Cyber Grammar Representations for Attack Meta-Monitoring including Analysis and Response SBIR, Charles River will offer its expertise in cyber linguistics to identify and analyze cyber threat data and ensure that aircraft systems will […]
Fidelis Cybersecurity has announced that two of its platforms have been added to the Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative as part of Carahsoft Technology‘s most recent award. The Fidelis Elevate and Fidelis CloudPassage Halo platforms were the new additions to DOD ESI. Elevate includes the Fidelis Network, Fidelis Endpoint and Fidelis Deception solutions while […]
Carahsoft Technology will sell Dell Technologies’ data security software to federal customers on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace under a new distribution agreement. The software to be offered include APEX Backup Services, PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect Cyber Recovery. According to Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft and an eight-time Wash100 winner, his company is working […]
The Aerospace Corp. has created the Space Attack Research and Tactic Analysis framework to provide space industry experts with unclassified information about the methods attackers use to compromise space assets. SPARTA is an ongoing project that was launched in October 2022 following the KA-SAT satellite system hack that disrupted communications in Ukraine, which is the […]
The Government Accountability Office said that the U.S. military services distributed a minimum of $160 million in special pay to retain cyber personnel from fiscal year 2017 to 2021. Such incentives are intended to maintain experts in top-level positions amid the draw of opportunities in other agencies and the private sector. In a December report, […]
Sen. Rob Portman has urged government agencies to speed up implementing a zero trust architecture, citing a lack of progress in deploying the capability. The lawmaker, set to retire on Jan. 3, led bipartisan efforts on legislation focused on emerging cybersecurity technologies. According to Portman, while the Senate has “a good bipartisan caucus of cyber-focused […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded four organizations $55 million in contracts under the Signature Management using Operational Knowledge and Environments program. Under the SMOKE program, the contractors will develop signature management technologies and automate threat-emulated infrastructure to realistically simulate threats and support efforts to detect complicated cyber threats in a more efficient […]
The appropriations bill that Congress approved on Friday includes provisions for memory safety, according to a security researcher who worked with the U.S. Senate. Jack Cable said in a Twitter post on Tuesday that Congress included a law in the fiscal year 2023 omnibus bill that requires the national cyber director to study memory safety […]
Kate Stewart, a computer scientist at the Linux Foundation involved with defining standards for software bills of materials, said that the industry is starting to make progress with the concept compared to a decade ago. She added that having access to “good quality SBOMs” and their corresponding vulnerability data could result in better usage outcomes. […]
