RAYTHEON|WEBSENSE IS NOW FORCEPOINT

Forcepoint brings fresh approach to safeguarding users, data and networks from insider and outsider threats 

Austin, Texas – January 14, 2016 – Global cybersecurity leader Raytheon|Websense today unveiled its new company name, Forcepoint™, and multiple new products. Built on the successful integration of Websense®, Raytheon Cyber Products and the recently-acquired Stonesoft next-generation firewall (NGFW) business, Forcepoint brings a fresh approach to address the constantly evolving cybersecurity challenges and regulatory requirements facing businesses and government agencies.

Forcepoint was created to empower organizations to drive their business forward by safely embracing transformative technologies – cloud, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), and others – through a unified, cloud-centric platform that safeguards users, networks and data while eliminating the inefficiencies involved in managing a collection of point security products. The Forcepoint platform will protect against threats from insiders and outsiders, rapidly detect breaches, minimize “dwell time” – the period between compromise and remediation – and stop theft.

“With Forcepoint, organizations can protect users, networks and data in the cloud, on the road, and in the office. We simplify compliance, enable better decision-making and streamline security so that our customers can concentrate on what’s important to them,” said Forcepoint CEO, John McCormack. “We will provide a unified cloud-centric platform to defend against attacks, detect suspicious activity sooner, and give the context needed to decide what actions to take to defeat the attack and stop data theft. Defend, detect, decide, defeat – this is our vision for Forcepoint 4D Security. We have the expertise, financial commitment and ongoing access to unique, defense-grade security technology necessary to deliver on this vision.”

“A platform solution that both simplifies and strengthens security as part of a holistic strategy that includes people, process and technology is a far more compelling value proposition than a simple point solution,” said Dan Wilson, Executive Vice President of Partner Solutions for Optiv, a market-leading provider of end-to-end cyber security solutions.

“Forcepoint’s platform focuses on insider threat protection, cloud data protection and network security. We’re seeing clients ask for these capabilities and are excited to see how Forcepoint delivers.”

 

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Power plants, utilities ‘just hanging right off the internet’s tubes’

Utilities opening their infrastructure to the internet are creating an irresistible honeypot for criminals, says the US government’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team. .

In spite of often being billion-dollar operations with long-standing experience in their industrial control networks, critical infrastructure owners seem to think they can take advantage of the public ‘net for connectivity without a care for security.

While ICS-CERT‘s Marty Edwards, speaking to the S4 conference in Miami this week, didn’t call such operators idiots, he may as well have done. According to Reuters, he came close, saying: “I am very dismayed at the accessibility of some of these networks … they are just hanging right off the tubes.”

Edwards also said the number of attacks on such networks is increasing. With such poor security – and with the number of vulnerabilities listed at ICS-CERT running along at around 100 per year in 2014 and 2015, by The Register‘s quick perusal of it advisories – a successful compromise is inevitable. For the full article click here 

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D.C.’s infrastructure gets a C-minus — and transportation ranks lowest

Despite recent investments in the District’s infrastructure, it continues to crumble — and in the worst state is the city’s transportation system.

A report card to be released Thursday by the American Society of Civil Engineers gives the city a C-minus, just above failing.

“We keep on falling behind gradually,” said Ranjit Sahai, a professional engineer with the consulting firm RAM in Northern Virginia, who chaired the report.

The District’s grade was pulled down by some of its biggest — and well-known — problems: an embattled transit system, congested roads and two levee systems in need of improvements to reduce the city’s flood risk. For the full article click here 

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Toowoomba Enterprise Hub gets millions for ‘vital’ road

THE boss of a major freight terminal says funding for a road upgrade will put Toowoomba on the map nationally as a significant transport and logistics hub.

The Queensland Government today announced $2.89 million in funding will go towards a planned upgrade to key infrastructure in the Toowoomba Enterprise Hub at Charlton.

The road upgrade, which includes an asphalt-surfaced, two-lane road, with provision to accommodate trunk public utility plant and other utility service infrastructure, will cost $6,779,700.

Freight Terminals chair John Dornbusch said his group was delighted to be partnering with the Queensland Government and Toowoomba Regional Council.

Council is matching the government’s funding and Freight Terminal is putting in $1 million for the Steger Road Infrastructure Enabling Project.

Mayor Paul Antonio said the upgrade was a turning point in the future of the transport and logistics hub. For the full article click here 

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ISACA 2016 Cybersecurity Snapshot

ISACA’s January 2016 Cybersecurity Snapshot looks at cybersecurity issues facing organizations this month and beyond—from reactions to new cybersecurity legislation, to insights on information sharing and top cyber threats.

