Insights & Articles

Jeremy Duncan • November 24, 2019

IPv6-only Your Network: Cheap and Easy

The new trend for IPv6 migrations lately is going fully to IPv6, or IPv6-only. This means that your transition plan is IPv4 one day, and then you change and roll-out a single IP stack: to IPv6. You may be thinking, "but how is that possible considering most of the Internet is…

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Jeremy Duncan • June 13, 2019

IPv6 Enabled Enterprises Workshop

The National Cybersecurity Center Center of Excellence (NCCoE) hosted a great IPv6 workshop today. Spectacular and substantive discussion packed into a morning workshop on the stae of IPv6 deployment in the enterprise network. The workshop was MCed by Doug Montgomery from the…

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Jeremy Duncan • September 18, 2018

Simple Python for Network Engineers

If you are a network engineer in 2018, and still think that your career is safe being a Putty Bandit (AKA console monkey) for the foreseeable future, then you are sorely mistaken. In fact, Python is the language (part scripting, part programming) that will be automating your job…

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Jeremy Duncan • January 2, 2018

Multifactor Authentication Webinar and Slides

On 28 Dec 2017, Jeremy Duncan, from Tachyon Dynamics, gave a webinar on "Multifactor Authentication Challenges." Below is the recording and slides from the event. Thanks for all the questions and for Cover6 for hosting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6e9CEDQyko Here's the…

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Jeremy Duncan • April 4, 2017

Multi-factor Authentication Now a CAT 1 in DoD

**Update: 23 April 2021 - MFA text requirement change** The time finally came for multifactor authentication in DoD. The DoD finally put their feet down on securing account access. For all devices/products coming into DoD (especially through DoDIN testing), will be held to…

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Jeremy Duncan • November 30, 2016

Pulse Secure UC APL Certified

LORTON, VA – Washington DC-based Information Technology firm, and leading DoD UC APL consulting company, Tachyon Dynamics partnered with Pulse Secure , a leading provider of secure access and mobile security solutions to deliver key product certifications. All software and…

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Jeremy Duncan • August 5, 2016

Tachyon Dynamics Helps PCR Obtain UC APL Certification

LORTON, VA – Washington DC-based Information Technology firm, and leading DoD UC APL consulting company, Tachyon Dynamics aided Professional Computing Resources (PCR) , a developer of enterprise management tools, in receiving the DoD UC APL certification for the PCR-360…

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Jeremy Duncan • May 18, 2016

Windows IIS Server and a DoD Login Banner

*updated 22 July 2021* A requirement for all DoD-facing systems on a network is to have a notice and consent banner. This is outlined specifically in the DoD memorandum " Policy on Use of Department of Defense (DoD) Information Systems-Standard Consent Banner and User Agreemen…

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Jeremy Duncan • January 26, 2016

NIST FIPS 140-2 RNG Transition Affecting UC APL

For those product vendors that have been able to get listed and certified on the DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL) , there is a prerequisite certification required called FIPS 140-2. FIPS 140-2 is a certification program managed by the National Institute…

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Jeremy Duncan • December 18, 2015

Mellanox Receives UC APL Certification

LORTON, VA - Washington DC-based Information Technology firm, and leading DoD UC APL consulting company, Tachyon Dynamics , helped high-throughput 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet/Infiniband networking vendor, Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX ) receive the DoD UC APL certification…

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