IT Security

Stonesoft announced on Feb. 8 that its firewall/VPN product family has received the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+) certification, an international security standard for IT security products. The EAL4+ is the highest security standard for commercial products and indicates that the products are rigorously engineered to a high degree of quality, noted a company press release issued on Feb. 8.

Lockheed Martin Corp. and Cleversafe, Inc. have formed a new technology alliance that will facilitate collaboration between the two companies to support a new level of storage capacity beyond traditional capabilities.

These secure, distributed storage Cloud offerings will enhance the performance of active archive, data security, still imagery, full motion video (FMV), SharePoint storage enhancement and distributed computing.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent pleaded guilty to all 21 counts accusing her of leaking sensitive government information to relatives involved in drug trafficking.

According to a statement by the FBI on Jan. 6, Jovana Deas, 33, of Rio Rico, AZ, admitted to abusing her position as an HSI special agent to illegally obtain and disseminate government documents classified as "Official Use Only."

McAfee and the Security & Defence Agenda, a Brussels-based security and defense policy forum, revealed on Jan. 30 the findings from a new report, Cyber-security: The Vexed Question of Global Rules, that paints a global snapshot of current thinking about the cyber-threat, identifies measures that should be taken to defend against them, and assesses the way ahead.

The agency responsible for developing new technology for the Department of Defense is looking to the public for new ideas on how to power computers that control reconnaissance, surveillance and intelligence operations.

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) said computer power limitations, said are beginning to cramp computational capabilities that enable military systems. It said computational capabilities are increasingly limited by power requirements and constraints on heat dissipation.

The U.S. Secret Service is planning to procure dozens of UltraKits, which contain a complete family of UltraBlock hardware “write blockers,” along with adapters and connectors, which can be used to acquire a forensically sound image of virtually any hard drive or storage device.

Meadowgate Technologies, LLC, of Trenton, NJ, tried to sell desktop and tablet computers to TSA, but was beaten by a competitor, NCS Technologies Incorporated, of Gainesville, VA. After Meadowgate protested TSA’s award to its rival, arguing that the agency’s evaluation of NCS’s past performance was improper, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reviewed the matter and ultimately threw out Meadowgate’s protest.

BridgePoint Systems, a provider of smart card readers and enrollment software for Physical Access Control Systems (PACs), announced on Jan. 24 that the Neal Smith Federal Building in Des Moines, IA, has implemented its TrustAlert PACS (formerly called TrustZone PACS).

BridgePoint and its partner, EmbarkIT, installed the new system ahead of schedule and within the facility’s budget parameters, says a news release issued by BridgePoint on Jan. 24.