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Google Cloud’s $5.4B Mandiant deal accelerates cybersecurity race with Microsoft and Amazon

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. “The cloud security space is highly competitive, and this deal really only even further enhances that competition,” said Phil Venables, Google’s chief information security officer, addressing a reporter’s question about potential regulatory hurdles to closing the deal during a virtual press conference Tuesday morning.

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

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Gary Galloway , Deputy Director, Office of Information Assurance, Dept. Moderator: Mark Ryland , Chief Solutions Architect, World Wide Public Sector Team, Amazon Web Services. Chuck McGann , Corporate Information Security Officer, USPS. Session D-1: Managing the Threat Lifecycle. – 3:40 p.m.

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Macquarie Government: Providing Australia’s Federal Agencies with the Cloud and Security Solutions They Need to Safeguard the Most Sensitive Data

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Another benefit of being based on VMware technology is that it is far easier for agencies to migrate, deploy or extend workloads into the cloud, or alternatively to move data back-and-forth with consistent information security controls already applied. Data sovereignty is crucially important for regulatory and data security purposes.”

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

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George “Skip” Battle , the former CEO of AskJeeves, has resigned from Expedia Group’s board of directors. AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Madrona Venture Group Photo). Skip Battle. Global Ventures Photo).

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. “Basic secure usage of Microsoft’s products, which currently helps fuel a worldwide criminal network in ransomware gangs, shouldn’t have a security poverty line.

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

GeekWire

Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. F5 Networks hired Microsoft CVP Yvette Smith as SVP of customer success and business transformation and promoted Gail Coury to SVP and chief information security officer.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: GSA Awards Eleven US.

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According to Federal News Radio , GSA awarded eleven vendor spots in the first Federal cloud infrastructure-as-a-service award. partnered with Amazon Web Services. * Computer Literacy World partnered with Electrosoft, XO Communications and Secure Networks. General Dynamics Information Technology partnered with Carpathia.

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