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Crisis24 acquires Topo.ai to enhance global risk intelligence capabilities

Crisis24 acquires Topo.ai to further strengthen its support operations, offer a one-stop shop solution with plug and play capabilities, and ensure the highest levels of client satisfaction. Crisis24 provides unrivaled curated intelligence and sophisticated technologies to enable the world’s most prominent brands and organizations to operate with confidence. By uniquely leveraging man and machine, the team delivers a spectrum of products and capabilities aimed at keeping people safe and operations resilient. “Topo.ai and Crisis24 have … More → The post Crisis24 acquires Topo.ai to enhance global risk intelligence capabilities appeared first on Help Net Security.
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SpiderOak raises $16.4 million to protect space mission systems

SpiderOak has raised $16.4M in Series C round led by Empyrean Technology Solutions, a space technology platform backed by funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners. The Series C round included additional investment from Method Capital, and OCA Ventures. The oversubscribed round further validates the immediate need for end-to-end cybersecurity solutions to protect space mission systems. “Today, space-based assets are mission essential in all civil and military operations and rapidly becoming mission critical for all national … More → The post SpiderOak raises $16.4 million to protect space mission systems appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Compliance & federal procurement

Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf to discuss how federal procurement is being impacted by a cavalcade of current and proposed contract compliance requirements.
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SailPoint acquires SecZetta to help companies validate non-employee identities

With nearly half of today’s enterprises comprised of non-employees, organizations need to factor this growing group of identities into their approach to identity security. With SecZetta, SailPoint will be able to expand its capabilities to help companies gain better visibility into all types of identities, across both employee and non-employee identities – from third-party contractors to temporary workers – all from a single, market-leading identity security platform. This acquisition will give enterprises the centralized approach … More → The post SailPoint acquires SecZetta to help companies validate non-employee identities appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Top federal use cases for the Metaverse continuum

The past year has seen countless headlines about how tech and retail behemoths are making enormous investments in the metaverse.
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Computers that power self-driving cars could be a huge driver of global carbon emissions

A new model quantifies emissions that will be generated by computers on fully autonomous vehicles. If self-driving cars are widely adopted, their emissions will rival those generated by all the data centers in the world today. Keeping emissions at or below those levels would require hardware efficiency to improve more rapidly than its current pace.
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Novel design helps develop powerful microbatteries

Translating electrochemical performance of large format batteries to microscale power sources has been a long-standing technological challenge, limiting the ability of batteries to power microdevices, microrobots and implantable medical devices. Researchers have created a high-voltage microbattery (> 9 V), with high-energy and -power density, unparalleled by any existing battery design.
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Royal ransomware group actively exploiting Citrix vulnerability

The Royal ransomware group is believed to be actively exploiting a critical security flaw affecting Citrix systems, according to the cyber research team at cyber insurance provider At-Bay. Announced by Citrix on November 8, 2022, the vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-27510, allows for the potential bypass of authentication measures on two Citrix products: the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway. To read this article in full, please click here
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Microsoft Releasing New Microsoft 365 Basic Product and Apps This Month

Microsoft this week announced Microsoft 365 product news, including a new consumer Basic product offering.
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The GSA administrator on the agency’s plans for the President’s management agenda in 2023

The General Services Administration has been busy since passage of the American Rescue Plan two years ago and, most recently, the Inflation Reduction Act. GSA is applying funds to fulfill several parts of the President’s Management Agenda.
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