A subsidiary of Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has received a potential five-year, $81.3 million contract from the Health Resources and Services Administration to operate and maintain HRSA’s electronic handbooks system. Accenture Federal Services will work with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), DMI and Avanade as w...
Randy Wood, vice president of federal sales at application delivery networking platforms provider F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), has said that federal agencies should recognize application security as one of the key elements of an enterprise security strategy. Wood wrote that government information technology managers should consider the...
Robert Poulin, former president of digital technology firm Havas Helia, has joined AEEC as the inaugural chief revenue officer of the Reston, Virginia-based professional services contractor. AEEC said Oct. 7 said he will report directly to CEO Raj Patil and oversee brand visibility and expansion initiatives of the...
Tammy Torbert, world wide solutions architect of federal at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has said government agencies should implement next-generation security incident and event management platforms that work to facilitate cyber threat monitoring and analysis amid growth in data stores. Torbert wrote that SIEM is a suite of services desi...
Paul Anninos, formerly REI Systems‘ vice president for business development and marketing, has joined Abt Associates as the new VP and director of business development for its U.S. operations. Anninos has more than three decades of experience in business and operational leadership for both the government and commercial sect...
Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal sales at network visibility platforms provider Gigamon (NYSE: GIMO), has said government agencies should adopt cybersecurity platforms that work to provide œpervasive visibility into data across all networks in order to prevent data breaches. Reilly wrote that advanced persistent threat actors use a six-...
Tony Cole, vice president and global government chief technology officer at FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE), has said federal agencies should work to make their data infrastructures resilient to cyber attacks through the adoption of an œintelligence-driven security strategy. Cole wrote that implementing an intelligence-driven security approach calls for...
Paul Chapman, chief information officer at cloud storage firm Box (NYSE: BOX), has said government agencies should adopt œmicro-services to build digital applications that work to allow citizens and end users to share resources and collaborate on any device. Chapman wrote such micro-services aim to help organizations develop integrated shared s...
Kevin Davis, vice president of public sector at Splunk, has said government chief information officers and security officials should adopt an “analytics-driven approach†toward cybersecurity in order to facilitate real-time intelligence collection and gain more insight into their agencies’ networks. Davis wrote that impl...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 3, 2016 ” Parsons will participate at the DEF CON 24 event in Las Vegas from Aug. 4 to 7 as a sponsor of the Car Hacking Village activity, GovCon Executive reported Monday. The conference follows Black Hat USA 2016, where Parsons was also a presenter and exhibited its smart city and cybersec...
