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QuSecure has announced a Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX directorate to provide access to QuProtect, a post-quantum cryptography software-based solution. The offering provides end-to-end protection to encrypted communications and data on cloud, edge, internet of things, network and satellite communications devices, QuSecure said. Organizations can use QuProtect to […]

A joint advisory from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has warned that hackers are deploying the Androxgh0st malware to maliciously gather credentials from popular applications, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Office 365, in a bid to create a powerful computer bug. The Androxgh0st malware has compromised about 40,000 hosts, […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general said in a report that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency needs to improve its partnerships with the environmental sector to mitigate cyberthreats to water and wastewater services. According to the Office of Inspector General’s report, CISA failed to share its cybersecurity expertise with the Environmental Protection Agency […]

Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, announced that the United States and the European Union have agreed on a cyber trust labeling program for consumer internet of things devices. Speaking at the CES conference earlier in January, she said the joint roadmap signed by the two sides is an initiative […]

The U.S. Department of the Interior has awarded software-as-a-service company Exiger and cybersecurity service provider InterSec a five-year, $7 million contract to provide labor and software for enterprise cyber supply chain risk management solutions.  The competitive contract award is the first team-up between the Washington, D.C.-based Exiger and Leesburg, Virginia-based InterSec. According to Carrie Wibben, […]

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a woman-owned small business a contract to improve operational resiliency and protect operational technology systems from cyberthreats. On Thursday, Sentar announced that it received a Small Business Innovation Research Proof of Concept contract from DLA to integrate cyberattack protection technology into digital twin architectures. The contract requires a business […]

Boston-based cloud security provider iboss has launched the Government Protective DNS Module, an offering designed to give government agencies advanced threat detection and encrypted domain name system capabilities across devices. According to iboss, the module provide unique internet protocol addresses per government agency, which is needed for integration with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s […]

Peraton has secured a contract for cyberspace operations support for the U.S. Army Cyber, the U.S. Cyber Command and mission partners. The contractor will provide program management, intelligence support, cyber operations support, security operations and training, among other tasks. Work under the contract would give ARCYBER an information advantage by enabling decision-making dominance in the […]

Cybersecurity company BreakPoint Labs has announced that it will provide zero trust oversight support to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General under a potential 5.5-year contract. DHS awarded the contract under the General Services Administration’s Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services vehicle, BreakPoint said Monday. The company is expected to conduct technical security […]

A United States intelligence community watchdog has identified policy guidance and technical concerns as factors plaguing federal agencies’ threat information-sharing strategies. Released on Friday, a report by the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community assessed how federal agencies share threat information and defensive measures according to a framework stemming from the Cybersecurity […]