Corsec Security Certification Blog

Fed Roundup: November 2023

5th December 2023

DISA News Announcements: DISA exceeding small business goals DISA leveraging classified cloud Security Technical Implementation Guide Updates: VMware vSphere 8.0 STIG Samsung Android OS 14 with Knox 3.x Ivanti Connect Secure Out-of-cycle F5 BIG-IP STIG ...

Fed Roundup: October 2023

1st November 2023

DISA News Announcements: GPO Updates October 2023 Quarterly Maintenance Release DISA renews focus on Zero Trust Security Technical Implementation Guide Updates: Microsoft Windows STIG & SCAP Draft Unified Communications SRG Apple iOS/iPadOS 17 Google Android ...

Fed Roundup: September 2023

3rd October 2023

DISA News Announcements: DISA’s Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC) released the Distributed Hybrid Multi Cloud (DHMC) request for White Papers (RWP) Security Technical Implementation Guide Updates: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 Draft Cloud Computing ...

Hughes Completes Two FIPS 140 Validations of HT Satellite Systems

6th September 2023

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Hughes Network Systems, LLC, on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process on their HT Satellite Terminal (HT2010) and HT Satellite Terminals (HT2300, ...

Fed Roundup: August 2023

31st August 2023

DISA News Announcements: U.S. Navy Capt. Anthony Saxon has taken over command of the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) DISA's Hosting and Computer Center has launched a OCONUS Cloud Solution DISA has taken over the ...

Fed Roundup: July 2023

1st August 2023

DISA News Announcements: None Security Technical Implementation Guide Updates: SRG/STIG Library Compilation Updates TOSS 4 STIG benchmark July 2023 Quarterly Maintenance Release July Group Policy Objects (GPOs) NIST News Updates & Announcements: The CMVP has ...

Fed Roundup: June 2023

30th June 2023

DISA News Announcements: Orion Cyber Operations Center-Hill opens DISA-Fort Meade AbilityOne Base Supply Center (BSC) opens Security Technical Implementation Guide Updates: BlackBerry CylancePROTECT Mobile for UEM STIG Apple macOS 13 STIG -Ver 1, Rel 2 ...

Ctrl IQ Completes CAVP Algorithm Certificate Process

21st June 202315th June 2023

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Ctrl IQ, Inc., on successfully completing the testing of their cryptographic algorithms. As part of the FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 140-3 module validation submission process, vendors must complete Cryptographic Algorithm Validation ...

Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) MPX Now Listed on the DoDIN APL

6th June 202412th June 2023

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Citrix Systems, Inc., on completing the DoDIN APL process for their Application Delivery Controller (ADC) MPX. To achieve this milestone, Citrix partnered with Corsec, both teams working to ...

Cloud Software Group Completes ESV Process

21st June 20237th June 2023

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Cloud Software Group (CSG), on completing the Entropy Source Validation (ESV) process for their NetScaler CPU Jitter Entropy Source. As part of the FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 140-3 ...

Fed Roundup: May 2023

31st May 2023

DISA News Announcements: DISA discusses alignment with the National Defense Strategy DISA awards 3 representatives at AFCEA Washington Security Technical Implementation Guide Updates: Quarterly SRG/STIG update Out-of-cycle STIG and SCAP benchmark updates Out-of-Cycle STIG & SRG ...

Fed Roundup: April 2023

4th May 2023

DISA News Announcements: None Security Technical Implementation Guide Updates: Red Hat Ansible Automation Controller STIG released Apple macOS 13 (Ventura) STIG approved Updates to Security Guidance, Security Readiness Review Scripts, Supplemental Automation Content, and Benchmarks ...

ControlUp Completes NIST’s FIPS 140 Validation Process

3rd May 2023

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, ControlUp Technologies, Inc. on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process on their ControlUp Cryptographic Library. To achieve this milestone, ControlUp partnered with ...

Fed Roundup: March 2023

4th May 20234th April 2023

DISA News Announcements: None STIG Updates: SCAP SCC released SCC 5.7.1 VMware vSphere 7.0 STIG Draft Kubernetes STIG and SCAP benchmark NIST News Updates & Announcements: NIST has revised FIPS 180-4, Secure Hash Standard (SHS) Special ...

iDirect Completes FIPS 140-2 Validation of TRANSEC Module

23rd March 2023

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, iDirect Government, LLC, on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process on their TRANSEC Module. To achieve this milestone, iDirect partnered with Corsec, ...

Hughes’ Networks IPsec IP Gateway Server Completes FIPS 140 Validation

22nd March 2023

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Hughes Network Systems, LLC, on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process on their Networks IPsec IP Gateway Server. To achieve this milestone, ...

HP FIPS 140-2 Validates Tera2 PCoIP Zero Client Processors

21st March 202321st March 2023

Corsec would like to congratulate the HP Anyware team on completing the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process on their Tera2 PCoIP Zero Client Processors. To achieve this milestone, the HP ...

Qumulo Completes Common Criteria Evaluation

6th June 202414th March 2023

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner Qumulo, Inc. on completing the Common Criteria certification process for their Qumulo Core v5.1.1 solution. Qumlo and Corsec worked together to complete this custom security target EAL2+ Common ...

Fed Roundup: February 2023

1st March 2023

DISA News Announcements: DISA will lead the U.S. Blue team for the annual Locked Shields cyber exercise STIG Updates: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Security Technical Implementation Guide Riverbed NetProfiler Security Technical Implementation Guide Arista Multi-Layer ...

FIPS 186-5 & Its Impact on FIPS 140-3

28th February 2023

In 1994 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) released a collaborative standard to specify a suite of algorithms that could be used to generate a digital signature. ...