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ARLINGTON, VA. - The Pentagon wants to mandate application and network security services for the military, and later this summer plans to issue guidelines that the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines will need to follow to protect Web-based resources from cyberattacks. |
The Defense Department recently told military brass that computer network defense will be mandatory. It will propose guidelines on use of firewall, intrusion-detection and antivirus technologies that it wants deployed across its sprawling global networks that include three million users at 1,500 locations. The mandate means commercial security products and managed security service providers will have to pass muster by undergoing security certification by the Defense Department. Such certification could force enterprise-class security vendors to improve their wares and could help ease companies' fears about outsourcing sensitive security duties to service providers
OneSecure, which offers managed security services based on integrating Check Point, NetScreen and Cisco products for firewall and intrusion-detection management at its Sunnyvale, Calif., data center, isn't eager to line up for Defense Department inspection.
"I'm not sure CERT is good at intrusion-detection technologies," says Nir Zuk, OneSecure's CTO, though he adds that the OneSecure staff were all trained in incident response at CERT.
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Source: Anti online
