All information relevant to Security Certifications
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has approved $1.8 billion in funding to prevent cybersecurity attacks and protect critical infrastructure. The House Appropriations Subcommittee approved the bill last week in order to support the National Protection and …
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), the governing body of Common Criteria in Canada, has officially stated they will only accept Protection Profile (PP) based evaluations starting in September of 2017. Furthermore, they have stated that they …
NIST has released draft Special Publication (SP) 800-184, titled “Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery” – This draft is open to public comment until July, 11th, 2016 “The purpose of this document is to support federal agencies …
CMVP has new guidelines which went live last month via the release of Implementation Guidance (G.16). This update will affect product vendors that have not taken proper precautions with project management related to their FIPS 140-2 validations. During …
In 2013, the Defense Informations Systems Agency (DISA) developed an on-premise cloud solution for the DoD – milCloud 1.0. DISA continues to operate and manage this solution, but since its inception, cloud based services have …
Over the past two months Corsec has traveled from Seoul, Korea to Ontario, Canada in order to attend security certification events such as the Common Criteria Users Forum (CCUF), and the International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC). The discussions …
NIST Releases “Best Practices Guide for Personal Identity Verification (PIV)-enabled Privileged Access” In response to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan, NIST has released their best practices guide for Personal Identity Verification …
Corsec recently attended the Cybersecurity Innovation Summit at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. This event created a platform for discussions on the recent advancements in cybersecurity and the evolving challenges security experts face. Among those attending, were members of …
Last week, the Department of Defense (DOD) released an update to the Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG) through the Chief Information Office and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This update provides guidance …
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that the Pentagon would be spending an additional $900 million in 2017 to enhance cyber defense measures. This comes after last years hack of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), resulting …
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the fourth revision of their Internal Report covering SCAP Version 1.2 Validation Program Test Requirements. SCAP or the “Security Content Automation Protocol” is …
In addition to the new vulnerabilities identified in January of this year, OpenSSL has once again had to release a slew of patches to correct problematic areas, which could ultimately affect your FIPS validation, Common Criteria …
Last month NIST released a draft publication on sources of Entropy and randomness in protecting sensitive data. The draft “Special Publication 800-90B, Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation”, is intended to help product vendors …
RSA is on the horizon and everyone is getting excited. Each year product vendors convene to discuss security and how we will protect our digital world. But, with so much going on, it becomes difficult …
As cyber security risks continue to grow, a number of industries are starting to take steps to ensure secured protection of products. Health Care has always been an area of concern given the sensitive nature of …
With the military’s love of acronyms and the many and varied requirement definitions, understanding how to break into Department of Defense (DoD) sales can be a daunting proposition. How do these DoD and international requirements …
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 …
Corsec will be in San Diego, CA for the annual AFCEA WEST conference. “The premier naval conference and exposition on the West Coast, WEST is now in its 26th year of bringing military and industry …
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 …
As previously mentioned, CMVP announced that all FIPS 140-2 validations that use Random Number Generators (RNG), as well as certifications that use both the NIST 800-90A DRBG and RNG will be required to re-validate, otherwise, they will …