Fed Roundup: November 2022
DISA News Announcements: To meet the need of DoD changes in the workforce, DISA has established the DOD365 Integrated Phone System DISA continues to seek partners to combat global threats On November 7th, DISA held ...
Algorithm Testing
Fed Roundup: October 2022
DISA News Announcements: Army Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Papenfus is now the new assistant to the director of DISA GPO Updates STIG Updates: Blackberry Enterprise Mobility Server (BEMS) 3.x STIG Rancher Government Solutions RKE2 STIG ...
Fed Roundup: September 2022
DISA News Announcements: Caroline Bean is the new Senior Executive Service at DISA Headquarters STIG Updates: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Security Technical Implementation Guide SPEC Innovations Innoslate 4.x Security Technical Implementation Guide Draft Windows 11 ...
Fed Roundup: August 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 ...
Fed Roundup: July 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
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 ...
Fed Roundup: May 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
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
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 ...
Fed Roundup: February 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
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 ...
Fed Roundup: December 2021
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 ...
FED Roundup: October 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 ...
FED Roundup: September 2021
DISA News DISA issued a two-year Provisional Authorization for Unclassified Splunk Cloud Fed STIG Updates IBM WebSphere Liberty Server Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) SCC Development Team released SCC 5.4.2 HYCU for Nutanix Security Technical ...
Key Agreement Schemes
As the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) prepares for the transition to automated algorithm testing, more and more algorithms are being subjected to the testing process. Testing for the key agreement schemes specified in NIST ...
Update On NIST’S Post Quantum Cryptography Requirements
After a great discussion in Japan at the 7th Annual Post-Quantum Crypto Conference (PQCrypto 2016) back in February, NIST has taken the next step and announced they are seeking additional input and comments on their draft proposal for “Post-Quantum Cryptography: Proposed Requirements …
Entropy and RNG – NIST’s Draft SP 800-90B
Last month NIST released a draft publication on sources of Entropy and randomness in protecting sensitive data. The draft Special Publication “SP 800-90B, Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation”, is intended to …