Available in 30cm (12in) or 46cm (18in), the lightweight, small-footprint terminals couple high transmit and receive performance and reliability, enabling a wide range of communication opportunities for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), military mission aircraft, rotary-wing platforms and business jets.

COMSAT Expands Hardware Footprint with Orbit Multi-Purpose Terminals

COMSAT, a global satellite connectivity solutions provider is further expanding its international terminal, hardware and service footprint following with a new distribution agreement with global provider of airborne and maritime satellite...
Some DHS operations are using blockchain and distributed technologies to issue and verify credentials using open standards. These systems use credentials that may be issued by DHS and held in a digital wallet. DHS is looking for a UI design that supports best practices for visual consistency, ensures security and privacy, is interoperable, and can be integrated with existing back-end processes.

DHS S&T Launches Prize Challenge for Digital Wallet User Interfaces

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), which was recognized with Three 2019 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, is challenging innovators to design a better user interface...
The new award-winning features of the HALO IOT Smart Sensor include air quality monitoring, BACnet (a communication protocol for Building Automation and Control networks that leverage the ASHRAE, ANSI, and ISO 16484-5 standard protocol) integration and cleaning chemical signature verification.

HALO Unveils New Features to Aid in Safe Return to Work and School

IPVideo Corporation, a 2019 'ASTORS' Multiple Award Winner, is proud to announce the HALO IOT 2.2 Smart Sensor, now includes sound alert incident management incorporates alerts for spoken key words, advanced gunshot...
Availability bias is the human tendency to think that examples of things that come readily to mind are more representative than is actually the case, which can hamper critical thinking and, as a result, the validity of our decisions.

Minimizing Cognitive Bias in Cybersecurity

Guest OpEd by Margaret Cunningham, Principal Research Scientist, Forcepoint It is 7am, and ten minutes into the morning you have already dismissed the first round of notifications littering your screen. Respond, dismiss, delete,...

Funding Op for ‘Cyber Solutions for Energy Infrastructure’

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Israel Ministry of Energy, and the Israel Innovation Authority are seeking Proposals from the U.S.-Israel Center of Excellence in Energy, Engineering and Water Technology...
Brinqa Cyber Risk Services intelligently connect security, asset and threat data from all relevant sources to measure, prioritize, remediate and manage cyber risk. The solution provides a truly open data model and completely configurable risk scoring methodology. (Courtesy of Brinqa)

Brinqa Returns with Two Products to Compete in 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards

Brinqa™, a leader in Cyber Risk Management recognized in 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, is pleased to announce that Brinqa Cyber Risk Services and Brinqa Vulnerability Risk Service have been nominated...

7 Data Loss Prevention Strategies and Practices You Should Know

Guest OpEd by Gilad David Maayan, CEO and Founder of Agile SEO Data Loss Prevention (DLP) enables organizations to protect data against a wide range of losses, including theft, deletion, and modification....
Bad actors are targeting governments, schools, and other public institutions with extra venom. Ransomware is proving to be such a problem for the public sector primarily because of the rise of third-party cloud channels: social media tools, messaging apps, and collaboration platforms.

To Defeat Ransomware Threats, Public Sector Must Secure Cloud Channels

Guest Editorial by Otavio Freire, President, CTO and Co-Founder, SafeGuard Cyber Most organizations will suffer at least one ransomware attack in any given year. The average attack creates costs of over $730,000....
iboss, a New Competitor in the 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards, is the best choice for government entities for fast and secure connections for users from anywhere with a SASE platform that completely isolates network data traffic.

Fast and Secure Connectivity from Anywhere, Designed for Government

Guest OpEd by Paul Martini, iboss CEO, CTO, Co-Founder With increasing bandwidth, encrypted traffic, shifts to cloud applications like Office 365 and users that are no longer constrained to the government network,...

Rave Panic Button Adopted by NM to Improve School Safety Statewide

Rave Mobile Safety, a Multiple Award Winner in the 2019 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, nominated in three categories in the 2020 'ASTORS' Awards, has been selected by the state of New...