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An independent non-profit, StateRAMP will offer cloud security verification services to state and local government agencies.

By GCN Staff Jan 13, 2021 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants a geolocation dataset of U.S. businesses operating in sectors considered essential to U.S. homeland security. According to a Jan. 7 request for information, NGA said it’s looking for sources of commercial geospatial databases that could be integrated into the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) to inform senior leaders protecting the nation’s infrastructure. The data would support “operational, s...

YourStory [YS]: Tell us about FOSS United Foundation, and why did you start it?  Kailash Nadh [KN]: FOSS United was originally founded by Rushabh Mehta in 2016 as the ERPNext Foundation. Around the same time, Zerodha discovered ERPNext and decided to build its system on top of the ERPNext software.  This got us talking to the ERPNext team, and we gradually realised that we shared similar views on FOSS.  In early 2020, we co-organised a small FOSS conference in Bengaluru and realised we had t...

The number of federal agencies hit by the SolarWinds Orion breach will likely surpass last week’s White House’s tally of 10 affected agencies, according to William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.

Jan 13, 2021 This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast. First, it was a series of problems with government-issued technology in the field. Then it was a wave of complaints about duplicative work, arbitrary terminations and haphazard management practices. Now, Census Burea...

Apollo 11 expands tools to export Georgian intellectual resources to global market [Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan] Jan. 13—A significant agreement was signed between the Georgian software company Apollo 11 and the British IT consulting company Centigen Soft UK, as a result of which Centigen Soft UK became the largest shareholder of Apollo 11, the Apollo 11 told Trend. “Such a large-scale investment of British IT consulting company Centigen Soft UK in Apollo 11 company staffed entirely...

Open Source Software Leader the Eclipse Foundation Officially Transitions to EU-based Governance Leading open source foundation forms AISBL based in Brussels to serve as its global base of operations January 14, 2021 01:00 ET | Source: Eclipse Foundation Canada Eclipse Foundation Canada Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software fo...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Truera Appoints Senior Banking Data Leader to Executive Team, Opens Offices in Singapore and ... TrueraJanuary 13, 2021 GMT REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Truera, which provides the industry’s first ModelIntelligence platform, announced today that it has appointed Shameek Kundu as Head of Financial Services and Chief Strategy Officer. Kundu was previously with Standard Chart...

Community fork of KeePassX, the cross-platform port of KeePass for Windows. KeePassXC can store your passwords safely and auto-type them into your everyday websites and applications.

The risky business of open source Your application team should be aware of open source security risks, but do they understand this territory well? This video from application security company Veracode shows statistics about some of the key issues. Watch it to see a breakdown of open source libraries that make up the most significant portion of application code, the 10 most languages per library, statistics about dependency chains in different library types, and other informa...