According to an article in USA Today, firms that deal with cyber security are booming, even while the rest of the economy is busting. America’s Growth Capital (AGC) reports that 55 security firms have already been acquired this year. The article cites two main sources for this seemingly constantly increasing demand for security firms. On the one hand, cyber criminals continue to innovate, finding new ways to hack into systems to steal sensitive data from commercial and even military sources. On the other hand, as announced by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, Â the government seems poised to pump more funding into cyber security. You can read the full article here.
Government agencies are seeing more efficient responses and resolutions to cybersecurity issues as a result of a number of strategies, including a focus on collaboration, according to officials from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISA’s David Carroll, who serves as associate director for mission engineering, credits private-public partnerships as the “fuel” of cyber operations and
Like many government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection manages petabytes of data flowing through it every day. They perform an estimated 50 billion data exchanges and 10 billion transactions daily. This also means there are roughly 100 million cyber attack attempts per day on their network, according to CBP
Paul Courtney, chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security, accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from the award’s founder, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, in a recent in-person meeting. The Wash100 Award is bestowed on the 100 individuals EM’s discerning voting body determines are the foremost change-makers in government contracting and the federal sector. Candidates are evaluated