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Responding to the Shadow Broker Vulnerabilities
/by Dr. Mike Lloyd, CTO, RedSealThe latest revelations about firewall vulnerabilities stolen and leaked by the Shadow Brokers are very scary, but not all that new. We learn about the release of a major infrastructure vulnerability about once every six months or so. Organizations that have learned to focus on resilience — knowing their network and how to operate through a […]
RedSeal and ForeScout Federal CTOs Explain how They Jointly Map, Identify and Increase the Resilience of Public Sector Networks
/by Wayne Lloyd, Federal CTO, RedSealLast month, Wallace Sann, the Public Sector CTO for ForeScout, and I sat down to chat about the current state of cybersecurity in the federal government. With ForeScout, government security teams can see devices as they join the network, control them, and orchestrate system-wide responses.
Many of our customers deploy both RedSeal and ForeScout side […]
Network Access Modeling Improves Security, Performance and Uptime for FEMA
/by RedSealWhen disaster strikes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) enterprise network is expanded to include “temporary” mobile data centers that can last from months to years. In this kind of situation, change control, network maps and configurations can get wildly out of control. The security engineers in FEMA’s Security Operation Center (SOC) wanted network visibility. […]
Clear ROI for RedSeal Deployment to Support Vulnerability Assessment Program
/by Wayne Lloyd, Federal CTO, RedSealAn anonymous intelligence agency had a problem.
Their vulnerability assessment program was expensive and sub-optimal. The program was run by two internal employees and 16 contractors. Going to data center to data center, each assessment could take anywhere from 2 months to a full year to conduct.
First, they had to inventory each data center […]
RedSeal Platform Named Most Innovative Cybersecurity Product — USA
/by RedSealRedSeal’s cybersecurity analytics platform has been named: Most Innovative Cybersecurity Product – USA as part of Corporate Vision Magazine’s 2016 Technology Innovator Awards.
Corporate Vision is a quarterly publication for CEOs, directors and other top-level professionals looking to improve the way they manage their operations, staff, technology, business partnerships, and supply chains. Readers use the […]
Getting Federal Agencies Cyber Ready for CSIP
/by Wayne Lloyd, Federal CTO, RedSealThis blog post first appeared in Signal on April 6, 2016
Federal agencies clamor for industry best practices to implement findings resulting from last year’s 30-day “Cybersecurity Sprint,” part of the administration’s broader effort to bolster federal cybersecurity. A new mandatory directive for all civilian government agencies, the Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (CSIP), provides a […]
You Think Your Network Diagram’s Right?
/by Wayne Lloyd, Federal CTO, RedSealFederal agencies are clamoring for information about best practices about to implement the findings of last year’s cybersecurity “sprint.” This new directive, the Cybersecurity Implementation Plan, is mandatory for all federal civilian government agencies. It addresses five issues intended to shore up agency cybersecurity and ensure network resiliency.
So when agencies are done with their […]
Continuous Monitoring + Policy Management Leads to Network Resilience and Successful Command Cyber Readiness Inspections
/by Derek Heese, Director Department of Defense, RedSealOver the past few years, DISA has been moving network infrastructure into Joint Regional Security Stacks.
DISA’s website says, “A joint regional security stack is a suite of equipment that performs firewall functions, intrusion detection and prevention, enterprise management, virtual routing and forwarding (VRF), and provides a host of network security capabilities…security of the network […]
President Obama’s $19 Billion Cyber-Defense Budget and Plan is a Bold and Necessary Step
/by Ray Rothrock, Executive Chairman, RedSeal“The federal government is finally taking bold steps to fulfill what the Constitution says in its preamble – ‘to provide for the common defense,’ in this case, the common cyber defense.
The actions and budget announced today are an important recognition and investment in the defense of the critical information infrastructure of the United States, […]
Closing (and bolting) the back door in ScreenOS
/by Dr. Mike Lloyd, CTO, RedSealby Dr. Mike Lloyd, CTO RedSeal
The recently disclosed back door in Juniper’s ScreenOS software for NetScreen firewalls is an excellent reminder that in security, the first and foremost need is to do the basics well. The details of the vulnerability are complex and interesting (who implanted this, how, and what exactly is involved?), but that is not what […]