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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 ...

Citrix Completes FIPS 140-2 Validation of ADC VPX

7th February 202224th October 2020

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Citrix Systems, Inc., for completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation on their ADC VPX. To achieve this milestone, Citrix partnered with Corsec, completing the ...

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 ...

AudioCodes Completes FIPS 140-2 Validation

7th February 202224th September 2020

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, AudioCodes, for completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation on their Mediant Session Border Controllers. To achieve this milestone, AudioCodes partnered with Corsec, completing the validation ...

Enovate Medical Crypto Module Achieves FIPS 140 Validation

7th February 202210th September 2020

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Enovate Medical LLC, for completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation on their FIPS Cryptographic Module for EcoFlex, Rhythm, Envoy, and Encore. To achieve this ...

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 ...

Forcepoint Attains CC Certification of Data Guard Solution

7th February 202213th July 2020

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner Forcepoint on completing the Common Criteria certification process on their Forcepoint Data Guard v3.0. To achieve this milestone, Forcepoint partnered with Corsec, completing the evaluation under a custom ...

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 ...

Acronis SCS Completes DoDIN APL Process for Cyber Backup 12.5 Hardened Edition

7th February 20224th May 2020

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Acronis SCS, on completing the DoDIN APL process for their Cyber Backup 12.5 Hardened Edition. Acronis SCS partnered with Corsec to achieve this milestone and over the past ...

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 ...

COVID-19: Corsec Continues to Operate

7th February 202227th April 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe, Corsec staff have transitioned to a telework policy to ensure the health and wellbeing of our staff, their family, and the community. We feel fortunate to ...

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 ...

FED Roundup: March 2020

7th February 202231st March 2020

DISA News Temporary Changes to milDrive DISA Dir Norton Interviews during Women's History Month DISA Protects Teleworks with renewed Anti-Virus licenses NIST News Announcements: NIST ITL Bulletin on Teleworking Releases & Special Publications: Revision 1 ...

NIST Guidance: Teleworking Security

7th February 202220th March 2020

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new IT Laboratory Bulletin on Telework Security. The bulletin draws from the original 2016 NIST Special Publication 800-46 Revision 2, Guide to Enterprise Telework, ...

FED Roundup: February 2020

7th February 20224th March 2020

DISA News DISA Drumbeat DISA hosts members of academia to expand its #NEXTGEN outreach to enhance cybersecurity moving forward NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: NISTIR 8287: "A Roadmap for Successful Regional Alliances ...

Teradici Achieves IUT Listing

7th February 202221st February 2020

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Teradici Corporation, for achieving the Implementation Under Test (IUT) phase of the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation process for their PCoIP Zero Client product. To ...

PIVOT3 COMPLETES COMMON CRITERIA RECERTIFICATION

7th February 20224th February 2020

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner Pivot3 on completing the Assurance Continuity process of Common Criteria for their Acuity hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software platform. To read more about the product and Pivot3's achievement, visit ...