In a previous post, I warned everyone that accessing the DoD’s Approved Products List Integrated Tracking System (APLITS) will require a client certificate. Currently, the APLITS system accepts the use of a DoD Common Access Card, or CAC, to access. However, this limits access to the APLITS site to only DoD civilian, military and contractor […]
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Completing the hurdle of DoD Unified Capabilities Testing (UC APL) in a decent amount of time is already a challenge. However, if you have Microsoft Windows workstations (Vista, 7, 8, etc) or Windows Servers (2008, 2008 R2, 2012, etc), then your validation, hardening and testing gets so much more complicated. For the DoD, Windows security
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Actually, the site will require CAC-only (DoD Common Access Card) logins starting 28 March. After that time, no vendors, sponsors or testers can login to the site using a user name and password – ever. What Does This Mean for You?* If you are a DoD contractor, civilian or uniformed military you will not be
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In the DoD there is a strong requirement for 2-factor authentication in the network. For systems and workstations they use a successful implementation with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and a DoD common access card (CAC) which has a client certificate. The user has a PIN; therefore, 2-factor. Nothing like this exists for network devices (routers,
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***Update 7 January 2013: The APLITS website is now back up and serving the DoD APL community***
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***Updated on 14 May 2014 – regarding NET-IPv6-022, See below*** Thousands of network engineers in the DoD out there looking at implementing IPv6 now have to address a few Security and Technical Implementation Guidance (STIG) items that they used to just annotate as “Not Applicable – NA.” Now, IPv6 security is important. If you are
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Fairfax, VA — (August 16, 2012) – NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), a leader in data storage and storage provisioning enterprise and data center products achieved the Defense Department Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL) certification with the help of the Washington DC-based Information Technology firm: Tachyon Dynamics. NetApp received its certification as the first
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We just posted a white paper on our website that discusses the various reasons why getting commercial IT products tested at the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) for DoD Unified Capabilities Requirements (UC) Approved Products List (APL) certification is very important. We also illustrate the advantages it gives product vendors selling in the U.S. Federal IT
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