Brad Graves

SAN DIEGO – Resources abound for individuals and organizations working to improve their cybersecurity posture. As Cybersecurity Awareness Month wraps up, S

SAN DIEGO – Jack in the Box (Nasdaq: JACK) has agreed to sell its Del Taco business to Yadav Enterprises, a San Francisco Bay-area company that operates sever

SAN DIEGO – The 2025-2026 academic year has new leaders in place at two of the region’s law schools. Miriam Baer is settling in as dean and president of California Western School of Law, following a move from the East Coast. She succeeds Sean M. Scott, who took the title of dean emerita and remains […]

SAN DIEGO – Cybereason, a locally based cybersecurity company that provides extended detection and response (XDR) solutions as well as consulting, is going under the wing of Dallas-based LevelBlue. LevelBlue — a business formerly known as AT&T Cybersecurity — signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Cybereason, the companies announced on Tuesday (Oct. 14). […]

SAN DIEGO – Brendan Daly talks about the need for a “human firewall” when it comes to securing the region’s critical infrastructure. Granted, he has all sorts of technology to keep intruders away from the data and assorted IT systems of his employer, the City of San Diego. At certain points, however, human beings become […]

SAN DIEGO – Seemingly small actions can make a big difference in keeping cyber predators at bay. Taking care of details and individual initiative are two things that the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages as the fourth quarter begins. “Building a Cyber Strong America” is CISA’s theme for October, which is Cybersecurity […]

Karen Sedgwick has been named San Diego Business Journal’s CFO of the Year in the Large Public Company category for 2025. Sedgwick is executive vice president

SAN DIEGO – The U.S Navy awarded BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair a $64.1 million contract for maintenance, modernization and repair of the USS O’Kane, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. The deal covers fiscal 2026 docking selected restricted availability. The scope of the acquisition includes all labor, supervision, equipment, production, testing, facilities and […]

SAN DIEGO – Shield AI has announced that it is working to put its Hivemind autonomy software on an unmanned helicopter that Airbus U.S. Space & Defense wants to build for the U.S. Marine Corps. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Under the deal announced earlier this spring, Airbus plans to integrate Shield […]

POWAY – EpiSci, a North County business that makes software for autonomous military aircraft and networked communications, has been acquired by Applied Intuition of Silicon Valley. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Applied Intuition, based in Mountain View, specializes in software for commercial and military vehicles. The move is a departure from the […]

SAN DIEGO – Cybersecurity specialist GoSecure has landed a place in an effort to manufacture microchips on U.S. soil. The San Diego business announced on Dec. 2 that it is part of a team that entered a strategic partnership with the SMART USA Institute. SMART USA is short for Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research with […]

SAN DIEGO – Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark. Multiply the number of countries by four. In all, GoFundMe supports fundraising efforts in 20 countries. Following a pause in international expansion, GoFundMe has gone beyond European and Commonwealth country markets this year to reach into new territory: Latin America. The business announced earlier this year that […]

SAN DIEGO – Cybersecurity specialist ESET formally opened a new North American headquarters in downtown San Diego on Oct. 23. The tech business, which previously had an office in Little Italy, was still settling into its 24,000 square feet at 655 W. Broadway, a short walk from the Broadway Pier. Company leaders, including CEO Richard […]

SAN DIEGO COUNTY – A business benefits greatly from patching software vulnerabilities, those chinks in the company armor that bad actors are happy to exploit. Patching is a habit that can help all organizations – not just businesses. IBM, which tracks the cost of specific types of data breaches, noted that the cost of a […]

SAN DIEGO – In an effort to strengthen supply chains for key industrial ingredients, the Pentagon made a dozen awards to businesses as part of its Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program (also called DBIMP). The awards were announced on Sept. 13. Three of the businesses are in San Diego. Algenesis received $1.5 million to plan a […]

POWAY – A pioneer maker of remotely piloted aircraft is adding a new international customer: Japan. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. announced earlier this month (Aug. 15) that it will sell the Japanese government two MQ-9B SeaGuardian systems. The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) will take delivery in 2025. Financial terms of the deal were not […]

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