Fed Update

Fed Roundup: January 2023

DISA News Announcements: DISA has begun user testing of the DOD365-Sec cloud system STIG Updates: Updates to the Group Policy Objects (GPOs) Quarterly Updates to the SRG/STIG Library Compilation Updates to Application STIGs Updates to ...

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Fed Update

Fed Roundup: December 2022

DISA News Announcements: DISA issued a provisional authorization for cloud services by Google Services DISA decommissioned the DoD Enterprise Email (DEE) system on Nov 30, 2022 STIG Updates: TOSS 4 Security Technical Implementation Guide Microsoft ...

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Fed Update

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 ...

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Fed Update

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. ...

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Fed Update

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 ...

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Fed Update

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 ...

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Fed Update

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 ...

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Fed Update

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 ...

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Fed Update

FED Roundup: July 2021

Fed Update

FED Roundup: June 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 ...

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Fed Update

FED Roundup: May 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 ...

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Fed Update

FED Roundup: 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 ...

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Automation

Further Automation Within The CMVP

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 ...

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Fed Update

FED Roundup: January 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 ...

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Fed Update

FED Roundup: November 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 ...

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Fed Update

FED Roundup: October 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 ...

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Fed Update

FED Roundup: September 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 ...

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Fed Update

FED Roundup: August 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 ...

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Algorithm Transition Dates

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 ...

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Fed Update

FED Roundup: 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 ...

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