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Accenture Federal Services wins TSA administration Blanket Purchase Agreement with $ 170m ceiling value
Accenture Federal Services – a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture – has been awarded a TSA Security Operations Flexible Agile Scalable Teams ( FAST )
Blanket Purchase Agreement – with a ceiling value of $ 170m .
To support the US Federal Government ’ s Cloud First and Mobile First initiatives , Accenture Federal Services will deliver stateof-the-art Agile design , development , testing and maintenance capabilities to help TSA SO enhance existing custom and platform-based applications , and to introduce mobile and cloud computing technologies . operate with greater efficiency and enhanced business value .”
In recent years , Accenture Federal Services has also been awarded contracts to support TSA ’ s Vetting and Credentialing Systems and the modernization of the agency ’ s Secure Flight pre-screening program .
The period of performance on FAST award is five years .
“ Our work on Flexible Agile Scalable Teams ( FAST ) marks the next step in Accenture Federal Services ’ valued , decades-long support of the Transportation Security Administration ,” said Accenture Federal Services Managing Director and TSA Lead , Anthony Pinheiro . “ As we kickoff this new chapter , we look forward to using Commercial Off-the-Shelf ( COTS ) technologies to help TSA Security Operations
TSA SO is responsible for checkpoint and baggage screening at approximately 440 airports in the US and oversight of more than 280 airports globally .
TSA SO is also responsible for ensuring all modes of transportation , including freight railroad , passenger rail , mass transit , maritime and pipelines comply with domestic and global regulatory requirements .
Sysdig extends AI workload security to AWS AI Services
Sysdig has extended AI Workload
Security to Amazon Bedrock , Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Q .
Sysdig and AWS are innovating to help customers accelerate the adoption of AI in a secure manner .
By extending AI Workload Security to AWS AI services and ingesting real-time signals from AWS CloudTrail logs , Sysdig can mitigate and enable swift response to events such as :
Public exposure : Highlight where AI applications are exposed to the internet , giving teams the visibility they need to limit the exposure of proprietary and sensitive information .
“ Everyone is racing to embed AI into their software , but doing so without the right understanding of AI risk and the proper security controls applied could be costly . Together with AWS , we ’ re enabling mutual customers to securely capitalize on the efficiency and speed that AI unlocks ,” said Loris Degioanni , CTO and Founder , Sysdig .
Sysdig streamlines triage and reduces response times by integrating real-time AI Workload Security with the company ’ s unified risk findings feature . This solution , offering security teams a consolidated view of all correlated risks and events , is pitched as facilitating a more efficient workflow for prioritizing , investigating and mitigating active AI risks .
Reconnaissance activity : Detect attempts to discover and exploit AI services , enabling security teams to outpace malicious activity . Data tampering : Identify attempts to manipulate data , delete models or knowledge bases , and disable logging to help safeguard sensitive data and ensure the integrity of AI applications .
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