Among the key findings from nearly 3,000 IT and cybersecurity professionals worldwide:

• The top three cyberthreat concerns for 2016 are social engineering, insider threats and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
• 84 percent of respondents believe there is a medium to high likelihood of a cybersecurity attack disrupting critical infrastructure (e.g., electrical grid, water supply systems) this year.
• 72 percent of respondents say they are in favor of the US Cybersecurity Act, but only 46% say their organizations would voluntarily participate in cyber threat information sharing, as outlined in the Act.

See the full results and related insights from cybersecurity experts here:   http://ift.tt/1mR4QPx

Follow the conversation on Twitter: #CyberSnapshot

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ICIT Brief: Hacking Healthcare in 2016: Lessons the Healthcare Industry can Learn from the OPM Breach

Among all of America’s critical infrastructures, the healthcare sector is the most targeted and plagued by perpetual persistent attacks from numerous unknown malicious hackers. The goal of these threat actors is to exploit vulnerabilities in insecure and antiquated networks in order to exfiltrate patient data for financial or geopolitical gain. In order to protect patient privacy, healthcare organizations and their supply chains must better understand the growing attack surface and the technologies and solutions which can improve their ability to respond to unauthorized network access.

In this brief, entitled “Hacking Healthcare in 2016: Lessons the Healthcare Industry can Learn from the OPM Breach”, the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology provides a comprehensive assessment of the threats and healthcare trends which have the greatest impact on health sector security, as well as solutions and strategies to improve resiliency. The report draws from the OPM breach, which is a prime example of the enormous consequences an organization can face by not maintaining and protecting integrated systems.  Specifically, this brief details:

•  The Healthcare System’s Adversaries (script kiddies, hacktivists, cyber criminals, cyberterrorists and Nation State Actors)
• A Multi-Pronged Approach to Meaningful Cybersecurity (people, policies & procedures and technical controls)
• Healthcare in a Digital Age (IoT, sensors, telehealth, remote monitoring, behavior modification devices, embedded devices, mobile applications and data sharing in the Cloud)
• Legislation & Collaboration (21st Century Cures Act, telehealth solutions for veterans, telehealth access expansion, prescription drug monitoring, EHR interoperability, mHealth IRB)

The following ICIT Fellows & thought leaders contributed to this brief:

• James Scott (ICIT Senior Fellow – Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology)
• Drew Spaniel (ICIT Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Mellon University)
• Dan Waddell (ICIT Fellow – Director, Government Affairs, (ISC)2)
• Jon Miller (ICIT Fellow – V.P Strategy, Cylance)
• Rob Bathurst (ICIT Fellow – CISSP, Professional Services Director, Cylance)
• Malcolm Harkins (ICIT Fellow – Global Chief Information Security Officer, Cylance)
• Greg Cranley (ICIT Fellow Sr. Director of Federal, Centrify)
• Seth Nylund (ICIT Fellow – V.P. Federal, Exabeam)
• Michael Seguinot (ICIT Fellow – Regional Sales Director, Exabeam)
• Steve Curren (Acting Director, Division of Resilience, HHS)
• Rob Roy (ICIT Fellow – Public Sector CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
• Stan Wisseman (ICIT Fellow – Security Strategist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
• Montana Williams (ICIT Fellow – Cybersecurity Evangelist, ISACA)
• Jerry Davis (ICIT Fellow & CIO, NASA Ames Research Center)
• Kevin Stine (Manager, Information Technology Laboratory (Security Outreach and Integration, NIST)
•  Elisabeth George (ICIT Fellow – V.P. Global Regulations & Standards, Philips)
• John Menkhart (ICIT Fellow – V.P Federal, Securonix)
• Stacey Winn (ICIT Fellow – Sr. Product Manager, Raytheon / Websense)
• Ashok Sankar (ICIT Fellow – Security Evangelist, Raytheon / Websense)

Download the brief HERE

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Gwinnett projects getting some of state’s Transportation Funding Act money

Gov. Nathan Deal announced on Tuesday that Georgia will spend $2.2 billion on transportation improvements over the next 18 months, including about $30.1 million in Gwinnett County, as officials begin rolling out the state’s new infrastructure plan.

The projects included in the plan will be the among the first paid for through the state’s new transportation funding formula that was signed into law last year. The projects range from intersection improvements, to roadway, resurfacing and maintenance, and bike and pedestrian projects.

The state has also launched a new website, www.GAroads.org, that will give residents the ability to track the progress and spending on individual projects across the state.

“Over the next 18 months, nearly 60 percent of the projects contracted will be for maintenance of our roads and bridges,” Deal said in a statement. “We are also upholding our promise of transparency through the GA Roads website, which provides clarity through features unprecedented in state history. For the full article click here 

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