Cyware has partnered with VMware Carbon Black to integrate automated threat detection and remediation to mutual customers, Cyware reported on Tuesday.

"This integration brings complex endpoint queries and response tasks from the Carbon Black Cloud to Cyware's automated playbooks," said Tom Barsi, VP of Alliances for VMware Carbon Black. "Through this integration, we believe our mutual customers can significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy of their existing SOC workflows."

The partnership will enable customers to customize security playbooks in the Cyware Security Orchestration Layer (CSOL) platform. Cyware’s offering will leverage components of the Carbon Black Cloud to detect and remediate threats at the endpoint.

CSOL is a universal Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) Platform that will execute and automate on-demand or event-triggered tasks across deployed security tools and environments. The offering will provide security teams with customized automation playbooks to complete manual tasks.

The platform will also enable machine-to-machine, human-to-machine and machine-to-human security orchestration through integrations with a wide range of deployed security tools and technologies.

"Cyware's automated playbooks are a major value-add to the market and this recent integration with VMware Carbon Black is the latest example of our company's continuous pursuit of security-focused innovation for our customers," said Amit Patel, VP of Sales Americas, at Cyware. 

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SAP National Security Services (NS2), a subsidiary of SAP, has rebranded its FedRAMP Marketplace to SAP NS2 Cloud Intelligent Enterprise, which will include a JAB approved service, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), the company reported on Tuesday. 

"With SAC's machine learning technology and embedded artificial intelligence, customers can discover, analyze, plan, and predict in one experience across all devices. Government agencies need a simple way to access critical information to make informed decisions," said Harish Luthra, president of NS2 Cloud.

FedRAMP will enable SAP NS2 to save time and costs by enabling rapid procurement of information systems and services for consistent application of information security standards across all government organizations.

SAP NS2 Cloud Intelligent Enterprise will provide a suite of intelligent applications and experience management tools for managing operational transactions, HR and people management, analytics and other innovative capabilities. 

The applications will include embedded intelligence and offer a consistent user interface. SAP NS2’s solution will offer SuccessFactors, Employee Central Payroll and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). 

SuccessFactors is an enterprise HR and People management Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that delivers business results by driving business alignment, optimizing people performance and building a competitive advantage through people.

Employee Central Payroll is a secure, industry-based payroll engine that is integrated to the core HR system. SAP NS2 will provide customers with enhanced availability, compliance and customer support to deliver a mission critical edge.

The SAC is a business intelligence platform SaaS solution that will connect people and information to enable fast end-to-end decision making.

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The Military Health System is working to develop medical products and discover new prevention techniques, tracing methods and other approaches in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Federal News Network reported Monday.

Air Force Col. Todd Rasmussen, associate dean for research at the Uniformed Services University, said the MHS has found new uses for a registry designed to help with combat wounds, known as the Joint Trauma System.

“Almost immediately in 2020, when the MHS needed a go-to organization to begin to gather data on, of all things, not combat injuries, but of COVID positive patients,” Rasmussen said. “We went to the JPS because they had a registry that allowed us to, to look at and gather real world data sort of near real time data on these cases. They have a global network of performance improvement and care Improvement where we discuss care and how to best diagnose and treat patients with COVID.”

Another innovation the military put to use during the pandemic is the Food and Drug Administration-approved COVID-19 Airway Management Isolation Chamber or CAMIC, a personal protective equipment designed to reduce airborne particles using a negative pressure vacuum.

“In mid-March, after some brainstorming, we came up with a simple device, the CAMIC, which was a low cost, $15, and easy to build with materials very ubiquitous to every healthcare system and community,” said Dr. Steven Hong, assistant professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University.

Several lawmakers have called on House leaders to allocate an additional $1 billion for the Technology Modernization Fund as the lower chamber prepares to work on the next COVID-19 relief package with the Senate.

“Throughout this global health crisis, millions of Americans facing illness, unemployment, food insecurity, and an inability to pay their mortgages or rent have looked to the federal government for help.

Yet despite urgent Congressional action to provide unprecedented levels of economic assistance, those in need have had their misery exacerbated by a broken IT infrastructure that has prevented them from receiving timely support,” a group of House lawmakers wrote in the July 24 letter.

They urged the House leadership to include in the upcoming relief measure the funding for TMF to help federal agencies modernize their IT systems to better respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and address the economic needs of American families.

The letter was signed by 11 lawmakers led by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), chairman of the House Oversight’s government operations subcommittee.

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has developed software designed to help assess the capacity of autonomous platforms and robotic technologies to maneuver subterranean environments.

ARL said Tuesday the SubT-Tunnel dataset uses simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) elements to inform the development of unmanned systems that will be used to navigate natural and man-made underground environments.

The software suite virtually places the autonomous system into a simulated environment such as a Pittsburgh research mine to test various approaches to locating assets and survivors.

ARL noted that it used SubT-Tunnel to test the OmniMapper software and Google’s Cartographer offering as well as other approaches beyond GPS and LiDAR capabilities.

According to the lab, SubT-Tunnel was based on objectives for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Circuit.

ARL published details on the effort in a research paper as part of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has enetered into an agreement with the University of California (UC) San Diego to further research and development efforts on unmanned systems to support maritime applications.

UC San Diego said Wednesday its Scripps Institution of Oceanography will work with the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) to conduct a 10-year effort to improve the capacity of unmanned systems to collect ocean observation data.

Ongoing efforts under the partnership include the development and testing of an unmanned surface vessel to obtain oceanographic and meteorological data to support entities like the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations initiative.

The team is also working to establish a framework for meeting the staffing, training and operational needs of a new unmanned maritime systems unit within OMAO.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Timothy Gallaudet, the deputy administrator of NOAA, said the agency intends to combine its fleet and aircraft resources with Scripps’ R&D expertise to drive “innovative use of unmanned systems” such as data collection in remote or extreme environments.

According to UC San Diego, the agreement comes as part of NOAA’s efforts to achieve goals under the 2018 Commercial Engagement Through Ocean Technology Act.

NOAA and Scripps are also collaborating with the University of Southern Mississippi to support a new unmanned systems facility in Gulfport, Miss.