‘Leave No One Behind’ – BlackBerry’s New AtHoc Account (Video)

BlackBerry Limited, whose crisis communications platform AtHoc was the 2016 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Platinum Award Winner for Best Mass Notification System, is expanding the capabilities of its software to enable government agencies and...

Wannacry: An Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Digital Shadows

By Digital Shadows Analyst Team On 12 May 2017, as the WannaCry ransomware spread across computer networks across the world, a variety of explanations also began to worm their way through the...

DHS S&T to Hold Cybersecurity Industry Day on May 15 (Learn More)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will introduce its newest research and development solicitation call during a May 25 Industry Day event at the Mayflower Hotel...

Govplace & AppDynamics Help Drive CBP Dig Transformation (Learn More)

Govplace and AppDynamics have announced the implementation of Infrastructure Visibility and Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The implementation aims to provide unprecedented precision and real-time...

Smartlogic Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant

Smartlogic's world-class semantic platform Semaphore, has been positioned by Gartner, the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, as a Visionary in the 2017 Magic Quadrant...

CHERRY Smart Card Readers in ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards

CHERRY Americas LLC, part of a leading global manufacturer of reliable computer input devices, will include their complete line of secure CHERRY Smart Card reading devices as entries in the 2017...

BAE Assists US Treasury Safeguard National Security (Learn More, Video)

BAE Systems, is one of a group of federally-approved contractors that will have the opportunity to compete for task order contracts to assist Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI), in researching, analyzing,...

President Strengthens Cyber for Fed Networks & Critical Infrastructure

The Executive Order signed by the president on Thursday, "Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure," follows through on a key campaign promise made to the American people. It...

New Patent for Camera that Captures Both Iris Biometrics & Face Images

EyeLock LLC, has been issued U.S. Patent No. 9,646,217 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), that enables a single camera to acquire iris biometrics as well as a face...

Cyber Attacks Rose Sharply on Gov’t & Finance Sectors in 2016 (Learn More)

New research reveals that cyberattacks in the government sector doubled in 2016, hiking to 14 percent from 7 percent of all cyber security attacks in 2015. Attacks on the finance sector also rose...