U.S. Gov

MONTHLY FED ROUNDUP – AUGUST 2018

DISA’s August News DISA expands its unclassified mobile device management service DISA's Mission Assurance Branch vows readiness across warfighter domains DISA names a new OSBP Director DoD reviews lessons learned on milCloud 2.0 DISA's Apple ...

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MONTHLY FED ROUNDUP – JULY 2018

DISA’s July News DISA awards $49M contract for National Background Investigation System DISA's Hawaiian network services receive modernization NIST’s July News NIST is withdrawing eleven outdated Special Publications (SP) Releases & Special Publications: SP 1800-2, Identity ...

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MONTHLY FED ROUNDUP – JUNE 2018

DISA’s June News DISA SETI IDIQ Contract Awarded to 14 Large Businesses Innovative Solutions for EMS 3 Improvements to the DoD Mobility Program New Security Clearance Application NIST’s June News Special Publications: SP 800-171A, Assessing Security ...

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MONTHLY FED ROUNDUP – MAY 2018

DISA’s May News DISA Reshapes Computing Ecosystem DISA and JFHQ-DODIN increase DOD’s Lethality Cloud Migration Lessons Learned Defense Enterprise Office Solution to improve performance, affordability of DOD enterprise services DOD Identity and Access Management Capabilities …

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DoDIN APL

Potential DoDIN APL Removals

The APCO (Approved Products Certification Office), which governs the Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL), has taken action to suggest stronger enforcement of regulations regarding how companies address their open Plan ...

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DoDIN APL

DoD Changes UC APL name to DoDIN APL

The Department of Defense has changed the name of the list it uses for the procurement of IT products to be used over the DoD network infrastructures. Previously names the Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL), …

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DHS Begins Work to Meet New EO

In May, President Trump issued a new Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, requiring all heads of executive agencies and departments to modernize and strengthen the cybersecurity utilized within …

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Pentagon Releases New Security Policies

Last Friday’s DoD Industry Day on Network Penetration Reporting and Contracting for Cloud Services came with a big announcement from the Pentagon’s head of IT – DoD CIO John Zangardi. The Pentagon will begin to hold contractors …

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DISA Network Modernization

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is evolving their infrastructure to combat concerns over connectivity and security, efficiency, and cost. DISA’s present issues relate to outside components connecting to its network because the infrastructure is outdated. …

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President Doubles Down on Cybersecurity

On May 11th, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order requiring all heads of executive agencies and departments to modernize and strengthen cybersecurity within Federal networks and critical infrastructure. The order acknowledged that the government’s …

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Common Criteria

Common Criteria NDcPP Version 2 Released

The newest version of the Common Criteria Network Device Collaborative Protection Profile (NDcPP) and Supporting Documents (SD) has been released. Key changes in version 2.0 include: Support for distributed TOEs Updated X509 certificate authentication requirements …

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CMVP Changes to FIPS 140-2

During the recent Cryptographic Module User Forum (CMUF) meeting, CMVP, which oversees FIPS 140-2 validations in the United States and Canada, announced updates and changes to policy for stagnant modules, the historical list, and documentation …

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Updates to CMVP’s Sunsetting Policy

From the CMVP on their validation Sunsetting Policy: The CMVP is adopting a five year validation sunsetting policy, effective February 1, 2017. The CMVP will move all validation entries with most recent validation dates** prior to February 1, …

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New Guidance On FIPS 140-2 Listings

The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), which was established by NIST to validate modules for the Federal Information Processions Standard (FIPS), has announced upcoming policy changes for the Modules In Process (MIP) list and Implementation Under Test …

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Corsec Named Owler ‘HOT in 2016’ Winner

Owler (a Crowdsourced Competitive Intelligence Platform) recognizes the top trending companies in cities around the world. They filtered through more than 15 million companies and picked 4,500 award winners across 600 cities worldwide. Recipients were …

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Corsec Cares Collects Food During Holiday Season

Every year Corsec Cares collects donations from team members and delivers them to a local organization to help ensure families in the district are able to enjoy and celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday season. For the second …

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Corsec Cares Assists FIRST LEGO League

As part of Corsec Cares, Corsec’s CEO, Matthew Appler, teamed up with FIRST Lego League (FLL), a local organization to help students expand their engineering enthusiasm and find solutions to real word issues. FLL is …

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