The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), which was established by NIST to validate modules for the Federal Information Processions Standard (FIPS), has announced upcoming policy changes for the Modules In Process (MIP) list and Implementation Under Test …
Owler (a Crowdsourced Competitive Intelligence Platform) recognizes the top trending companies in cities around the world. They filtered through more than 15 million companies and picked 4,500 award winners across 600 cities worldwide. Recipients were …
Every year Corsec Cares collects donations from team members and delivers them to a local organization to help ensure families in the district are able to enjoy and celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday season. For the second …
As part of Corsec Cares, Corsec’s CEO, Matthew Appler, teamed up with FIRST Lego League (FLL), a local organization to help students expand their engineering enthusiasm and find solutions to real word issues. FLL is …
CMVP; the governing body that oversees U.S. FIPS 140-2 validations, has made drastic changes over the past year to policy governing product certification longevity. This week they went one step further and have now updated …
President Obama created two new executive orders on Tuesday: The first, a Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, dedicated to “enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections at all levels of Government, business, and society, to protect privacy, to ensure public safety …
On January 28th, 2016, OpenSSL released a patch to update a high risk vulnerability. It was discovered and reported that prime “files may not be “safe”. Where an application is using DH configured with parameters …
Product vendors often rely on OpenSSL to meet FIPS requirements. However, with the new CMVP requirements and regulations, vendors using certain versions of the OpenSSL cryptographic library to meet FIPS 140-2 requirements are in jeopardy …
Corsec’s philanthropy group, Corsec Cares, recently donated and delivered a box of gifts to the local Fairfax Toys For Tots location. The U.S. Marine Corps Reserves’ Toys for Tots program has been collecting and delivering new unwrapped …
Corsec Cares (Corsec’s team members dedicated to philanthropy efforts), recently collected and delivered food donations for a local organization in Fairfax County to help families in need during the Thanksgiving holiday. Corsec is pleased to have donated …
As part of Corsec Cares, Corsec team members have collected school supplies and donated them to FACETS, a local organization in Fairfax, VA. FACETS is collecting supplies to help children in the area prepare for …
In response to client demand, Corsec has recently relocated our global headquarters to Herndon, Virginia. The significantly larger space houses critical infrastructure and a growing staff of tech professionals. The new facility is equipped with …
Industry Experts Selected to Deliver Critical Guidance and Insights at Leading IT Security Conferences Fairfax, VA, September 8, 2014 – Corsec, the world’s leader in providing access to new markets via third-party security validations, recently …
Fairfax, VA, May 14, 2011 – Corsec Security, Inc., the leader in FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria documentation, project management and consulting services, today announced that NIST’s Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) queue is down …
Corsec Expands service offering to include DoDIN APL certification. Fairfax, VA, January 12, 2012 – Corsec Security, Inc., the leader in FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria documentation and project management services is announcing the addition of …
Corsec Security, Inc., the leading provider of FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria documentation and consulting services, today announced the completion of the 200th certificate they have achieved for IT Security vendors across the globe. Fairfax, …
Company Provides Path Towards Successful DoDIN APL Inclusion, Opening United States Department of Defense Market for IT Products Fairfax, VA, February 18, 2014 – Corsec, the world’s leader in providing access to new markets via …
At Corsec, we just celebrated our 15th year of business in the security validation consulting industry. As you might imagine, we spent some time reflecting on the changes we have seen in the industry, the customers we have had the pleasure to work with, and the successes and failures we have seen over the years.
There were a few specific things that kept coming up in these discussions—three factors we could identify that predicted success or failure in security validation projects.