MetTel has received authorization from the General Services Administration and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to help federal customers connect to a network in accordance with the government’s Trusted Internet Connection guidelines. The company said Thursday it obtained authority to operate from the two agencies to offer ...

Potomac Officers Club (POC), the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its CIO Forum 2021 on Wednesday, April 7th. If you missed the 2nd Annual CIO Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting Potomac Officers Club’s Event Archi...

The Potomac Officers Club will facilitate a discussion on digital transformation and innovation during its 2nd Annual CIO Forum, with speakers from Lockheed Martin, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Department of Commerce and Tricentis. Jose Padin, director of sales engineering at Zscaler‘s public sector business, will ...

Matthew Travis, former deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, will serve as the first CEO of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body starting April 1. CMMC-AB said Monday that Travis will lead day-to-day operations of CMMC-AB in line with the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity vetting ...

A draft of an executive order would direct software companies to inform federal agency clients in the event of a cyber attack within their organizations, keep more digital records and work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI on incident response efforts, Reuters reported Friday. The order would require multifactor a...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 15, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), said agencies need to develop a tailored approach for protecting and monitoring traffic as more government information technology users connect from devices beyond the network perimeter, ExecutiveBiz repo...

The White House is considering forming a task force to address a cyber attack on on-premise Microsoft Exchange Servers launched by a group of threat actors operating from China, CNN reported Sunday. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) issued security updates after it found that a state-sponsored threat actor from China, called Hafnium, was targeting defense co...

Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, recently stated that Congress should enable the agency’s shared services office to centralize common, internet-facing services across civilian agencies. To support this initiative, Krebs noted that CISA’s existing quality serv...

President Joe Biden plans to appoint former Obama administration officials Jen Easterly, Robert Silvers and Eric Goldstein to top three cybersecurity positions, Politico reported Friday. Sources said Biden is likely to name Easterly to the newly created role of national cyber director at the White House to help guide the current administration’s c...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has asked industry for information on available communications capabilities as it plans to recompete $500 million in contracts for priority voice, data and video communications and information services during natural disasters and national security emergencies, Bloomberg Government reported Friday...