By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements are here, and the clock is ticking for organizations affected by them. Per the Department of Defense’s estimates, starting in Q1 2025, all new DOD contracts will require self-assessment at CMMC Level 1 or Level 2 before award. By Q3 2...
By Kim Koster, Vice President of Industry Marketing at Unanet In fiscal year 2023, the U.S. federal government delivered a record $765 billion in contract awards. Almost all of these are competed over and require extensive investment to even be in consideration for the award. As a consequence, government contracting companies must not spread ...
Bob Ritchie is a fast learner. The technologist started at SAIC as an intern fresh out of a Virginia Tech computer engineering degree and only three years later was the chief software architect assisting the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, wherein he helped digitally transform preexisting Department of Defense tactical decision and command and control,...
Doug Steele, vice president of federal sales at Noname Security, said government agencies advancing digital transformation efforts should have complete visibility into their application programming interfaces to protect sensitive data from threat actors and other cyber vulnerabilities. In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Steele wrote that comp...
Within recent years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has continuously pushed for technology modernization. New technologies present a wide range of benefits for health care agencies, from enhancing the customer experience to protecting patient data from cyber threats. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Healthcare Summit on Dec....
Election season is ramping up, and as November approaches, U.S. adversaries are searching for ways to exert their influence on the outcome. To prevent the dangerous consequences of potential security vulnerabilities flying under the radar, the Intelligence Community is heavily monitoring the actions of foreign nations seeking to undermine U.S. elect...
OPSWAT has acquired InQuest in line with its efforts to boost its cybersecurity capabilities. The critical infrastructure cybersecurity company said Wednesday the acquisition, which was announced during the recent Black Hat USA conference, is aimed at enhancing OPSWAT’s ability to defend against network-based threats. The move is also intended...
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded three companies positions on a potential seven-year, $1.9 billion blanket purchase agreement to provide information technology and program management support services for the Enterprise Program Management Office. According to award notices published on the Federal Procurement Data System, Noblis, Deloitte Con...
The first delivery of the Department of Defense’s CJADC2 initiative could be realized this fall during the twelfth round of the Pentagon’s Global Information Dominance Experiment, according to GIDE Director Col. Matt Strohmeyer. “Our goal is to deliver 1.0 of CJADC2 this fall during GIDE 12,” said Strohmeyer during a panel discussion mo...
James Imanian, senior director of the U.S. Federal Technology Office at CyberArk (Nasdaq: CYBR), said government agencies looking to implement a zero trust architecture should understand the importance of privileged access management and its key role in such an approach. In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Imanian noted that privileged access...
