Chris Niggel, director of security and compliance at San Francisco-based identity management services provider Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), has said government agencies seeking to protect information systems from cyber threats should adopt security controls œthat match the level of risk. Niggel wrote that choosing such controls begins with the process ...
After a review by the General Services Administration, the White House and intelligence agencies, Russian cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky Lab may no longer sell to federal agencies via civilian acquisition contract vehicles. Kaspersky was dropped from the pre-approved vendors list provided by NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurem...
Weekly Roundup February 27 – March 3 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson The Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 4th Annual Intel Summit this past Wednesday morning at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner featuring a keynote address from Robert Cardillo, NGA direct...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded higher Wednesday on help from its large-cap components against mixed U.S. stock movements as investors awaited Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen’s speech on the U.S. economy during the last hour of trade. GovCon Index gainers slightly edged decliners each and nine...
Adam Wilson, CEO of San Francisco-based software firm Trifacta, has said federal agencies should adopt data wrangling platforms and techniques in order to expedite analysis of big data workloads. Wilson wrote that such tools are designed to help agencies deal with a range of complex information and allow analysts to work directly with the avail...
David Rubal, a former vice president at Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), has been named chief technologist for data and analytics at Herndon, Virginia-based government technology services contractor DLT Solutions. DLT said Thursday Rubal will oversee the company™s data analytics, data science, big data and business intelligence portfolio...
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has appointed new board of directors and senior executives in support of the implementation of the company™s U.S. Access Plan strategy. Howard Lance, president and CEO of MDA, said in a statement released Monday the firm™s U.S. Access Plan seeks to pursue government contracts in order to provide informat...
Mark Anderson, formerly executive vice president of worldwide field operations at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), has been promoted to president at the Santa Clara, California-based firewall provider. Palo Alto Networks said Monday he will report directly to Chairman and CEO Mark McLaughlin and be responsible...
Matthew Jankowski, former account executive at Red Hat, has joined federal technology services contractor Iomaxis as senior vice president of business development. Iomaxis said Tuesday Jankowski will help form the company’s business development function and support sales growth. Jankowski holds 25 years of experience i...
June 27 – July 1 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson As massive the selloff was in global financial markets in the wake of June 23’s œBrexit vote in the U.K., so was the reversal in equities after investors took a deep breat...
