The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is seeking a contractor that can perform penetration testing services to improve its cybersecurity capabilities. According to a request for information posted on SAM .gov, the contractor will serve as a red team that would simulate attacks on the USPTO’s networks by using methods and resources that threat actors […]
Officials from the Department of Defense recently met with U.S. partners in the Five Eyes alliance to discuss zero trust practices and the development of Joint All-Domain Command and Control, a communications and sensing network that spans all the military services and covers land, sea, air and cyber, C4ISRNET reported Saturday. Five Eyes is an […]
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has warned that a Clop ransomware group has developed a new tactic to steal sensitive data from health care organizations and force them to pay a ransom. According to the latest HC3 analyst note, the group has been using medical appointment requests to send infected files disguised as medical […]
President Joe Biden signed into law the Strengthening VA Cybersecurity Act of 2022 on Dec. 27, aiming to enhance protection efforts across the Department of Veterans Affairs and the data it stores. The legislation, which calls for a third-party audit of information technology systems and cyber defense programs, was proposed after hackers breached a department […]
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, […]
