U.S. Gov

MONTHLY FED ROUNDUP – AUGUST 2017

DISA’s August News DISA formulates strategy to upgrade telecommunications infrastructure in Hawaii for 2018 DISA Central Field Command changes leadership as Army COL Corey Brumsey assumes command Air Force Col Trevor A. Wall takes command of …

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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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U.S. Gov

MONTHLY FED ROUNDUP – JULY 2017

DISA’s July News DISA’s Joint Staff Support Center (JSSC) has transferred leadership as Air Force Col Douglas S. Shahan assumes command DISA offers training for DoD and Non-DoD entities trying to establish, re-accredit, or re-certify …

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DoD APL Myths

Dispelling DoDIN APL Listing Myths

The hoops that companies must jump through in order to sell into the Federal government can be difficult to understand and sometimes misleading. As with any government process, misconceptions surrounding what is required begin to …

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Corsec at Modern Day Marine 2016

Next week Corsec will be joining thousands of government leaders, industry partners, and members of academia at Modern Day Marine in Quantico, VA to discuss the future of technology within the DoD. Companies looking to meet …

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Cyber-Defense

Pentagon Increases Spending On Cyber Defense

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that the Pentagon would be spending an additional $900 million in 2017 to enhance cyber defense measures. This comes after last years hack of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), resulting …

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DoDIN APL

Cisco Completes DoDIN APL Listing with Corsec

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Cisco, on successfully completing all the necessary requirements to achieve listing on the DoD’s Information Network Approved Product List (DoDIN APL).  Cisco’s Information Assurance Tool (IAT), StealthWatch Rel. …

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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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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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RMF and the DoD's UC APL

RMF: Is It Replacing the DoDIN APL and other Security Certifications?

As companies tap into the growing addressable markets for Commercial and FED, they are confronted with a litany of standards, acronyms and security validations they must overcome in order to stay relevant. The list is daunting, and making sense of this has been our singular focus for the past 18 years. In that time, we…