The Center for Strategic and International Studies has released a report recommending that the United States and South Korea develop a new mechanism to advance their cyber defense cooperation. According to the study, cyber defense cooperation options are limited under the two countries’ Mutual Defense Treaty, as currently being pursued through the U.S.-South Korea Strategic...
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New Guidebooks Issued on Data and Network Security Platforms
The U.S. National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI have authored new guidebooks with their allied counterparts for cybersecurity executives and network defenders on implementing platforms for SIEM/SOAR, short for security information and event management/security orchestration, automation and response. SIEM tools gather and correlate log data to enable network defenders...
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Ex-ServiceNow Exec Tim Clemens Joins CrowdStrike as Horizon Unit Regional VP
Texas-based IT and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has recruited former ServiceNow executive Tim Clemens to its Horizon Business Unit. Clemens said in a LinkedIn post Friday that he will serve as the unit’s vice president for Asia Pacific and Japan. The executive described Horizon as “CrowdStrike’s most dynamic innovation engine,” with significant opportunities in the cybersecurity...
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New NATO Digital Foundry Project to Seek Industry Collaboration
The NATO Communications and Information Agency will organize the NATO Digital Foundry project to open opportunities for collaboration on new technologies with industry, nonprofits and other alliance stakeholders. According to Antonio Calderon, NCIA chief technology officer, the project is an offshoot of the agency’s first technology strategy for NATO to acquire innovative digital capabilities for...
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French Consortium to Launch Cybersecurity Tool for Connected Equipment
The French consortium HyGARDE expects to unveil by yearend its first prototype of a cybersecurity solution to protect connected equipment, a goal initially focused on securing technologies for the renewable energy transition. The prototype will be used to secure the equipment of Solutions Hydrogene, a company that provides renewable hydrogen storage systems for industrial and...
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Airbus Beefs Up Cybersecurity Business With infodas Acquisition
Airbus Defence and Space has announced plans to purchase German cybersecurity company Infodas to boost its cybersecurity services in the European and global markets. The rapid rise in cyberthreats coupled with increased digitalization and connectivity have made cybersecurity pivotal to the company’s future growth, the company said. In a separate statement, the shareholders of Cologne-based...
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Carahsoft to Deliver Qmulos Risk Management Automation Solutions to Canada; Matt Coose Quoted
Carahsoft will offer Qmulos compliance, security and risk management automation solutions to the Canadian government as part of an expanded partnership. Qmulos products and services include the Q-Compliance platform, which analyzes data to identify compliance gaps and security weaknesses, and the Q-Audit platform for insider threat management. Both applications are powered by Splunk and are...
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Charles Fielden to Head QinetiQ’s Intelligence, Cyber and Information Advantage Business; Shawn Purvis Quoted
QinetiQ US has appointed Charles Fielden as executive vice president and general manager of the McLean, Virginia-based defense solutions company’s intelligence, cyber and information advantage department. Shawn Purvis, QinetiQ president and CEO and a Potomac Officers Club member and Wash 100 winner, said Fielden brings in more than 25 years of experience as an Intelligence...
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Australia Partners With Microsoft to Create Cyber Intelligence Sharing Platform
Australia has unveiled a collaborative effort between the Australian Signals Directorate and Microsoft to beef up the country’s cybersecurity. Under the partnership program, ASD connected its Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing platform with Microsoft Sentinel, allowing the latter’s Australian users to immediately share cyberthreat information on the combined systems. According to ASD, the collaboration provides access...
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US, Finland Sign MoU to Exchange Data, Best Practices on Cybersecurity
The United States and Finland have agreed to exchange cybersecurity information to strengthen both nations’ resilience against current and emerging threats. On March 13, representatives from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Finnish Ministry of Finance signed a cybersecurity cooperation memorandum of understanding. “This partnership will help Treasury protect the financial sector from...