Corsec Security Certification Blog

FED Roundup: April 2020

7th February 20224th May 2020

DISA News DISA provides connectivity to DoD COVID Response Unit NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper on "Methodology for Characterizing Network Behavior of Internet of Things Devices" Draft ...

COVID-19: Corsec Continues to Operate

7th February 202227th April 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe, Corsec staff have transitioned to a telework policy to ensure the health and wellbeing of our staff, their family, and the community. We feel fortunate to ...

Limiting the Use of FIPS 186-2

20th November 202522nd April 2020

New guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding the use of Digital Signatures (FIPS 186-2) will be impacting a number of FIPS 140-2 validations in the near future. This guidance will ...

FED Roundup: March 2020

20th November 202531st March 2020

DISA News Temporary Changes to milDrive DISA Dir Norton Interviews during Women's History Month DISA Protects Teleworks with renewed Anti-Virus licenses NIST News Announcements: NIST ITL Bulletin on Teleworking Releases & Special Publications: Revision 1 ...

NIST Guidance: Teleworking Security

7th February 202220th March 2020

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new IT Laboratory Bulletin on Telework Security. The bulletin draws from the original 2016 NIST Special Publication 800-46 Revision 2, Guide to Enterprise Telework, ...

FED Roundup: February 2020

20th November 20254th March 2020

DISA News DISA Drumbeat DISA hosts members of academia to expand its #NEXTGEN outreach to enhance cybersecurity moving forward NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: NISTIR 8287: "A Roadmap for Successful Regional Alliances ...

Teradici Achieves IUT Listing

7th February 202221st February 2020

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Teradici Corporation, for achieving the Implementation Under Test (IUT) phase of the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process for their PCoIP Zero Client product. To ...

PIVOT3 COMPLETES COMMON CRITERIA RECERTIFICATION

7th February 20224th February 2020

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner Pivot3 on completing the Assurance Continuity process of Common Criteria for their Acuity hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software platform. To read more about the product and Pivot3's achievement, visit ...

FED Roundup: January 2020

7th February 20224th February 2020

DISA News DISA works to improve JRSS capabilities NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: Draft NISTIR 8278, "National Cybersecurity Online References (OLIR) Program: Guidance for OLIR Users and Developers." Draft NIST Special Publication ...

FED Roundup: December 2019

7th February 20221st January 2020

DISA News DISA celebrates 244th Marine Corps birthday NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: Special Publication (SP) 800-189, "Resilient Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Security and DDoS Mitigation," Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-208, "Recommendation ...

2019 FIPS Implementation Guidance Updates

20th November 202518th December 2019

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency that governs FIPS 140-2 validations in the United States, periodically releases updates and revisions to the Implementation Guidance (IG) used to evaluate products against FIPS ...

FED Roundup: November 2019

20th November 20252nd December 2019

DISA News The Fourth Estate Network Optimization Execution Guidance memorandum was signed, designating DISA as the single service provider of common use information technology services DISA held its annual Forecast to Industry on Nov 4, ...

Ribbon Completes FIPS 140-2 Validation of Sonus SBC

13th July 202013th November 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Ribbon Communications, for completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation on their Sonus SBC 5400 Session Border Controller R6.2.2. To achieve this milestone, Ribbon partnered ...

CyberArk Common Criteria Certification Complete

4th November 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, CyberArk Software Ltd., on completing the Common Criteria certification process for their Privileged Access Security Solution (PAS). PAS helps government organizations prevent the theft, abuse, and misuse of ...

FED Roundup: October 2019

20th November 20254th November 2019

DISA News The U.S. Air Force selects Core Automated Maintenance System for Mobility to be singular Maintenance Information System NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: Draft FIPS 186-5 and Draft NIST Special Publication ...

Algorithm Testing & Automation: The Change from CAVS to ACVTS

7th February 202225th October 2019

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) and the Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) will soon be transitioning to an automated process for algorithm testing. ...

FED ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER 2019

20th November 20254th October 2019

DISA News DISA moderated a panel during TechNet Augusta 2019 that discussed classified mobile capabilities, assured identity, and secure access to data NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: NISTIR 8183A (3 volumes), Cybersecurity ...

Dell’s VxRail Finishes Common Criteria Certification

10th September 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Dell Technologies, Inc. on completing the Common Criteria certification process for the latest version of their Dell EMC VxRail Appliance 4.5 product. VxRail is a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance ...

FED ROUNDUP: AUGUST 2019

20th November 20253rd September 2019

DISA News DISA improves Cloud Authorization process DISA Deployed the DOD Secure Access File Exchange (DOD SAFE) NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: SP 800-52 Revision 2, "Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and ...

FED ROUNDUP: JULY 2019

20th November 202531st July 2019

DISA News DISA Awards SETI IDIQ to 23 Small Businesses DISA Releases 4 Year Strategic Plan NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: SP 1800-17, Multifactor Authentication for E-Commerce: Risk-Based, FIDO Universal Second Factor ...