Corsec Security Certification Blog

Fed Roundup: August 2022

1st September 2022

DISA News Announcements: Data Strategy Implementation Plan released DISA appoints Tinisha McMillan to the Senior Executive Service DISA Open Letter to Contractors regarding GFE STIG Updates: AvePoint DocAve 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide Palo Alto ...

Ascom Completes FIPS 140 Validation of Smartphone BoringCrypto Module

9th August 2022

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Ascom, on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process on their Smartphone BoringCrypto Module. To achieve this milestone, Ascom partnered with Corsec, completing ...

Fed Roundup: July 2022

20th November 20252nd August 2022

DISA News Announcements: The DISA Fourth Estate Network Optimization program office began migrating the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency from its legacy information technology network to the newly modernized IT network, DODNet Marine Corps Col. Jared C. ...

Fed Roundup: June 2022

20th November 202529th June 2022

DISA News Announcements: Air Force Chief Master Sgt. David P. Klink retires New computer equipment and upgrades coming fo the Fourth Estate Network Optimization Program Office STIG Updates: Pre-release version of the STIG Applicability Guide ...

Nexthink Completes FIPS Crypto Library Validation

28th June 2022

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Nexthink, Inc., on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process on their Nexthink Cryptographic Library. To achieve this milestone, Nexthink partnered with Corsec, ...

Hitachi Vantara Validates Cryptographic Library

2nd June 2022

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Hitachi Vantara, LLC, on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process on their Hitachi Vantara Cryptographic Library. To achieve this milestone, Hitachi Vantara ...

Fed Roundup: May 2022

20th November 20251st June 2022

DISA News Announcements: The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) has begun construction on a new testing and evaluation facility A new U.S.-U.K. Defence Communications Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed STIG Updates: Revised Microsoft ...

Fed Roundup: April 2022

3rd May 2022

DISA News Announcements: Assistant to the director, Maj. Gen. Garrett Yee, retires after 35 years New principal civilian deputy of the HaCC DISA modernizing to utilize Next Generation 9-1-1 system DISA has sunset the Defense ...

Fed Roundup: March 2022

20th November 202531st March 2022

DISA News Announcements: DISA’s Cybersecurity & Analytics Directorate will provide cybersecurity awareness refresher training courses over the next few weeks DISA improves Enterprise Email Security Gateway STIG Updates: MongoDB Enterprise Advanced 4.x STIG Motorola Solutions ...

Pensando Completes Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification

11th March 2022

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner Pensando Systems, Inc. on completing the Common Criteria certification process for their Distributed Services Platform v1.28.0-E-96. Pensando and Corsec worked together to complete this custom security target EAL2+ ...

DINAMO Completes FIPS 140 Level 3 Validation of HSMs

2nd March 2022

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, DINAMO Networks, Inc., for completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation on their CD/XP/ST Hardware Security Modules (HSM). To achieve this milestone, DINAMO partnered with ...

Fed Roundup: February 2022

20th November 20252nd March 2022

DISA News Announcements: Army Maj. Gen. Garrett Yee is retiring 2022 AFCEA TechNet Cyber Symposium iis set for April STIG Updates: Automated benchmark for the Ubuntu v20.04 SCAP STIG Draft Oracle Linux 8 STIG SCAP ...

Fed Roundup: January 2022

20th November 20251st February 2022

DISA News DISA appoints new Operations and Infrastructure Center Director - Don Means Jr DISA appoints 1st Diversity Chief - Damien Terry STIG Updates SLES 15 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) benchmark DISA released Unclassified ...

Presidential Memorandum on Securing the DoD & Intel Communities

7th February 202227th January 2022

On January 19th, 2022, President Biden signed a National Security Memorandum (NSM) to further improve the cybersecurity of the United States. This NSM signifies a renewed focus by the administration to protect National Security Systems ...

Fed Roundup: December 2021

20th November 20255th January 2022

DISA News Former chief of staff Laura Radney became DISA’s first Culture and Employee Engagement Program Director STIG Updates Draft Canonical Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) benchmark ...

Citrix Completes FIPS 140 Revalidation of Their ADC VPX

7th February 202213th December 2021

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Citrix Systems, Inc., for completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation on their ADC VPX v12.1.55.180. To achieve this milestone, Citrix partnered with Corsec, completing ...

Fed Roundup: November 2021

7th February 202230th November 2021

DISA News DISA has a new Chief of Staff The changes that DISA Joint Service Provider (JSP) centers have made to accommodate telework personnel continue to pay off STIG Updates CA IDMS Security Technical Implementation ...

CUBIC & DTECH Labs M3 Series Router Added to the DoDIN APL

21st July 202610th November 2021

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, DTECH Labs, Inc. (Cubic), on completing the DoDIN APL process for their M3 Series (M3-SE4, M3-SE-SVR4, M3-PM-SVR4, M3X-APP, and M3-SE-APP4) routers. DTECH partnered with Corsec to achieve this ...

FED Roundup: October 2021

20th November 20259th November 2021

DISA News None STIG Updates Microsoft Edge Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) Apple iOS/iPad OS 15 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) Ivanti MobileIron Sentry 9.x Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) Google Android 12 Security Technical ...

Vocera Crypto Module Achieves FIPS 140 Validation

7th February 202221st October 2021

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Vocera Communications, Inc., on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process on their Vocera Crypto Module v3.1. To achieve this milestone, Vocera partnered ...