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On January 12, 2018, GSA (General Services Administration) posted a request for public comment regarding updates to the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation that will include new cybersecurity compliance and reporting requirements for… Continue reading General Services Administration (GSA) Pointing to New IT Security Rules for Contractors
We’ve been working with Carahsoft for years, but are proud to make things “official” today as we tap them to help us extend our reach. We are the leader in virtualization-based security that delivers application isolation and containm… Continue reading Carahsoft Named Official Distributor for Bromium Virtualization-Based Security
Federal procurement of cybersecurity goods and services is highly fragmented, according to new research published this week, with more than 7,600 different companies winning U.S. government contracts during the past six years. But despite this long tail of small awards, the market space is dominated by a handful of familiar names. Only six contractors — Leidos, Northrup Grumman, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Hewlett Packard and General Dynamics — earned a billion dollars or more in cyber contracts from the U.S. government in fiscal 2011-16, according to the new report from Govini, a consultancy that crunches procurement numbers. “Acquisition of cybersecurity solutions is highly fragmented now,” Arun Sankaran, Govini’s director of professional services, told CyberScoop. He was the lead author of the report, which analyzes the $45.9 billion obligated between 2011-2016 in three categories of federal cybersecurity spending: defense, resilience and threat analytics. Spending rose significantly in the second half of that period, from an average of $6.3 billion […]
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The head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service is speaking up for 18F — the agency’s under-fire IT swat team — and vowing to change the cybersecurity rules that a watchdog accused 18F of ignoring. TTS Commissioner Rob Cook told CyberScoop that GSA was working to overhaul the IT security rules that 18F’s leadership flouted. “We will be […]
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Agencies across the U.S. government are increasingly looking to migrate their data into the cloud to cut costs, but doing so has also introduced new cybersecurity challenges, federal executives said Wednesday during Verizon’s Government of the Future conference produced by FedScoop. Each government agency is defined by a very specific mission set, explained Census Bureau […]
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