Tachyon Dynamics trains today’s IT Professionals in real-world environments with skills needed to properly implement and manage an IPv6 infrastructure.  With information relating to specific knowledge needed for your IPv6 project, our training classes are pointed and direct.  Our instructors design, build, and maintain IPv6 networks every day, so you get real-world experience and knowledgeable lessons learned, minimizing mistakes, and helping you to implement a solid IPv6 infrastructure.  Our training program includes:

• Extensive IPv6 content and courseware
• Courseware (books and practice guides) for reference during and after the course
• Comprehensive and hands-on labs with real Cisco routers and real Windows Servers (Server 2008, R2)

Our curriculum is broken down into four modules in a two-day course.  Our detailed course description can be found below:

• IPv6 Overview: Basic to highly technical protocol information and familiarity with IPv6
• IPv6 for Network Engineers: Detailed technical knowledge and hands-on lab work for network engineers focusing on Cisco routing and switching environments.
• IPv6 for Server/Systems Engineers: Basic to highly technical knowledge and hands-on lab work for systems engineers focused on Microsoft Active Directory and Server 2008 R2 environment.
• IPv6 for Information Assurance (IA) and Cyber Security Professionals: Basic to highly technical knowledge and hands-on lab work for IA professionals focused on IPv6 threats and vulnerabilities as well as DoD-specific IPv6 requirements and regulations.

Tachyon Dynamics provides the highest level of enterprise systems and network design/engineering using the Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology, also known as the “waterfall” method, and the best of stakeholder interactions included in the “Agile” method.  This hybrid model has enabled Tachyon Dynamics to provide its customers with superior and highly reliable IT infrastructures, all while keeping the customers completely involved throughout the entire process.

Our engineers develop enterprise solutions on a regular basis for large government agencies, and through our internal quality assurance program, vet those solutions in order to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.  This process allows each solution to be fitted for each environment, yet still providing the highest level of solutions possible.

Tachyon Dynamics provides real-world solutions, re-purposing equipment if possible, so your organization can “phase out” End of Life (EoL) equipment, minimizing out of budget expenses.  In today’s market, with budgets decreasing annually, we provide the best value solution with the most cost-effective utilization of your current IT expenditures.

• building systems using any Operating System
• hardening OS images from Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012 R2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Defense Information Systems (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• Designing and engineering a converged hypervisor system using Vmware, OpenStack, KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

The term “cloud” has many meanings and definitions.  At Tachyon Dynamics we mean one thing: moving your physical and bulky servers to a private enterprise cloud using the most cutting edge virtualization solutions from Linux KVM, Cisco, Open Stack, VMware and Citrix/Xen.  The push in the U.S Government (according to the previous CIO Vivek Kundra in the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy) has been to make IT more agile and less expensive.  The U.S. Government believes that this can result in a huge savings:

Tachyon Dynamics has developed numerous cloud solutions and provides cloud services such as:

• Seamlessly migrating your physical servers to a highly available and cost saving virtual infrastructure
• Provide a real-time Return on Investment (ROI) analysis of what you are saving in infrastructure costs, space, power and resources
• Provide a charge-back system to show managers/CIOs the current utilization of their cloud resources by specific users/systems.
• Provide a self-service, web-based, customer-facing portal that is integrated in the organization’s current Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) workflow and change management process.
• Provide a public, private, or hybrid cloud strategy.
• Design a public cloud infrastructure for public-facing systems and applications with some of the world’s leading commercial cloud solutions companies.
• Integrate leading cloud-based networking technologies like Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization into private cloud solutions.

However, the cloud technology isn’t the only consideration in play – operations and management (O&M) are even more important.  At Tachyon Dynamics we help potential public/private cloud clients:

• Develop roles and responsibilities for the framework around “who does what” in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
• Build detailed concepts of operations tying in network monitoring with software-defined networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) tools

Tachyon Dynamics provides the most cutting edge and highly-available private enterprise cloud solutions in the U.S. Federal and DoD marketplace.  Let us be your cloud integrator today!

