SRA Deals Smart Phone Security Suite, Plans Govt Comm. Across Devices
SRA International has spent the past few years helping develop a hardware-based system of security tools for the smart phones of its government customers. This week, it closed a transaction to sell its stake in the system’s application suite and send an engineering team to R&D partner KoolSpan. KoolSpan manufactures a chip that slides into [...]
White Oak Technologies announced yesterday the appointment of Michael Fox as the new chief strategy officer and senior vice president of the company’s corporate business development. Fox joins WOTI from Attain LLC, where he held a similar position. According to WOTI, a technology solutions provider for the intelligence community, Fox will use his extensive industry [...]
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security kicked off its seventh annual cybersecurity conference this week in Nashville. The Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams conference is hosted by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and brings together the top information security professionals and government officials to discuss the latest in cybersecurity news, trends [...]
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SRA International, Inc. (NYSE: SRX) has won the Special Operations Research, Development and Acquisition Center Science and Technology task order under the Global Battlestaff and Program Support vehicle from Defense Department’s Special Operations Command. Under the task order, SRA will provide experienced scientists, engineers and project management specialists for programs under the Science and Technology’s [...]
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The iPad undoubtedly became one of the most-hyped products of last year, with a seemingly never-ending popularity. When legions of government employees embrace what some have dubbed the new BlackBerry for federal workers, government contractors specializing in computer and mobile security have found themselves increasingly busy with developing new applications and systems to protect the [...]
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The Stuxnet worm does not seem to have impacted any systems in the United States, according to a Department of Defense official Greg Schaffer, assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at DHS, told reporters the complex malware demonstrates the plethora of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. “It was a very tiered, very complex, very sophisticated virus,” he told the [...]
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Smartphone security company M.A.D. Partners, LLC and SRA International, Inc. have announced a collaboration in which SRA will be able to offer federal customers various services to protect and secure iPhones and iPads. M.A.D’s Mobile Enterprise Compliance and Security Server locks down iPhones and iPads, as well as multiple platforms of smartphone and tablet devices, [...]
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Stuxnet, the malicious Internet worm that targeted Iran’s critical infrastructure and demonstrated the potential for a cyber attack to wreak havoc, has been generating a lot of buzz lately as a “game-changer.” But SRA International‘s Adam Meyers, who heads the leading IT security firm’s cybersecurity wing, said Stuxnet really wasn’t all that game-changing. “Stuxnet, which [...]
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Stephen Synnott has joined USIS, an Altegrity company, as director of intelligence analysis and technology solutions. Synnott reports to USIS Security Solutions Division President Mike Fraser and is based in Falls Church, Va. “Steve’s experience in the intelligence analysis space and strategic vision within the intelligence analysis and technology mission areas are a perfect fit [...]
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