Cyber Security Awareness: Great Power Competition
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month. For 18 years, Cyber professionals have used this month to raise awareness of the increasing dangers posed by cyber threats to our governments, industries, infrastructure, communities and families. Long past the days of Cold War détente, Great Power Competition between the United States, its allies and its adversaries has reached new levels of technological innovation and potential risk.
Whether in 5G, AI, machine learning or in the cyber domain, we are seeing significant automated attempts to penetrate vulnerable networks grow at alarming rates. Increasingly complex algorithms, military-sponsored (often indirectly) actors and rogue operatives are finding new and previously unforeseen routes to destabilize vital infrastructure and monetary systems and undermine governments.
Overcoming cyber challenges require novel and complex solutions that address the ever-evolving threat landscape. Unfortunately, due to slow-moving bureaucracies, political segmentation and a lack of understanding of this new, evolving threat, innovation in the cybersecurity domain has been seriously lagging, with potentially devastating consequences.
Fortunately, at Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), our team of cybersecurity experts and engineers are thinking ahead to the challenges we face today and in years to come. With the expanding space frontier, including the development of U.S. Space Force, our focus on innovative solutions across all domains requires us to be agile and proactive in our approach to identifying high Technology Readiness Level (TRL) capabilities to close the technological gap and lay the foundations for future innovation.
SNC’s Binary Armor® family of cybersecurity solutions is filling this gap, including for our Department of Defense (DOD) customers. As a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) cybersecurity tool used to provide peace of mind to the utilities acting as the backbone of our way of life, Binary Armor is a tested, validated and actively deployed cyber-security tool.
Recently, Binary Armor reached a new milestone in its development when it was added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Approved Products List (APL) as a Bound F device. Binary Armor also holds a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) certification, has FIPS 140-2 encryption and meets Common Criteria (CC).
At SNC, we believe in a robust approach to data and information security, which is why we also have an active Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC) known as a NOC/SOC. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, our cybersecurity analysts and data scientists are working to secure critical DOD information to protect our frontline heroes.
Catching up to our adversaries in the Great Power Competition is a monumental task, but one we can achieve with a forward-looking, adaptive approach to solving existing and anticipated threats. At every test, Binary Armor is proving to be the cutting-edge, effective tool needed to meet the challenges of this moment, protect the systems and infrastructures that we rely on and continue advancing U.S. national security into the future.
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