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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: February 2022

2nd 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: December 2021

7th February 20225th 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 ...

FED Roundup: September 2021

7th February 202230th 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 ...

FED Roundup: July 2021

7th February 20221st August 2021

DISA News

DISA is scheduled to sunset the Defense Collaboration Services for non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network on September 1, 2021

STIG Updates

FED Roundup: June 2021

7th February 20222nd July 2021

DISA News None STIG Updates Samsung SDS EMM Zebra Android 10 NIST News Announcements: None Special Publications & Updates: Draft NISTIR 8270, "Introduction to Cybersecurity for Commercial Satellite Operations" NIST Cybersecurity White Paper, "Combinatorial Coverage ...

FED Roundup: May 2021

7th February 20221st June 2021

DISA News Initial Zero Trust Reference Architecture delivered STIG Updates Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with Ansible Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 STIG Benchmark SRG/STIG Applicability Guide for Linux, Mac, and Windows SRG/STIG Library Compilations ...

FED Roundup: April 2021

7th February 202230th April 2021

DISA News Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner discusses data security STIG Updates Canonical Ubuntu 20.04 LTS STIG Released VMware vSphere 6.7 STIG Released Kubernetes STIG Released Cisco ISE STIG Released NIST News Announcements: The ...

Further Automation Within The CMVP

7th February 202229th April 2021

The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) is a part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) which operates under the Department of Commerce. The CMVP's role is to promote the use of validated ...

FED Roundup: January 2021

7th February 20221st February 2021

DISA News DISA continues to work towards implementation of the DISA Strategic Plan FY 2019-2022 Version 2, released in December of 2020. Assessment Requirements for IT services will now be placed in DISA contracts as ...

FED Roundup: November 2020

7th February 20222nd December 2020

DISA News DISA's Global Video Services – Unclassified expands to include voice dial-in capability STIG Updates DISA has released the Juniper SRX for Anisble Automation Package DISA has released the Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 STIG DISA ...

FED Roundup: October 2020

7th February 20224th November 2020

DISA News DISA has released updates to the SRG/STIG Library Compilations DISA celebrates National Cybersecurity Awareness Month STIG Updates Application STIGs Mobility STIGs and SRGs Network STIGs and SRGs Operating System STIGs and Overviews Benchmarks ...

FED Roundup: September 2020

7th February 20221st October 2020

DISA News (None) NIST News Announcements: (None) Special Publications & Updates: Draft NISTIR 8301, "Blockchain Networks: Token Design and Management Overview" Draft NISTIR 8235, "Security Guidance for First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices," Special Publication ...

FED Roundup: August 2020

7th February 20221st September 2020

DISA News The National Background Investigative System Directorate has become one of the first DoD agencies to adopted DevSecOps DISA has extended the Provisional Authorization for the Microsoft Azure Secret Region as a cloud service ...

Algorithm Transition Dates

29th April 202130th August 2020

Recent Implementation Guidance (IG) from NIST could impact vendor algorithms. The following overview has been created to summarize those critical dates and associated algorithms. AES CBC-CS1, CBC-CS2, CBC-CS3 (IG A.12) Until Sep. 1, 2020, implementations ...

FED Roundup: July 2020

7th February 202231st July 2020

DISA News The DISA Commander, Navy Vice Adm Norton, announced a new path to address cybersecurity for the warfighter DISA and other DoD agencies can now use the Systems Engineering, Technology and Innovation contract The ...

FED Roundup: June 2020

7th February 202230th June 2020

DISA News DISA & JFH-DODIN hold virtual awards ceremony NIST News Announcements: Release of OSCAL 1.0.0 Milestone 3 Special Publications & Updates: SP 800-63, Digital Identity Guidelines: SP 800-63A Enrollment and Identity Proofing SP 800-63B Authentication ...

Key Agreement Schemes

7th February 202226th June 2020

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 ...

FED Roundup: April 2020

7th February 20224th May 2020

DISA News DISA provides connectivity to DoD COVID Response Unit NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper on "Methodology for Characterizing Network Behavior of Internet of Things Devices" Draft ...

Limiting the Use of FIPS 186-2

7th February 202222nd April 2020

New guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding the use of Digital Signatures will be impacting a number of FIPS 140-2 validations in the near future. This guidance will send many ...