**Update: As of 17 Feb 2023, (2) new manufacturers and (6) new FIPS 140-3 modules have been certified For vendors offering capability to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the use of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) validated cryptography can be a make or break feature within their products. Active FIPS certification for all […]
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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 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). You can take a look at
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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 for Standards and Technology (NIST) and more specifically the Cryptographic Module Validation
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FIPS 140-1 and FIPS 140-2 had quite a bit of longevity. However, FIPS 140-3 is almost here. Based on previous NIST standards development processes, the 140-3 standard will most likely have a publication date of a year from now. So sometime in February/March 2014, FIPS 140-3 will be the dominate federal crypto module certification. Not
FIPS 140-3 is Coming: Time to Plan Read More »
Well, today is the day, or the last day I should say. At midnight tonight, the US Government will have shut the books on yet another Fiscal Year. Although, it’s not finances that has the technology industry glued to government tech news; it’s IPv6 adoption. By the end of FY 2012, the entire US Government
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Well, it is now roughly four months until the U.S. Federal Government is supposed to have its publicly-facing network services enabled for IPv6 by 30 September 2012 according to the White House directive in 2010. More specifically: Upgrade public/external facing servers and services (e.g. web, email, DNS, ISP services, etc) to operationally use native IPv6
US Government IPv6 Enablement – 4-month Status Check Read More »