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  • Joan Schwartz, Doug Dangremond Take VP Roles at QinetiQ Subsidiary Cyveillance
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    Joan Schwartz, Doug Dangremond Take VP Roles at QinetiQ Subsidiary Cyveillance

    Joan Schwartz and Doug Dangremond have joined QinetiQ subsidiary Cyveillance as vice presidents of human resources and sales, respectively. Schwartz formerly served as human resources director at Mandiant until that company was purchased by FireEye and Dangremond previously was a sales director at GTSI, Cyveillance said Monday. “There is an ever-growing need for organizations to employ global threat intelligence to […] More

  • Matthew Oostveen Named VCE Asia-Pacific, Japan CTO
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    Matthew Oostveen Named VCE Asia-Pacific, Japan CTO

    Matthew Oostveen, formerly director of research at IDC Australia, has joined VCE as chief technology officer for the company’s operations in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan. He spent six years in his role at IDC Australia and oversaw research in the firm’s telecommunications, software, verticals and infrastructure divisions, VCE announced Tuesday. “Asia Pacific and Japan is an exciting region […] More

  • Joseph Martore Joins Fairfax Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors
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    Joseph Martore Joins Fairfax Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors

    Joseph A. Martore, CALIBRE Systems Inc. president and chief executive officer, has been elected to join the board of directors of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce. Martore’s appointment builds on the company’s relationship with the chamber since 2005, CALIBRE said Friday. “The opportunity to serve on the Chamber’s Board is an honor and I […] More

  • Guillermo Gualino Named Agilent VP, Treasurer
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    Guillermo Gualino Named Agilent VP, Treasurer

    Guillermo Gualino has been promoted to serve as vice president and treasurer at Agilent Technologies from his most recent position of assistant treasurer. In his new role, Gualino will be in charge of the company’s treasury function and will report directly to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Didier Hirsch, the company announced Friday. Gualino replaces […] More

  • Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Designs Cyber Tool for Security Teams
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    Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Designs Cyber Tool for Security Teams

    Parsons Corp. has introduced a new cybersecurity product that is designed to send crash information from reports generated by Windows operating system to a server for analysis. The Cran product is built to analyze information and determine whether the crash was caused by a hacker, Parsons said Monday. Parsons unveiled patent-pending Cran at the Washington-based […] More

  • Robert Michalsky of NJVC: Holistic Approach Needed to Secure Patient Data
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    Robert Michalsky of NJVC: Holistic Approach Needed to Secure Patient Data

    Robert Michalsky, a cybersecurity principal at NJVC, has proposed a holistic approach to dealing with account takeovers, medical device intrusions, application break-ins, insurance fraud and other health information breaches. Along with HIPAA compliance, healthcare providers must also practice good information security hygiene and address policy gaps, Michalsky said Friday at the annual HIPAA summit in Washington. […] More

  • Chris Tucker: Exelis to Unveil ISR Products in Asia
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    Chris Tucker: Exelis to Unveil ISR Products in Asia

    Exelis will unveil its latest innovations in Singapore this week, seeking to present advances in electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology that Chris Tucker, vice president of international business development, hopes will entice new partners in the region. “We are excited to strengthen existing relationships and develop new ones during the Singapore Airshow,” […] More

  • Andrew MacDonald of Serco: Self-Service Tech Key to Customer Relationships, Data Analysis
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    Andrew MacDonald of Serco: Self-Service Tech Key to Customer Relationships, Data Analysis

    Businesses should pay more attention to customer needs in a highly competitive climate, according to Andrew MacDonald, director of service design at Serco. MacDonald says in a white paper that self-service technology could push enterprises to seek out data analysis technology in order to get a better understanding of consumer behavior and decision-making. Knowing what a […] More

  • Oliver McGee: Cyber About ‘Protecting the Critical Infrastructure of America’
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    Oliver McGee: Cyber About ‘Protecting the Critical Infrastructure of America’

    Former Transportation Department official Oliver McGee warned against rising instances of online attacks on enterprises, utilities and educational institutions in an interview with GSN magazine published Thursday. “Cybersecurity is about protecting the critical infrastructure of America, which is our food, water, finances, healthcare, transportation, businesses, shopping, personal identities and records, schools and colleges,” said McGee, who served deputy assistant transportation […] More

  • Deltek’s Chris Dixon: Tech Vendors Should Factor Risk Into Consortium Procurements
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    Deltek’s Chris Dixon: Tech Vendors Should Factor Risk Into Consortium Procurements

    Government contracting analyst Chris Dixon believes there is potential as well as risk for technology vendors working with consortium-based buyers and they must include several factors in their risk assessments, he writes in a column published Saturday  by the Washington Post. Dixon, a senior manager at Deltek, writes state and local governments buy as a […] More

  • Red Hat’s Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen on Open Source in Gov’t
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    Red Hat’s Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen on Open Source in Gov’t

    Open source technology is slowly finding its way into the public sector as governments seek to build infrastructures based on those tools, says Red Hat’s Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, senior vice president and general manager for the Asia-Pacific region. Part of the appeal is that the open source model promotes transparency and collaboration, and can be used […] More

  • Pharmacy Chains, Orgs to Back Blue Button Program
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    Pharmacy Chains, Orgs to Back Blue Button Program

    Five major pharmacy chains and three pharmacy associations have agreed to support the Blue Button initiative as the federal government aims to spur development of new healthcare data applications in the private sector, Fedscoop reported Friday. Scott Maucione writes the Department of Health and Human Service has worked with more than 70 pharmacy organizations to publish a guideline for […] More