Tag Archives: data protection

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 3, 2018 — Carahsoft Technology has added Dell EMC‘s data protection tools to its offerings under the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle as part of the special item number for continuous diagnostics and mitigation services, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Dell EMC’s data protection technologies, which …

Matthew Schneider, senior director of government, education and healthcare at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said agencies seeking to modernize their information technology infrastructure should know more about the security and behavior of their applications and eliminate apps’ reliance on the physical infrastructure. “When an application is independent of the infrastructure, agencies have the …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 4, 2018 — Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) has launched a platform that will work to help users manage, protect and recover critical information in efforts to limit damage in case of cyber attacks, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Iron Cloud Critical Protection and Recovery is …

Kevin Davis, vice president for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), has said government agencies seeking to comply with cybersecurity policies and data protection regulations should deploy a platform that works to automate the collection and analysis of large volumes of data. Davis wrote that implementing an automated system for compliance monitoring could …

Julie Brill, former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, has been named corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for privacy and regulatory affairs at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). Brill will directly report to Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft, and will begin her new position by the …

John De Santis, chairman and CEO of HyTrust, has said government agencies should adopt a strategic approach to security when moving to the cloud through the implementation of security platforms and controls that work to “enforce security policy” against cyber threats. “By deploying software to continuously enforce policies in real time, …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 10, 2017 — Rob Roy, chief technology officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s (NYSE: HPE) U.S. federal cybersecurity team, has highlighted five cybersecurity areas that he believes the federal government should focus on in 2017, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The cyber workforce, industry partnerships, acquisition and modernization of information technology, …

Robert Potter, vice president of Americas sales at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), has said that government agencies should develop cyber resilience plans in an effort to mitigate problems and address security gaps associated with the integration of new technology platforms into the infrastructure. Potter wrote that agencies should start addressing such …

Thales Group has closed its acquisition of San Jose, California-based data protection technology vendor Vormetric after the French conglomerate obtained regulatory clearance for the estimated $424 million transaction. Patrice Caine, CEO of Thales, said in a statement issued Thursday the company will integrate Vormetric into its e-Security business in a push to help organizations secure …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 11, 2015 — Carahsoft Technology will offer Dataguise‘s DgSecure data protection technology to government agencies via its General Services Administration schedule contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Dataguise said Tuesday DgSecure works to protect sensitive information at the data level amid threats arising from the increased adoption of cloud and big …