FIPS 140, CSfC, Common Criteria, UC APL

NIST’s Draft PUB on Entropy and RNG

Last month NIST released a draft publication on sources of Entropy and randomness in protecting sensitive data. The draft “Special Publication 800-90B, Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation”, is intended to help product vendors …

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RSA-2016

Corsec at RSA 2016

RSA is on the horizon and everyone is getting excited.  Each year product vendors convene to discuss security and how we will protect our digital world.  But, with so much going on, it becomes difficult …

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Medical Devices & Security Guidelines

As cyber security risks continue to grow, a number of industries are starting to take steps to ensure secured protection of products. Health Care has always been an area of concern given the sensitive nature of …

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CC-Certification-Common-Criteria-Certification

NSA Reorganization

In December of 2015, we heard about the NSA’s proposed reorganization (its biggest in 20 years) and a few of the potential impacts it could have on the agency and industry as a whole.  One critical …

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Whitehouse

Obama Signs Executive Orders

President Obama created two new executive orders on Tuesday: The first, a Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, dedicated to “enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections at all levels of Government, business, and society, to protect privacy, to ensure public safety …

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AFCEA-West

Corsec Attending AFCEA WEST

Corsec will be in San Diego, CA for the annual AFCEA WEST conference.  “The premier naval conference and exposition on the West Coast, WEST is now in its 26th year of bringing military and industry …

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Crypt-Library

High Severity OpenSSL Vulnerability

On January 28th, 2016, OpenSSL released a patch to update a high risk vulnerability.  It was discovered and reported that prime “files may not be “safe”.  Where an application is using DH configured with parameters …

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CMVP

CMVP Has Begun Archiving!

As previously mentioned, CMVP announced that all FIPS 140-2 validations that use Random Number Generators (RNG), as well as certifications that use both the NIST 800-90A DRBG and RNG will be required to re-validate, otherwise, they will …

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Personal-Data-Protection

Happy Data Privacy Day

On January 28th; the U.S., Canada, and 47 European countries take time to acknowledge the importance of privacy and data protection best practices. Although this day has its roots in protecting personal data, specifically with …

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Whitehouse

White House Updates

When the Whitehouse issued its new action plan to prevent security breaches and attacks similar to that of the OPM fiasco, part of the plan was to acknowledge a number of cybersecurity gaps; some of which will ultimately impact …

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OpenSSL-FIPS-Compliance

FIPS Compliance and OpenSSL

Product vendors often rely on OpenSSL to meet FIPS requirements. With the new CMVP requirements and regulations, vendors using certain versions of the OpenSSL cryptographic library to meet FIPS 140-2 requirements are in jeopardy of being out of …

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