Rodney Joffe, Neustar Inc.’s senior vice president and senior technologist, recently spoke to Federal News Radio about July’s Mariposa botnet arrests. According to the FBI, the Mariposa botnet stole passwords for websites and financial institutions, online users’ credit card and bank account information, launched denial-of-service attacks, and spread viruses in more than 12 million computers. [...]
In an interview with TheNewNewInternet, L-3′s Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Intelligence Systems Business Unit Alex Miller spoke about what he perceives to be the most significant cyber threat: “I think there are many cyber threats out there: nation-state, terrorists, illegal activities, to name a few. But I’d say the greatest threat [...]
Tom Anderson, group president of the Wyle’s Information Systems Group, spoke to ExecutiveBiz about how the cyber landscape presents a multidimensional challenge for the federal government, and what his company is offering to protect government information and computer networks: “Wyle provides a robust set of capabilities in information assurance and computer network defense to both [...]
Recruiting and retaining top talent has always been a human resources departments’ biggest goal and challenge. So what is the secret to attracting and sustaining employees? Thinking outside the box, of course. Alion Science and Technology launched Alion University, which provides employees with distance-learning education on a wide array of topics, including finance, engineering, management [...]
Shaara Roman, head of CGI Federal’s human resources department, shared with Executivebiz how social media have revolutionized recruiting: “At CGI, we will continue to leverage Web2.0 technologies by using appropriate social media approaches that could range from Twitter and Facebook pages to YouTube channels – and we’re going to continue to use aggregator sites like [...]
Bill Varner sees cybersecurity as an increasingly significant threat to the nation. As president of ManTech’s Mission, Cyber and Technology Solutions Group, Varner is constantly updating the company’s cyber capabilities and solutions to combat this growing threat and differentiate itself in the market. During an interview with ExecutiveBiz, Varner explained his opinions on where the [...]
Gartner Inc. has placed Verizon Business in the Leaders quadrant of the firm’s new report, “Magic Quadrant for Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services, North America.” For the report, Gartner examined 17 U.S.-based providers of IT services for business communications systems. Within the report, leaders are firms that “affect competitors by the choices they make in [...]
Roger Anderson, vice president of network intelligence at Applied Signal technology, recently shared with TheNewNewInternet some of the products and services his company offers to help address federal cybersecurity challenges: “Most of our current technology has been developed to address IC missions; however, the same technology is directly applicable to DoD, DHS and DISA needs. We [...]
Kevin Shelly, who heads sales for ACS, A Xerox Company, spoke to ExecutiveBiz about what his company is doing to help state and local governments: “If you look at our solutions, they fit very well in difficult times because they’re focused on increasing efficiency in their business process. If you drive out the inefficiencies you [...]
Douglas Charles, vice president of market development and sales officer for the Technology Services (TS) division in North America at Capgemini, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding his goals for the future: “I’ll focus on the federal opportunities. What’s interesting with our federal business is for a number of years as we entered into it, we [...]
