Jane Edwards

Dell has received a certification from the Defense Department that allows it to deploy its SonicWall series of firewalls across DoD-operated computer networks. Dell said Wednesday its firewall platform received the department’s Unified Capabilities Approved Products List certification after it passed the Security Technical Implementation Guide tests that seek to ensure the secure maintenance and installation of hardware […] More

The U.S. Navy has announced plans to award potential five-year basic ordering agreements to contractors that can provide support services for the Naval Air Systems Command’s Cyber Warfare Detachment. The Navy said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday the BOAs will cover cyber workforce development, research and development, implementation of the Defense Department’s risk management […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit proposals for a potential four-year, $77 million program that aims to develop systems that will work to detect and respond to cyber attacks on the U.S. power grid. DARPA posted the broad agency announcement for the Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems program on […] More

The U.K. national crime agency used a Serco-built cyber platform for a one-week exercise intended to train and test the participants’ capability to detect and respond to cyber attacks. Serco’s cybX works to simulate cyber network vulnerabilities in an effort to assess an organization’s response and management strategy in the event of a cyber attack, Serco said […] More