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Booz Allen Hamilton, announced that it has capabilities to support AWS Outposts—fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with Amazon Web Services (AWS)-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on premises,… Continue reading Booz Allen Hamilton announces support for AWS Outposts
Booz Allen Hamilton announced that Jerry Bessette, a former senior cybersecurity official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has joined Booz Allen as a leader of the firm’s Commercial business. In his new role as a senior vice president, Bessette … Continue reading Booz Allen appoints Jerry Bessette as leader of the firm’s Commercial business
Databricks, the big data analytics service founded by the original developers of Apache Spark, today announced that it is bringing its Delta Lake open-source project for building data lakes to the Linux Foundation and under an open governance model. The company announced the launch of Delta Lake earlier this year and even though it’s still […] Continue reading Databricks brings its Delta Lake project to the Linux Foundation
Former NSA contractor Harold T. Martin was sentenced Friday to 9 years in prison for his role in a massive theft of classified documents. Martin was responsible for one of the largest leaks of U.S government secrets, after it was found that the former NSA contractor possessed up to 50 terabytes of classified government documents he collected over the course of two decades. Judge Richard Bennett’s sentence falls short of the maximum number of years Martin previously face — 10 years for each of the 20 counts against him — for unauthorized and willful retention of national defense information. However, the sentence aligns with the plea agreement his public defenders reached with the U.S. government. The U.S. attorneys said his theft called for “significant” prison time, according to the government’s sentencing memorandum, which CyberScoop obtained. “The exceptionally grave nature and circumstances of the defendant’s criminal conduct call for a significant […]
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RSA Conference, the world’s leading information security conferences and expositions, today announced the addition of nine new members to its Advisory Board for a total of 16 members across a wide array of positions in the industry. This expansion fall… Continue reading New additions to RSA Conference Advisory Board bring wealth of industry knowledge
Booz Allen Hamilton announced the availability of new mobility technology — District Defend — that uses security protocols to make the management of mobile devices like tablets in sensitive and classified environments easier and less complex. District … Continue reading Booz Allen launches District Defend, new location-aware technology
Government agencies looking to make better decisions from the data they collect have more resources within reach than they might suspect. But senior leaders need to take steps to identify the hidden data champions in their midst and encourage them to become catalysts in their organizations, according to a new report. “Data and analytics catalysts,” are those who have a “natural ability to drive change,” and are given the necessary foothold to help an organization understand the value of a “data-driven enterprise,” the report says. The report, released by Booz Allen Hamilton, suggests the most promising candidates are those who have instinctive leadership skills, have a flair for making sense of data, know how to engage stakeholders and are able to nurture talented individuals to join in their initiative. Agencies don’t need to create new positions or add staff, the report says, but focus instead on developing the talent and […]
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) has awarded two companies a $45 million contract to protect dams across the country from cyberattacks. Booz Allen Hamilton and Spry Methods, both based in McLean, Va., received the spots on the contract last week. NextGov first reported the award. The USBR, part of the Department of the Interior, manages the U.S.’s water-related resources, such as dams, power plants and canals. The two vendors were awarded a contract for indefinitely delivery and indefinite quantity of services for five years, helping the the office manage the security of 600 dams that the bureau built and oversees across 17 states. The contract covers Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation for the bureau. CDM is a Department of Homeland Security program that monitors and protects federal networks. BAH and Spry will also ensure the bureau complies with the Federal Information Security Management Act, manage the dams’ industrial control systems and oversee overall network security […]
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Booz Allen’s Dark Labs Advanced Threat Hunt team has developed an advanced technique to discover and block new variants of malware that poses a threat to organizations worldwide. Using an open source indicator of compromise (IOC), the research team was able to identify three additional variants of malware associated with APT34, a group thought to be involved in nation-state cyber-espionage, according to a technical brief from Booz Allen. The report describes how the team used a combination of open-source reporting and “acquired sources of threat intelligence,” then combined this information with its own tools to perform deep analysis on known APT34 behaviors. “The life cycle of an openly reported IOC does not end when an operator deploys the indicator to a sensor, or a threat hunter checks their security information and event manager (SIEM),” said the report’s authors, Chad Gray and Will Farrell. “Merging the IOC with internal or external […]
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A unique form of advanced persistent adware (APA) recently found by the Booz Allen Dark Labs’ Advanced Threat Hunt team is lurking on enterprise networks and can evade traditional forms of cyberdefenses. But a new report, published by the same team, offers methods to hunt and remove the adware in networks. The APA has been classified as an Advanced JavaScript-Based In-Memory Stage 1 Downloader because it is built on JavaScript, runs strictly in memory and functions as the downloader for the second stage of the APA’s attack. The adware is a previously known threat commonly used to inject advertisements into a user’s browser and covertly collect information about the user’s browsing activity. The first-stage loader could then be used to execute an arbitrary code easily repurposed for additional targeted attacks. The APA is unique because it leverages advanced techniques typically only seen in attacks attributed to nation-state advanced persistent threats. […]
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