CMS Project Subcontractor Suffers Cyber Attack, Compromising Medicare Beneficiary Health Data

Healthcare Management Solutions has suffered a ransomware attack that may have compromised the personal health information of up to 254,000 Medicare beneficiaries, including Social Security numbers, banking details and other identifiers. The company is a subcontractor under an ongoing ASRC Federal Data Solutions project with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. HMS provides troubleshooting […]
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Partnerships With Private Sector Help NSA Secure Critical Infrastructure in 2022

The National Security Agency has strengthened its partnership with the private sector to scale cybersecurity solutions and protect U.S. critical infrastructure, according to the 2022 Cybersecurity Year in Review. The NSA said its Cybersecurity Collaboration Center entered into over 300 industry partnerships over the past year to deliver intelligence-driven cybersecurity. The agency also collaborated with […]
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US, South Korea Discuss Cybersecurity Cooperation During Washington Meeting

Officials from the United States and the Republic of Korea have met in Washington, D.C., for their sixth Cyber Policy Consultations meeting. During the meeting, officials reaffirmed their commitment to promoting cyberspace stability and deepening cooperation on cybersecurity. Some of the matters discussed during the meeting are critical infrastructure resilience and protection, national cyber policy […]
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Cyber AB Authorizes Edwards Performance Solutions as C3PAO

The Cyber AB has authorized Edwards Performance Solutions to evaluate the cybersecurity maturity of defense industrial base corporations as a third-party assessment organization for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Edwards Performance Solutions will use its Government Community Cloud High Enclave as a C3PAO environment, which the DIB Cybersecurity Assessment Center scrutinized to ensure it […]
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Vulcan Cyber Partners With Four Inc. to Bring Cybersecurity Management Platform to Public Sector

Vulcan Cyber is providing public sector access to its unified cyber risk and security posture management platform through a partnership with Four Inc. Under the agreement, Four Inc. will deliver the platform to public sector customers using its NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement and Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-Software 2 contracts and its partner network. With […]
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TD Synnex Public Sector to Distribute BIO-key PortalGuard, Biometrics Solutions

TD Synnex Public Sector will serve as the distributor for BIO-key International’s PortalGuard and identity-bound biometric multifactor authentication solutions to the federal, state and local government. Fred Corsentino, BIO-key’s chief revenue officer, said that the partnership would widen government access to cost-effective identity and access management platforms, BIO-key said Monday. PortalGuard is an identity-as-a-service platform […]
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National Cyber Director Plans Official Visit to Japan to Boost Cybersecurity Cooperation

National Cyber Director Chris Inglis will seek stronger cybersecurity cooperation with Japan during his official visit to the country in the coming weeks. According to Mark Montgomery, former executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, the trip could include efforts to encourage other allied countries to improve cyber resilience and preparation and talks about contributing […]
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Empower AI to Provide Cybersecurity Support Services to US Army ISEC-MED

Empower AI has secured a potential two-year, $14 million task order to support the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command’s Mission Engineering directorate. Under the task order, Empower AI will provide cybersecurity support services to ensure that ISEC-MED will be able to address evolving cyber missions. Specific support services to be delivered include cybersecurity life […]
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