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Skyview Capital has purchased Fidelis Cybersecurity, an automated threat detection and response technology provider to the government and commercial sectors, for an undisclosed sum. "This transaction aligns well with our investment philosophy of targeting and investing in mission critical technology businesses across a wide spectrum of verticals, from telecommunications to cybersecurity," said Alex Soltani, chairman and CEO of Skyview Capital.

Whitney, Bradley & Brown, a portfolio company of private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, has completed its acquisition of Arlington, Va.-based Decisive Analytics Corp. for an undisclosed sum.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2020 — SAP National Security Services CEO Mark Testoni said that government or commercial organizations that support many constituents or customers are potential targets if Iran perpetrates a cyberattack against the U.S. amid tensions between the two countries, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday.

A new Deltek report forecasts that the addressable information technology market for Department of Defense contractors will increase to $55.7B in fiscal year 2024 from $53B in FY19. Another report from the Herndon, Va.-based company predicts that the intelligence community will increase IT investments to $11B in FY24 from $9.9B in FY19.

MTS Advantage, a joint venture between Millennium Corp. and TIME Systems, has won a potential $99.9M contract to provide “red team” system vulnerability testing services to the U.S. Navy.

The total value of unclassified information technology contracts awarded by the federal government during its 2019 fiscal year increased by 6 percent to $69B and nearly $40B of the obligated funds came from the Department of Defense, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to purchase Symantec’s cybersecurity services business from Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) for an undisclosed sum.

An Iran government-linked hacking group targeted a website of the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program in retaliation for a drone strike in Iraq that resulted in the death of an Iranian major general, SiliconANGLE reported Sunday.

Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) has moved to expand its security portfolio through the acquisition of cyber risk analytics software provider Bay Dynamics, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 3, 2020 — ECS received a Platinum Technology Partner designation from Attivo Networks as part of a partnership aimed at introducing a deception platform to the government and commercial cybersecurity markets, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 23.