2023 ‘ASTORS’ Award Winner the Getac B360, is a modern fully rugged laptop designed for field service, utilities, manufacturing, military and public safety markets that require both the raw computing power and the versatility and mobility that comes with a lighter, more compact fully rugged package. (Courtesy of Getac)

Rugged Laptops: What Defense and First Responders Should Look For

Guest Editorial by Mike McMahon, President, Getac North America With law enforcement and first response data being targeted by bad actors and the growing threat of cyberspace being used as a theater...
Björn Lidefelt, EVP and Head of HID

2023 ‘ASTORS’ Champ HID Enhances its PKI Offerings with ZeroSSL

HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, and a Double Award Champion in the 2023' ASTORS' Awards Program, has acquired ZeroSSL, an Austria-based SSL certificate provider. This new acquisition will...
Public safety deserves a technology solution that also operates as a true partner to combat the industry's biggest challenges. Mark43 is here to provide superior innovation, resiliency, security, interoperability, accessibility, and value so that you can focus on what matters most: serving your communities.

Warren (Ohio) PD Launches Mark43 Records Management System

Mark43, a leading cloud-native public safety software company that took home Top Awards for Best Disaster Preparedness and Disaster Recovery Solution in the 2023 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, is pleased...
Discover how DHS S&T is Investing in Arctic Research with the Creation of a New Center of Excellence (COE) for Homeland Security.

DHS Awards UAA to Launch New ADAC-ARCTIC Center of Excellence

The homeland security challenges in the Arctic region are rapidly evolving. To aid citizens and operators in the region, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), a Multi-Award...
Many agencies see the benefit of training in their own backyard and acclimating their pilots to their own area of operations. FLYMOTION offers custom training courses for organizations across the world merging the traditional classroom environment with realistic environments.

Power of Flexible Tech: Applying Conference Room Tech to Front Lines

Guest Editorial by Luke Reeves, Content Creator at FLYMOTION As a veteran-owned end-to-end advanced technology solution provider, our team of veterans and former first responders at FLYMOTION aren’t afraid to push technology’s...
Entro Security is the Secrets Management platform that finally lets you take control of your secrets across vaults, code, chats and platforms.

Entro Security Newest Competitor in 2024 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program

Entro Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup offering secrets security and management, is pleased to announce the company has been Nominated to Compete in the 2024 'ASTORS' Homeland Security, Public Safety, and...
Craig Debban, CISO of 2023 ’ASTORS’ Awards Champion QuSecure, and a former Information Systems Management Officer in the United States Marine Corp, shares some tips for AST readers to consider so cyber criminals cannot ruin your holiday season!

‘ASTORS’ Champion QuSecure: Tips to Stay Safe this Holiday Season

Guest Editorial by Craig Debban, Chief Information Security Officer of QuSecure Have you ever been on a trip and realized you forgot to pack something important? It’s easy to overlook things during...
Unlike other XDR products that rely heavily on endpoint detection and response solutions to identify threats, the Stellar Cyber Open XDR platform augments EDR alert data with native threat detection with built-in NDR, UEBA, IDS, Sandbox analysis, and TIP to deliver the critical security capabilities required to keep a business secure without complexity. Blackberry Cylance and Stellar Cyber combine two innovative solutions in a proper 1 + 1 = 3 formula.

Stellar & Blackberry Join to Deliver Open XDR to MSSPs and Enterprise

Stellar Cyber, a Double Platinum 'ASTORS' Award Champion in the 2023 Homeland Security Awards Program, and the innovator of Open XDR, has entered into a new partnership with BlackBerry to deliver...
Many public sector organizations still aren’t following recommendations made a decade ago, much less following current recommendations. Often if fortunate enough to have effective information technology/cybersecurity resources (and most public sector organizations, especially smaller agencies, do not) the requests made by these professionals often are rejected out of hand because those at the leadership level find them too bothersome or too expensive, or both.

The Top Five Scariest Public Sector Cybersecurity Trends

Guest Editorial by Richard Osborne and Jason Franks Cybersecurity for public-sector organizations — i.e., those in the public safety and justice communities — is a big, messy problem that is getting bigger...
The IT industry is grappling for a solution to all of the above, and to help mitigate and stay ahead of any potential for a data breaches. Venkat Thummisi, Co-founder and CTO, of Inside Out Defense outlines Ten Important Issues IT teams need to consider when developing their data security posture.

Data Breaches on Rise:  Employee Access Leaves Companies Vulnerable

Guest Editorial by Venkat Thummisi, Co-founder and CTO, of Inside Out Defense Just in time for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the number one threat vector for data breaches needs a closer look: employee...