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Deutsche Welle uses TeamViewer to provide secure IT support

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The Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, has announced using TeamViewer to support its information technology (IT) for its global network of correspondents.

With TeamViewer’s Enterprise Connectivity Suite Tensor deployed, Deutsche Welle’s IT team, located in Bonn and Berlin, can securely connect remotely to the laptops and smartphones of their employees. They operate in around 140 countries worldwide; when support requests are made, the IT team can resolve problems quickly and easily.

When opting for TeamViewer, the extensive security features of the Tensor solution played a vital role in Deutsche Welle’s decision. These include single sign-on, scalable and flexible rights management via conditional access, and end-to-end encryption. In addition, the solution can be seamlessly embedded into Deutsche Welle’s existing IT landscape with integrations into services such as Microsoft Intune and Teams.

“Laptops and smartphones are important work tools for our journalists that have to function reliably, especially in breaking news situations. However, should any problems occur, our IT team can now react quickly using TeamViewer Tensor and thus contribute to smooth reporting. Since our correspondents often process sensitive information, the stable and secure connection via TeamViewer is also particularly important to us,” says Thomas Rieger, IT requirements management and coordination, Deutsche Welle.

“We have tailored TeamViewer Tensor specifically to the requirements of large companies. The solution can be scaled as required and makes it possible to access devices of all kinds quickly, easily, and securely from anywhere and at any time to access them and provide assistance. In particular, globally positioned companies and organisations such as Deutsche Welle are using it to make their IT support significantly faster and more efficient,” adds Jan Junker, executive vice president of solution sales and delivery at TeamViewer.

TeamViewer is a technology company that provides a connectivity platform to remotely access, control, manage, monitor, and repair devices, from laptops and mobile phones to industrial machines and robots.

Although TeamViewer is free of…

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Palo Alto Networks teams with Google Cloud to provide secure access to applications

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Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced a new partnership with Google LLC Cloud that combines BeyondCorp Enterprise from Google Cloud and Prisma Access from Palo Alto Networks to provide hybrid users with secure access to applications.

Built on the backbone of the Google Cloud network, the cloud-delivered Zero Trust Network Access 2.0 solution is said to enable users to work securely from anywhere, regardless of device type. Tapping into Prisma Access, customers gain access to ZTNA 2.0 security for all devices, branch offices and applications. With the inclusion of BeyondCorp Enterprise Essentials, users can secure access to applications and resources for unmanaged devices.

The pairing combines threat intelligence and machine learning that automatically detects and remediates threats to users, applications and enterprise data, powered by low-latency connections on Google Cloud. “Legacy VPN and ZTNA 1.0 solutions provide access to users that are too broad and lack continuous security inspection, putting cloud-first and hybrid organizations at risk,” explained Kumar Ramchandran, senior vice president of products at Palo Alto Networks.

Also announced today by Palo Alto Networks at its annual Ignite Conference in Las Vegas was Prisma Cloud Secrets Security. A cloud-native application protection platform, the solution taps into signature-based secrets detection, observing events and identifying patterns that match the signatures of known attacks, and an entropy model that measures the amount of uncertainty an attacker faces to determine the value of a secret.

Prisma Cloud now scans all files, including “infrastructure as code” and source files, to deliver a solution that offers full application lifecycle protection. The service does so by scanning for hardcoded in-code pre-commit, version control systems and continuous integration pipelines.

The service additionally alerts users to exposed secrets in cloud works and resources using built-in runtime policies. Key features include application programming interface risk profile for cloud-native applications that rely on APIs for communication.

Prisma Cloud now has enhanced web application and API security capability with…

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Copper River Cyber Solutions Wins DCSA Contract to Provide Background Investigation Support Services

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACTS VALUED AT $7 MILLION AND ABOVE

DEFENSE INFORMATIONS SYSTEMS AGENCY

American Systems Corp., Chantilly, Virginia, was awarded a competitive single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for test, evaluation, and certification services. The face value of this action has a contract ceiling of $1,010,000,000. The minimum guarantee of $10,000 will be satisfied through the issuance of the first task order, which will be funded by fiscal 2023 research, development, test, and evaluation appropriations. The ordering period for the base period is Dec. 2, 2022, to Dec. 1, 2026, with one five-year option period and one one-year option period through Dec. 1, 2032. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, is the contracting activity (HC102823D0001).

NAVY

Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., Monroeville, Pennsylvania, is awarded a $768,485,104 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-19-C-2114 for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Monroeville, Pennsylvania (70%); and Schenectady, New York (30%). Fiscal 2023 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $768,485,104 (100%) will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Crowley Government Services Inc., Jacksonville, Florida (N3220523C2506), is awarded a $45,850,402 firm-fixed-price contract for the operation and maintenance of six government-owned Transportation Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance (T-AGOS) and Transportation Auxiliary General Missile Range instrument (T-AGM) vessels. The vessels under this award include U.S. Naval Ship (USNS) Victorious (T-AGOS 19); USNS Able (T-AGOS 20); USNS Effective (T-AGOS 21); USNS Loyal (T-AGOS 22); USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS 23); and USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM 25). Work will be performed worldwide, with an expected completion date of May 30, 2024. The maximum dollar…

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US to provide Ukraine with four more mobile artillery rocket systems in new $400 million Ukraine security assistance package

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The latest package is valued at $400 million and is drawing from Presidential Drawdown Authority funding only, meaning the US is sending weapons directly from US stockpiles of weapons.

The $400 million package includes four additional rocket systems, additional ammunition for those systems, three tactical vehicles to “recover equipment, support Ukrainian efforts to repair, resupply as the battle continues,” 1,000 rounds of 155 mm artillery ammunition, demolition munitions, counter battery systems, and spare parts and other equipment, the official said.

The 1,000 rounds of 155 mm artillery ammunition that the US is providing to Ukraine in this package is a “new type” of ammunition that the US has not provided to Ukraine previously, the official added.

“It has greater precision, it offers Ukraine precise targeting, precise capability for specific targets, it will save ammunition, it will be more effective due to the precision, so it’s a further evolution in our support for Ukraine in this battle for the Donbas,” the official said.

The US has provided Ukraine with 12 high mobility artillery rocket systems total with the commitment of these additional four systems, the official said. A senior military official said “upwards of 100” Ukrainians have been trained on the systems so far.

Reports that Russians have destroyed two high mobility artillery rocket systems systems are false, the official added.

“The ones that have already been provided are fully accounted for, Ukrainians are still using them in the fight,” the official said.

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