Salient Subsidiary Unveils IPv6 Security System; Bob Friedenberg Comments
A Salient Federal Solutions subsidiary has developed two new cyber security solutions that build on the Assure6 family of products designed to detect and fend off IPv6 attacks through the IPv4 traditional network. Salient Commercial Solutions built the Assure6/4000 to use CloudShield‘s packet processing technology on CS4000 and the Assure6/2000 for packet processing technology on [...]
SAIC Subsidiary, Salient Team Aiming To Help Secure IPv6 Nets; David Helms, Randy Brumfield Comment
February 21, 2013 No Comment
Science Applications International Corp. subsidiary and Salient Federal Solutions have developed a new cybersecurity platform intended to help government and commercial clients manage network risks. Salient will present Salient Assure6, which uses CloudShield Technologies’ Deep Packet Processing technology, at the RSA Conference to be held in San Francisco from Feb. 25 to March 1, Salient said [...]
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Cisco is providing an electric utility a communications network for a pilot program aimed at implementing a new smart grid, the company said Tuesday. National Grid, which provides power to 3.4 million Northeast customers, selected Cisco’s network to work with Itron’s smart grid system for the project, which Cisco said is scheduled to deploy in [...]
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Salient to Provide Technical Guidance for DTIC IPv6 Transition; Bill Parker Comments
December 4, 2012 No Comment
Salient Federal Solutions Inc. has been awarded a subcontract to help the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) transition to IPv6, according to the company statement. The company will provide technical services on a network-wide project, which will be implemented by prime contractor Chickasaw Advisory Service LLC. “We are proud to be able to support DTIC in its mission [...]
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IBM has entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement with BlueCat Networks, allowing the two companies to partner and leverage each other’s inventions in order to foster innovation in IP address management, ensuring a smooth and successful transition to IPv6. “IBM has been the leading recipient of U.S. patents for 18 consecutive years and is committed [...]
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Salient Federal Solutions was awarded a multi-year prime contract to impletement Assure6 product suite into the U.S. Air Force information technology systems. Salient’s Assure6 cybersecurity policy manager is built to detect and block malicious IPv6 attacks. It will assist the Air Force Networks in defense from costly cyber attacks generated by the requirements of legacy [...]
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Executive Mosaic, publisher of The New New Internet and other web properties related to government contracting, has announced the launch of the latest issue of GovConExec magazine, which highlights the insider threat, emerging federal IT topics and data breach remedies. From yesterday’s clandestine spies to today’s insidious insiders, the cover story spotlights how malicious actors [...]
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Wired magazine calls it the “nerdiest holiday ever” and the “biggest geek party since Pi Day,” but around the world, some are taking World IPv6 Day very seriously. “Granted it isn’t up there with the World Cup final, or the opening ceremony of the Olympics, but today many of the key players, including Google, Facebook, [...]
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In a Sept. 28, 2010 memo, federal CIO Vivek Kundra laid out specific steps for agencies to expedite the operational deployment and use of IPv6 — the so-called Next Generation Net, which is an updated infrastructure of the current system, IPv4. Designed to provide new services and capabilities, the new protocol would extend the available IP [...]
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