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FED Roundup: January 2020

7th February 20224th February 2020

DISA News DISA works to improve JRSS capabilities NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: Draft NISTIR 8278, "National Cybersecurity Online References (OLIR) Program: Guidance for OLIR Users and Developers." Draft NIST Special Publication ...

FED Roundup: December 2019

7th February 20221st January 2020

DISA News DISA celebrates 244th Marine Corps birthday NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: Special Publication (SP) 800-189, "Resilient Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Security and DDoS Mitigation," Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-208, "Recommendation ...

2019 FIPS Implementation Guidance Updates

7th February 202218th December 2019

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency that governs FIPS 140-2 validations in the United States, periodically releases updates and revisions to the Implementation Guidance (IG) used to evaluate products against FIPS ...

FED Roundup: November 2019

2nd December 2019

DISA News The Fourth Estate Network Optimization Execution Guidance memorandum was signed, designating DISA as the single service provider of common use information technology services DISA held its annual Forecast to Industry on Nov 4, ...

Ribbon Completes FIPS 140-2 Validation of Sonus SBC

13th July 202013th November 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Ribbon Communications, for completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation on their Sonus SBC 5400 Session Border Controller R6.2.2. To achieve this milestone, Ribbon partnered ...

CyberArk Common Criteria Certification Complete

4th November 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, CyberArk Software Ltd., on completing the Common Criteria certification process for their Privileged Access Security Solution (PAS). PAS helps government organizations prevent the theft, abuse, and misuse of ...

FED Roundup: October 2019

2nd December 20194th November 2019

DISA News The U.S. Air Force selects Core Automated Maintenance System for Mobility to be singular Maintenance Information System NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: Draft FIPS 186-5 and Draft NIST Special Publication ...

Algorithm Testing & Automation: The Change from CAVS to ACVTS

7th February 202225th October 2019

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) and the Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) will soon be transitioning to an automated process for algorithm testing. ...

FED ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER 2019

4th October 2019

DISA News DISA moderated a panel during TechNet Augusta 2019 that discussed classified mobile capabilities, assured identity, and secure access to data NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: NISTIR 8183A (3 volumes), Cybersecurity ...

Dell’s VxRail Finishes Common Criteria Certification

10th September 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Dell Technologies, Inc. on completing the Common Criteria certification process for the latest version of their Dell EMC VxRail Appliance 4.5 product. VxRail is a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance ...

FED ROUNDUP: AUGUST 2019

3rd September 2019

DISA News DISA improves Cloud Authorization process DISA Deployed the DOD Secure Access File Exchange (DOD SAFE) NIST News Announcements: None Releases & Special Publications: SP 800-52 Revision 2, "Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and ...

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 ...

Forcepoint NGFW Engine Added to DoDIN APL

29th July 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Forcepoint, on completing the DoDIN APL process for their Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Engine. Forcepoint partnered with Corsec to achieve this milestone and over the past year the ...

Infinidat Successfully Completes FIPS 140-2

9th July 201928th June 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Infinidat, for completing the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) validation on their Infinidat Cryptographic Module. To achieve this milestone, Infinidat partnered with Corsec, completing the validation ...

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 ...

Big Switch Networks Completes Common Criteria

10th September 201924th May 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Big Switch Networks, a leader in open software defined networking; on completing the Common Criteria certification process. The completion of the certification process not only opens the doors to new and ...

FIPS 140-3 APPROVED

7th February 20221st 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 ...

Certes CFNC Achieves Common Criteria

12th June 201915th April 2019

Corsec would like to congratulate our partner, Certes Networks, Inc. (Certes), for completing the Common Criteria (CC) certification process on their CryptoFlow Net Creator (CFNC) with CEP. To achieve this milestone, Certes partnered with Corsec, ...