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Geopolitical risks could present new opportunities for CIOs: Gartner

CIO

Some of the key focus areas for CIOs, according to Gartner, are digital sovereignty, helping build a local technology industry, running a risk center and provide understanding of cyberspace in different nations. These policies can lead to CIOs being mandated to buy from certain vendors. IT Leadership

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2 Innovations That Can Tip the Balance in Cybersecurity

CIO

Cyber threats are increasingly automated using advanced technology. Eliminating or reducing the advantage that cyber offense has over defense is critical to creating a more stable cyberspace. This is not just a theoretical exercise. It is something all of us in cybersecurity need to understand — and a key national security priority.

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Shining some light on By Light IT Professional Services

FedSavvy

By Light serves government customers in the Defense, Intelligence and Federal Health sectors and provides solutions in artificial intelligence (AI); cloud and managed services; communications; cyberspace operations; IT services; live, virtual constructive (LVC) training; modeling and simulation (M&S); and software services. Navy and U.S.

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CIOs sharpen tech strategies to support hybrid work

CIO

In its Future of Work predictions for 2023 , IDC called hybrid work “a mainstay for our global future work landscape,” adding that “hybrid work will drive new technology solutions across functions and industries alike.” Other reports confirm that hybrid work is here to stay.

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Empowering cyber resilience in education: Three strategies for the future

CIO

The question is: How do you use technology safely, and how do you take responsibility for your personal actions in cyberspace? The challenge is exacerbated by the fact that our high-speed networks and powerful workstations provide fertile soil for botnets to spread harm broadly and quickly. That the request makes sense?

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Major wins and losses in GOVCON – FedSavvy edition April 2024

FedSavvy

Amentum wins Army takeaway contract In October 2023, Amentum was awarded a five-year, $327 million contract to engineer, integrate and test advanced prototype command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) technologies and systems for the U.S. This is a takeaway from Leidos.

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Ransomware And The Defense Industrial Base

Smart Data Collective

According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report of 2016, governments’ growing dependence on information technology makes them vulnerable to ransomware attacks. Hackers perpetrate ransomware attacks against the defense industrial base to undercut the military, technological, and economic advantages of a government.