The Pentagon with the Washington Monument and National Mall in the background. As the Department of Defense works on the contours of a threat hunting program for defense contractors, old debates about the role of government involvement in private sector cybersecurity reemerge. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Senior Airman Perry Aston)
Companies that participate in a potential Pentagon program to conduct threat hunting across the defense industrial base should be protected from legal liability and be given additional financial or technical support to ensure small businesses arenât crowded out, an industry group is arguing.
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission issued dozens of recommendations to policymakers last year, many of which made it into Congressâ annual defense authorization legislation. One of the provisions that made it into the final law requires the secretary of defense to deliver a report by September, laying out the feasibility of a DoD-led threat hunting program that
Mandiant reported that the compromises involving Pulse Secure’s VPN appliances were at organizations across the defense, government, high tech, transportation and financial sectors.
Smithers' a new information security services department will focus on delivering auditing certification services for NIST SP 800-171 and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, as well as other offerings.
At a Senate hearing on Defense Department cybersecurity, lawmakers wanted to know whether a program aimed at hardening the security of the defense industrial base would thwart supply chain attacks.
Final RFP Released for $50B Health IT-Focused CIO-SP4 Contract JHVEPhoto/istockphoto
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The governmentwide IT contract is geared toward health-related programs but can be used by any federal agency.
The final solicitation for the fourth generation governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, targeted toward health IT tools and services was released this week with $50 billion in contracting opportunities spread across 10 task areas.
The request for proposals for the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 4, or CIO-SP4, contract had been delayed for months while the documents made the rounds of relevant officials. Program managers at the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, or NITAAC, said the delays were caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as the documents needed to be approved by officials at various agencies who were either not always readily available or the