Matt Kraning, chief technology officer and co-founder of Expanse, said the rapid increase in the use of cloud-based platforms and other information technology tools to support telework during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for government agencies to implement asset management. 

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 16, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat‘s North American public sector business, has urged state and local government agencies to consider automating security and employing other efforts to enhance cybersecurity protection against financially driven hackers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 11, 2020 — Drew Schnabel, vice president of Zscaler's (Nasdaq: ZS) federal business, outlined five security attributes he believes the Department of Defense should incorporate into its distributed information technology environment, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 28.

Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal at Gigamon, said agencies should have pervasive visibility into encrypted data and data in transit across cloud, on-premises data centers and virtual environments to better protect their information technology infrastructure from cyber adversaries.

Jim Richberg, public sector field chief information security officer at Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT), said government agencies should begin rethinking security as they prepare for impending information technology budget cuts as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global professional services firm EY has won a potential five-year, $263.4M from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to help audit the U.S. Navy's financial statements.

Sherlonda Goode-Jones, a 22-year government advisory services industry veteran, has been named public sector financial services practice leader at Guidehouse. Her appointment is part of a series of executive appointments aimed to drive growth in the company's financial services segment.

Global investment firm Francisco Partners  has agreed to acquire cybersecurity platforms provider Forcepoint from Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) for an undisclosed sum.

Jim Hansen, vice president of products for application management at SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), said government agencies seeking to improve cybersecurity while ensuring the delivery of critical services to citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic should have a well-trained cyber workforce and field the right monitoring tools.

Bridget Medeiros, senior vice president and chief growth officer at NCI Information Systems, gave ArchIntel an overview of how the company transformed its approach to pursuing business opportunities in the government services sector. In an interview, Medeiros discussed how NCI is applying competitive intelligence in order to gain insight into the market landscape and to determine teaming partners for making bids on government projects. This is the 31st in a series of interviews with Competitive Intelligence and GovCon executives who share their insights about creating and sustaining a competitive advantage.