FIPS 140-2 News and Releases

FED ROUNDUP: JULY 2019

1st August 201931st July 2019

DISA News DISA Awards SETI IDIQ to 23 Small Businesses DISA Releases 4 Year Strategic Plan NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: SP 1800-17, Multifactor Authentication for E-Commerce: Risk-Based, FIDO Universal Second Factor ...

FED ROUNDUP: JUNE 2019

31st July 201928th June 2019

DISA’s June News DITCO, DISA's contracting arm, reduces its enterprise acquisition services fee NIST’s June News Announcements: NIST announces Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL), Version 1.0.0 - Milestone 1 has been released Releases & ...

FED ROUNDUP: MAY 2019

12th June 20194th June 2019

DISA’s May News DISA enhances collaboration with a Global Video Services throughout DoD DISA aims to consolidate the common use information technology (IT) infrastructure for the Department of Defense’s (DOD) “fourth estate” The DoD continues ...

FIPS 140-3 APPROVED

31st July 20191st May 2019

A Federal Register Notice has been issued for the "Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3, Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules". Having now been signed by the U.S. Commerce Secretary, it is official, FIPS 140-3 has ...

FED ROUNDUP: APRIL 2019

12th June 201930th April 2019

DISA’s April News DISA profiles their Network Mapping Tool for Internet Attack Surface DISA's Defense Collaboration Services (DCS) now has an integrated teleconferencing capability available to DOD employees DISA Command Center (DCC) plans to implement ...

FED ROUNDUP: MARCH 2019

31st July 201931st March 2019

DISA’s March News DISA Cloud Based Storage Solution Enables Warfighter DISA National Background Investigation Service (DNBIS) now under DSS control DISA Web Based Platform: Automating Service Orders NIST’s March News Announcements: NIST works to develop ...

HPE Smart Array Gen10 P-Class RAID Controllers

12th June 201914th March 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate the entire HPE Smart Array team on completing the FIPS 140-2 validation process. The completion of the certification process not only opens the doors to new and exciting markets for HPE, but also demonstrates their fervent commitment ...

FED ROUNDUP: FEBRUARY 2019

31st July 201926th February 2019

DISA’s February News DISA grants Provisional Authorization (PA) with conditions to the Adobe Experience Manager for Managed Services (AEMMS) at data Impact Level 4 DISA grants Provisional Authorization (PA) with conditions to PTC Cloud Services ...

Certes Finalizes CEP FIPS Validation

31st July 201926th February 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Certes Networks, Inc. (Certes), for completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation on their Certes Enforcement Points (CEP). To achieve this milestone, Certes partnered with ...

FED ROUNDUP: JANUARY 2019

31st July 201930th January 2019

DISA’s January News DISA's Mission Partner Engagement Office (MPEO) increases forum frequency NIST’s January News Announcement: NIST PQC Standardization Process Candidates Announced Releases & Special Publications: Draft NISTIR 8196, "Security Analysis of First Responder Mobile ...

FirstNet: Secure Communications for First Responders

10th January 2019

The recent deployment of the The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) program led to many questions from our partners on what the program was, how they could get involved, and what steps they needed to ...

Government Shut Down: Resources

31st July 20197th January 2019

Having trouble finding the right resources during the Government Shut Down? Navigating to government pages that look like the one above? During the shut down, many government services are unavailable, preventing access to information that ...

MONTHLY FED ROUNDUP – NOVEMBER 2018

31st July 201928th November 2018

DISA’s November News DISA holds Forecast to Industry DISA celebrates Marines Corp Birthday NIST’s November News Releases & Special Publications: Draft NISTIR 8219, "Securing Manufacturing Industrial Control Systems: Behavioral Anomaly Detection SP 1800-19, Trusted Cloud: Security ...

Forcepoint Completes FIPS Validation of NGFW

29th July 201912th November 2018

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Forecpoint, on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation for their Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). To achieve this milestone, Forcepoint partnered with Corsec, completing the ...

OmniStack Added to FIPS 140-2 Validated Modules

6th December 201830th October 2018

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, HPE, on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation for the Simplivity OmniStack. To achieve this milestone, HPE partnered with Corsec, completing the certification at ...

MONTHLY FED ROUNDUP – OCTOBER 2018

6th December 201830th October 2018

DISA’s October News DISA Global Operations Center West at Hill AF Base Utah up and running DoD Mobility Program expands unclassified service offerings Acropolis, formerly known as the Community Data Center (CDC), strengthens the DoDIN ...

Docker Completes FIPS 140-2 Validation

6th December 201818th October 2018

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Docker, on completing the validation process for the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) on their Enterprise Edition Crypto Module. Docker partnered with Corsec to complete the ...

FED IT Spending: Reviewing 2018 & Gauging 2019

6th December 201812th October 2018

2018 FEDERAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2018 was a stellar year for companies doing business with U.S. Federal Agencies. Over $95.6 billion dollars were allocated towards the procurement of secured IT products and solutions across Civilian, DoD, and ...

MONTHLY FED ROUNDUP – SEPTEMBER 2018

25th September 2018

DISA’s September News DISA Celebrates Air Force's 71st Birthday 2nd Operations Watch Floor Added to Protect DoD Information Network ENCORE III SBSA Awarded NIST’s September News Releases & Special Publications: SP 1800-5, IT Asset Management Draft ...

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Shut Down Your Computer

31st July 201925th September 2018

Although Cold Boot Attacks are considered to be somewhat of an antiquated method, largely due to the need for an attacker to have physical access to the machine, they still represent a threat to unprotected ...