Posts from GovCon Daily for 09/29/2015

Deltek’s Alex Rossino: IBM Led FY 2011-2015 Federal Cloud Contract Awards

Established vendors continue to dominate the federal market for cloud platforms amid competition with commercial newcomers, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, cited IBM as the leading federal cloud vendor based on the value of awarded contracts from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2015…

Casey Coleman: IT Procurement Process Needs Industry-Gov’t Dialogue

Casey Coleman, vice president of Unisys‘ federal civilian business group, government and industry need more communication in order to help fulfill information technology procurements. Coleman wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that some companies may not understand the government’s desired outcome in the absence of a dialogue…

Former Raytheon CEO William Swanson Joins Resilient Systems Board; John Bruce Comments

William Swanson, former CEO and chairman of Raytheon, has joined the board of directors at cybersecurity company Resilient Systems. Resilient Systems CEO and Co-Founder John Bruce said Monday the company wants to apply what he called “expertise and counsel” from Swanson…

Grant Thornton: Cyber Attacks Cost Businesses $315M Over Past Year

A new Grant Thornton report estimates the total cost of cyber attacks to businesses worldwide in the past 12 months has reached $315 billion. One in six businesses have experienced cyber attacks during that period with companies in Europe and North America as among the top targets, Grant Thornton said Sept…

IBM’s Andras Szakal, Dan Chenok Overview FedRAMP’s Mobile Offerings

The General Services Administration has included cloud-based mobile applications as part of the offerings under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program in efforts to further boost government services, according to two IBM executives…