Tachyon Dynamics’ highly-qualified network engineers provide TCP/IP network engineering services, as well as architecture/design, planning, testing, implementation, and maintenance support.  Our network engineers have experience in the following emerging technologies:

• Cisco’s Virtual Switching System (VSS)
• Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
• MPLS over DMVPN (2547oDMVPN)
• Multi-vendor switching and routing interoperability (Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, HP/ProCurve, Mellanox, and Cumulus Linux)
• IPv6 and IPv4 routing protocols (using EIGRP, OSPFv3 AF, BGP4+ and IS-IS)
• Cloud provisioning integration with Cisco’s Nexus/UCS and VMWare NSX (including SDN, vPC, VDC, and FEX)
• Effective 802.1x and Network Access Control (NAC) deployment scenarios
• Enterprise Wireless LAN WLAN) Deployments
• DoD-specific and compliant Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) implementations using certified reverse web proxies (RWP) and Web Application Firewalls (WAF)
• DoD-specific and FEDRAMP Public cloud installations using Amazon AWS GovCloud and Azure PaaS
• Multifactor (Two-Factor) Authentication Solution development using RSA SecurID and Yubikey
• Secure, efficient, and reliable remote access Virtual Private Network (VPN) installations using Pulse Secure and OpenVPN technologies
• DoD-compliant Web Content Filtering (WCF) deployments using Blue Coat, Dansgaurdian, and Squid technologies
• First-hand experience with numerous Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Information Environment (JIE) programs like: Joint Regional Security Stack (JRSS), Installation Processing Nodes (IPN), and Special Purpose Processing Nodes (SPPN)

Tachyon Dynamics provides superior consulting services to hundreds of commercial IT equipment vendors in order to assist them in achieving certification on the U.S. Department of Defense Information Network  Approved Products List (DoDIN APL).  With the DoD’s new push towards a converged and joint IT equipment certification, there is an opportunity for commercial equipment vendors to get their IT products certified in an easy and cost-effective manner.

Navigating this process for inexperienced vendors can be confusing and daunting.  This is where we come in.  Tachyon Dynamics has engineers on staff that has worked at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) and are very familiar with the current process and test strategies.  We can help your commercial IT equipment company get your foot in the door and get your valued and desired IT products in the hands of the U.S.  Military soon!  Just get in touch with us now!

Given the current INFOSEC and budget conditions in the US Government, US corporations and the DoD, need a reliable, secure and inexpensive two-factor authentication system.  Current providers like EMC’s RSA SecurID have proven security issues and have nearly crippled IT enterprise budgets at the same time.  The time has come to provide a more secure and inexpensive solution.

At Tachyon Dynamics, we have built, secured, tested and hardened a robust, inexpensive, and highly flexible two-factor authentication solution introduced by Yubico called TDIYubiServ.  Users authenticate using something they know (username/password) and something they have (hardware token called Yubikey).  The Yubikey is a USB token-based One Time Password (OTP) device.  Tachyon Dynamics customized the platform available to all of our previous, current and future clients.  The Tachyon Dynamics TDIYubiServ system has been hardened by utilizing DoD Secure Technical Implementation Guidance (STIG) and a secure virtualized implementation of RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.x, and numerous different authentication clients/servers embedded (TACACS+, RADIUS, Windows Active Directory, or local accounts).

The difference with TDIYubiServ from others?

• TDIYubiServ is fully hardened in compliance with the DISA Red Hat Enterprise Linux Secure Technical Implementation Guide (STIG)

• TDIYubiServ is one of the few authentication servers certified for DoD use and purchase on the DoD Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL) Approved Products Lists (APL)
• TDIYubiServ contains numerous mechanisms to interface with your infrastructure devices and systems like: a FreeRADIUS server (the Linux RADIUS server), the Yubico-validation server, a tac_plus server (the Linux TACACS+ server), a Windows active directory/Kerberos client, a RADIUS client using pam_radius, and local Linux accounts managed through the local PAM database.

Defense Federal Acquisition Requirement (DFAR) and NIST 800-171 Compliance

TDIYubiServ, when properly implemented in accordance with the DoD’s Military Unique Deployment Guide, can help your network achieve compliance with the DFAR mandates, NIST 800-171, and NIST 800-53 controls for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).  See the list of controls that TDIYubiServ can help your organization comply with here:

• IA-1: Identification and Authentication Policy and Procedures
• IA-2: User Identification and Authentication
• IA-5: Authenticator Management
• IA-6: Authenticator Feedback
• IA-7: Cryptographic Module Authentication (when in FIPS 140-2 Mode)
• IA-8: Identification and Authentication (Non-Organizational Users)
• AC-2: Account Management
• AC-3: Access Enforcement
• AC-5: Separation of Duties
• AC-6: Least Privilege
• AC-7: Unsuccessful Login Attempts
• AC-14: Permitted Actions without Identification or Authentication

Please get in touch with us as we can help in any of your future multifactor authentication implementations: Contact us today!