{"id":202739,"date":"2024-12-29T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T01:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/texas-awards-170-million-contract-for-cybersecurity-assistance"},"modified":"2024-12-29T19:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T01:06:03","slug":"texas-awards-170-million-contract-for-cybersecurity-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/texas-awards-170-million-contract-for-cybersecurity-assistance","title":{"rendered":"Texas awards $170 million contract for cybersecurity assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/texas-awards-170-million-contract-for-cybersecurity-assistance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of a year when Texas employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/article\/russian-hackers-texas-cybersecurity-microsoft-19547140.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">were among those targeted by hackers<\/a>, the state has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to a company that works with entities to increase technological efficiency and offer cybersecurity protection. Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.saic.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/saic-awarded-new-1709-million-contract-state-texas-managed-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">announced Dec. 18<\/a> that it was awarded a $170.9 million contract from the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to provide cybersecurity services in protection of state networks.<\/p>\n<p>SAIC, which is headquartered in Reston, Va., and has been providing security services to California, Colorado and Virginia for years, also has worked with the Air Force in deploying \u201ca cloud-based command and control capability\u201d to air defense sectors with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/texas-awards-170m-contract-to-saic-for-it-cybersecurity-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">according to information technology news website StateScoop<\/a>. It employs about 24,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a year when Texas employees were among those targeted by hackers, the state has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to a company that works with entities to increase technological efficiency and offer cybersecurity protection. Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced Dec. 18 that it was awarded a $170.9 million contract from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}