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We’ll drop SBOMs on UK.gov to solve Telecoms Security Bill’s technical demands, beams Cisco • The Register

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Britain’s Telecoms Security Bill will be accompanied by a detailed code of practice containing 70 specific security requirements for telcos and their suppliers to meet, The Register can reveal.

The Telecom Security Bill (TSB), which is near the end of its journey through Parliament, has been rather unpopular with some ISPs who have previously complained about the high cost of compliance.

Introduced as part of 2019-20’s “ban Huawei immediately” panic, the bill includes provision for £100k-a-day fines.

Now El Reg can reveal more about the detailed requirements due to be imposed on the industry, thanks to Cisco publishing a detailed paper [PDF] explaining how it already complies with UK.gov and National Cyber Security Centre requirements. That paper is a response to a document called the Vendor Annex, an NCSC-authored technical bolt-on to the main bill.

“We expect that the way it will work is there will be some expectation that the operators will be obliged to do much more scrutiny when they go through their procurement exercises with telco vendors,” Cisco’s UK&I national cybersecurity advisor, Mark Jackson, told The Register.

Jackson added that many of the requirements in the bill and the Vendor Annex could be satisfied through provision of a software bill of materials (SBOM), though that specific term isn’t mentioned. SBOMs as a security management concept have come in for some criticism recently because they could create the illusion that picking (for example) one specific software library and saying “job done, it’s secure” doesn’t set the expectation that the library will need updating in future.

This kind of problem was endemic in Huawei’s mobile network equipment firmware, as NCSC’s Huawei examination cell revealed in 2019. The Chinese firm was, among other things, using “70 full copies of 4 different OpenSSL versions” which contained 10 “publicly disclosed” vulns, some “dating back to 2006”.

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Who’s hiring in Pittsburgh? Arconic, Koppers, Pittsburgh Technical College and more — 7/26/21

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IT and Engineering

Arconic is looking for a Cyber Security Project Specialist to provide support for cybersecurity initiatives, projects and ongoing activities as a member of the company’s information security team.

Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. seeks a Senior Electrical Designer to design state-of-the-art manufacturing, oil and gas, water treatment and power facilities.


Human Resources

Koppers has an opening for a Human Resources Business Partner to align business objectives with employees and management in designated business units.

Nonprofit

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust seeks a Manager of School and Community Programs to work with teachers, school districts, teaching artists and partners to implement arts integration residencies and workshops serving local school districts and community organizations.

Sweetwater Center for the Arts is hiring a Manager of Education Programs to oversee education and outreach programming, assists with program marketing and evaluation, manage budgets, supplies and equipment and more.

Facilities


Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy seeks a Mellon Square Visitor Experience Associate to perform routine, heavy custodial and labor-related tasks including cleaning and ensuring proper maintenance throughout facilities, security patrol, assisting with special events and performing seasonal duties.

Marketing and Communications

WESCO Distribution is looking for a Senior Marketing Specialist – Event Planning to oversee marketing programs, promote the company’s products and services, develop marketing content, explore sales channels and coordinate involvement in conferences, exhibitions and marketing seminars.

Higher Education

Pittsburgh Technical College seeks a Director of Counseling and Support Services to establish the college’s first Office of Counseling and Health and Wellness to support the learning and health needs of a diverse community of students.

Finance and Business

Howmet Aerospace is hiring…

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Hub, a productivity platform for technical sales professionals, launches with $1M in funding – TechCrunch

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Hub, a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1 million in seed funding.

CEO Freddy Mangum and CTO Karl Gainey founded Hub in 2020. The pair both had experience in technical sales and recognized the challenges of using spreadsheets to manage their business.

They researched and surveyed sales engineers at big and small companies alike, discovering that many of these professionals were spending a lot of time doing things like “wrangling data to report to management, forcing individual contributors to enter data into a CRM (customer relationship management) system.”

“Performing these kinds of mundane tasks was taking time away from them actually selling,” said Mangum. “We also came to the conclusion that technical sales professionals have been the unsung heroes of sales, behind the scenes driving enterprise.”

So they set about creating a better way for presales, solution architects and sales engineers to manage their day-to-day technical sales activities.

Then COVID hit, and obviously, as Mangum puts it, digital selling became much more real.

“That really accentuated the need for specific commercial tooling,” he said.

San Francisco-based Hub was born. The company describes its offering as a SaaS application that “securely interconnects and complements popular CRM systems and productivity applications.”

As a personalized productivity platform, Hub is designed to help individual contributors manage the sales process. By gaining greater visibility into every step, the goal is to better analyze and do more accurate forecasting so an organization can better “identify investment areas while taking corrective actions in real time,” Mangum said.

“Our tool can help them automate the mundane tasks and put the focus on high-value tasks to actually win more business,” he added.

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Targeting technical sales professionals is an underserved market, according to Mangum, which presents tremendous opportunity.

Investors in the company include Tom Noonan, general partner of Atlanta-based TechOperators (and former chairman and CEO of Internet Security Systems, which was acquired in 2007 by IBM for $1.3…

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