Fed Roundup: July 2024
DISA News Announcements: The Office of the DoD CIO has outlined news strategies to drive change DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner speaks on the need to partner with industry to protect the DoD's ...
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Fed Roundup: June 2024
DISA News Announcements: None Security Technical Implementation Guide Updates: None NIST News Updates & Announcements: None Special Publications & Interagency Reports: Draft SP 800-224 Draft IR 8505, A Data Protection Approach for Cloud-Native Applications Comments ...
Resolution on the CMVP’s FIPS 140 Queue
On Feb 21, 2024, the CMVP made a big announcement regarding modules which had been submitted for FIPS 140 validation: "Due to the issues caused by the queue length, the CMVP has made a decision ...
FIPS 186-5 & Its Impact on FIPS 140-3
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fed Roundup: November 2022
DISA News Announcements: To meet the need of DoD changes in the workforce, DISA has established the DOD365 Integrated Phone System DISA continues to seek partners to combat global threats On November 7th, DISA held ...
The EUCC and What it Means for You
There has been a great deal of discussion on a new certification process originating in Europe, specifically related to cybersecurity. Corsec outlines what the new certification is, how it will apply to vendors around the ...
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 ...
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. ...
Fed Roundup: June 2022
DISA News Announcements: Air Force Chief Master Sgt. David P. Klink retires New computer equipment and upgrades coming fo the Fourth Estate Network Optimization Program Office STIG Updates: Pre-release version of the STIG Applicability Guide ...
Fed Roundup: May 2022
DISA News Announcements: The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) has begun construction on a new testing and evaluation facility A new U.S.-U.K. Defence Communications Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed STIG Updates: Revised Microsoft ...
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 ...
Fed Roundup: March 2022
DISA News Announcements: DISA’s Cybersecurity & Analytics Directorate will provide cybersecurity awareness refresher training courses over the next few weeks DISA improves Enterprise Email Security Gateway STIG Updates: MongoDB Enterprise Advanced 4.x STIG Motorola Solutions ...
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 ...
Fed Roundup: January 2022
DISA News DISA appoints new Operations and Infrastructure Center Director - Don Means Jr DISA appoints 1st Diversity Chief - Damien Terry STIG Updates SLES 15 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) benchmark DISA released Unclassified ...
Presidential Memorandum on Securing the DoD & Intel Communities
On January 19th, 2022, President Biden signed a National Security Memorandum (NSM) to further improve the cybersecurity of the United States. This NSM signifies a renewed focus by the administration to protect National Security Systems ...
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 ...
Fed Roundup: November 2021
DISA News DISA has a new Chief of Staff The changes that DISA Joint Service Provider (JSP) centers have made to accommodate telework personnel continue to pay off STIG Updates CA IDMS Security Technical Implementation ...
FED Roundup: October 2021
DISA News None STIG Updates Microsoft Edge Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) Apple iOS/iPad OS 15 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) Ivanti MobileIron Sentry 9.x Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) Google Android 12 Security Technical ...