Tag Archives: cybersecurity

Enlightenment Capital has invested in System High to help drive the security company’s growth efforts in the government and commercial markets. Chantilly, Va.-based System High offers security engineering, cybersecurity, proactive protection and counterintelligence services, Enlightenment said Tuesday. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Jason Rigoli, an Enlightenment Capital partner, …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 22, 2018 — NTT Data Services‘ public sector subsidiary will work to deliver information technology services to the U.S. Army through its position on the potential $12.1B Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – 3 Services procurement vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday NTT Data Services Federal Government secured a …

Tom Padgett and Laura Grant of SAP (NYSE: SAP) have said agencies should partner with a cloud service provider with a capability to innovate and offer security. Grant and Padgett wrote about the potential benefits to agencies of handing the responsibility to innovate to cloud providers. “By shifting that responsibility …

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has agreed to acquire Fulcrum IT Services for an undisclosed sum in a move to grow predictive threat analytics and situational awareness offerings for the government sector. The deal is expected to be completed in February and would add cybersecurity, software development, big data, special operations and engineering …

Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on Navy Secretary Richard Spencer‘s speech at the Surface Navy Association’s Annual National Symposium. Spencer, a 2019 Wash100 winner, said at the SNA event that the Navy needs a sense of urgency and to ramp up speed and rate of change to address …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 16, 2018 — The U.S. arm of BAE Systems aims to establish a new innovation hub in Georgia that will be housed at the state’s Augusta-based cyber complex as part of efforts to expand its presence in the region, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday BAE Systems Inc. …

Matt Preschern, formerly senior vice president of marketing at CA Technologies, has joined Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity firm Forcepoint as chief marketing officer. He will report to Forcepoint CEO Matthew Moynahan and oversee the company’s sales enablement, revenue generation, brand awareness and other global marketing initiatives, the company said Tuesday. Moynahan …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 9, 2018 — Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has said commercial software development could be a key focus of the Department of Defense in 2019 as it works to accelerate weapons systems procurement, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “Focusing on commercial-style …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 8, 2018 — David Egts, chief technologist for the North American public sector business at Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), has identified open source training as an approach that the federal government can take to advance the cybersecurity and information technology skills of its workforce, ExecutiveBiz reported …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 4, 2018 — Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) has been named a founding partner of the World Economic Forum’s Center for Cybersecurity in support of international efforts to drive collaboration between industry, government, academia and civil society to counter cyber crime, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday its Founder, …